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Cheers Travs, it was bizarre but we got there in the end and I have a bit more room in the garage!

Delighted that it ends with an old 'Briskoda friend'

Done!!!

Spare wheel found and in care - see change to original post to make free As a result it is pick up from GU16 only with no options for couriers etc as I have wasted too much time on this already

Now gone

No problem, PM sent

Yes, that's the one or similar, Travs To be honest, as a spare wheel, I really don't mind if someone found a wheel in good/reasonable condition as long as it has a tyre in good condition too or a bit of a battered one and get an £80 professional refurb or whatever. I thought that is how anyone would approach this crazy near give-away on my part! I spent ages trying to work up the courage to stretch to the cost of 4 reputable after-market alloys plus the cost of quality tyres (which these wheels still have with plenty of tread)...yet here we are! Go figure 🤷‍♂️ I think that I will give them a wash to see if that helps as they will clean up well - it was a bit lazy of me not too in the first place

Yes, still here!

You are spot on Ian - it is an IHI IS20 turbo!! I must have been in a daydream. As I recall, I think it was a lady friend of yours who had the KO3 from my previous VRS (which really was a KO3 😜) Description above now changed to read IS20 - thanks for spotting! 👍

Hello Ian - great to hear from you again; it has been a long time!! The idea is for a bit of a clear-out so just looking for one wheel/tyre but a single Zenith in any colour would be ideal!

IHI IS20 factory turbo taken off of a 2012 FL Octavia VRS TSI when new with only 400 miles on the clock. It is therefore in mint condition. As title suggests, free to anyone prepared to pick up in person. How you do that is up to you. I will not be driving it anywhere or organising a courier etc.

***NOW SOURCED MY OWN SPARE WHEEL SO FREE TO ANYONE WHO CAN PICK UP FROM GU16 THIS WEEKEND OR THEY ARE GOING TO DUMPS**** I CANT BELIEVE THAT EBAY IS FULL OF AFTERMARKET ALLOYS IN WAY WORSE CONDITION WITHOUT NEAR PERFECT PERFORMANCE SUMMER TYRES FOR £600++ AND I STILL HAVE THESE...WOULD IT BE EASIER IF I PUT A PRICE ON INSTEAD OF...ERRR....FREE!!!!!??? Mrs Muckipup is demanding that I clear out my garage. As a result I am pretty much giving away the above (loved but no longer needed) wheels and tyres in exchange for a single OEM Zenith alloy that I can use as a full-sized spare. Spigot rings for standard VAG included and you can have the 2mm and 5mm spacers that I used just for looks if you want. These wheels will easily clear the bigger S3 calipers and my own Brembo calipers if you have those. Please note that a Neptune alloy is of no use to me as it will not clear my brakes - will consider another 18" wheel/tyre in good condition if spoke design is proven to clear bigger calipers.. All I ask in exchange is a wheel in tyre in excellent condition with full or near full tread...no bashed-up wheel salvaged from a scrapyard, thanks. I think that is reasonable to ask given that I am giving away about £1500 worth of wheels and tyres when new and is therefore non-negotiable. I will want to see a picture showing condition of the wheel and tyre please. The other non-negotiable is that the new owner collects from the GU16 area - how you do that is up to you but I will not be driving them anywhere myself and will not be organising a courier myself etc. You are free to use your own courier if you take care of all logistics and costs. You can follow the story behind these wheels here: There are a few minor scuffs as would be expected and the pictures below show the worst of it it on a single wheel...and yes, they could do with a wash! The 4th wheel is not in the picture as it is in my car as the spare but it is in great condition. The key thing here is that the replacement must be in great condition and, as you may have worked out, I don't want any trouble or "...I know you said....but can you drive them up to my mate in Aberdeen" or any nonsense like that ;0) It will be the first person to collect rather than the first person to say that they want them (but then never appear) that will get them. Cheers Please see my other post for a near new KO3 turbo and a spacesaver wheel giveaway.

****SOLVED**** I gave up and took the car to an auto-electrician who solved the problem in minutes! The problem was all about the bluetooth system for the phone. Although I have had the car from new and ordered with bluetooth, I guess the dealer could access an identical car to my order minus the bluetooth and therefore added the VAG bluetooth themselves with the loom and under-seat module (or maybe that is factory standard??). Given that the Android unit had bluetooth built in, I disconnected the under-seat bluetooth module to keep things simple (ahem 😒) and put it to the back of my mind. When I disconnected the quadlock, I also found other wiring leading out of it and when I followed the wiring with my chubby hands down the back of the recess and to the right, I found a 'female' mirrored connector that did nothing. I therefore ignored it and just connected the male quadlock to the back of the unit with all the results in my post above - no power, no, ground, nothing! The auto-electrician put his hand down the back of the recess and, to my surprise, found....another male quadlock that my chubby hands didn't find down to the left hand side! I effectively had 3 of these connectors and this newly found quadlock was the 'factory standard' quadlock. I had no idea that it was there and, even if I did, with it out of reach, I would have assumed that what I did find was just an extension of that I had to hand with some wiring for bluetooth into the old Bolero...wrong! The auto-electrician plugged the newly found connector and everything booted up perfectly. He then did me the favour of simply cutting off the surplus 'horseshoe' with the additional male and female quadlocks off and taped up the bare ends. I guess that, by disconnecting the under-seat bluetooth module, it was ahead in the whole infotainment circuitry and cut off everything to these 'additional' quad locks (although, now that they have been chopped off, I can't test that). Below is a picture of what I am talking about with the chopped-off quadlock 'horseshoe' - behind it you can just about see the proper quadlock going in to the unit and the taped-up redundant wires that went in to it. I must have searched for hours on VAG based forums and beyond and never saw any other description of this. Needless to say, I feel like one of those humiliated cartoon characters where the jack ass ears grow out of their head! 😳

Thanks J.R. I saw some of your other posts and advice on Android head units and was hoping that you would spot this. 😁 Can you think of any reason why the unit would not power up in the first place when it is supposed to be fully compatible and then, when putting the (previously healthy) Bolero back as before that would not power up? I could not detect any 12v supply to the quadlock but have powered up a working HU by direct connection to the fusebox but no sound like the factory amplifier (though didn't think there was one with Bolero) was not activated or something. There is no canbus input in to the HU even powered up on-the-fly with climatronic, doors or factory reverse sensors not registering even although it is advertised as also being plug and play. I found the Address 19 Can Gateway 01305 Databus for infotainment - 004 No signal/communication error (+ Address 56 Radio Cannot be reached) after this even with the Bolero put back and don't know how to fix that. It's like the HU isn't even there - no input to nor output of any kind from the quadlock connector!

No, the only thing under the seat is the OEM bluetooth module which I have disconnected