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You can, I ran 8s in mine for a while. Only thing you have to remember is making sure the door trim fits back on. Mine ended up looking rather messy as i had to keep adjusting them
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Im looking to replace my Boot seal. I know Skoda wont give me a part number so wondering if anyone knows the part number for the boot seal on a mk2 pre facelift hatchback. Ive been looking and found 1Z5 827 705 A but I believe this is for the estate.
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Elderly Car - Keep or Change
ryan-re replied to BorderCollie's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
My VRS is 2006 with 146k on the clock. I made my mind up last year that I will keep it until I absolutely have to replace it. Using the VRS as an example. Id have to spend 10-12k to get something newer (mk3) with similar spec. Ive had the turbo rebuilt as the actuator ceased due to part of the EGR cooler getting wedged in it. Bar that the car has been faultless for the 80k ive had it. -
Halogen, Xenons, Bi-xenons?
ryan-re replied to HarleQuinn's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
The Osram Xenarc are terrible. I bought some a while back and changed them very quickly. I use Philips Xtreme Vision Gen2 and they are very good. The new nightbreaker Laser's are rated to be even better. Colour temp is the light spectrum. 5k is white. As you go above this you go to blue then eventually purple. As you go above it the amount of useable light reduces. As you go below 5k you get yellower light. Halogen is around 2.5-3k. The blue you see on halogen bulbs is there to remove part of the spectrum to give the illusion of white light, infact its just less light and the white part of the spectrum is visible. Proper xenon bulbs should last 10 years or more. My bulbs were 8 or 9 years old when I changed but if i wanted to there was life left in them. -
Also, if you do have a fl vrs make sure you are aware of this when an MOT tester says your sidelights dont work
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Aftermarket stereo with climate control
ryan-re replied to kirkynut's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
Its takes the data signal from the canbus input and changes it into a switched live. -
If someone has run led's or hids in your car previously they may have burned the projector bowls. This reduces output so those running HID's or LED's in halogen projectors will be slowly damaging the lights. This could be why your Nightbreakers dont appear as good as they previously did. You will also need to know a friendly MOT tester as if they go by the book anything other than Halogen in a Halogen designed headlamp is a fail.
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Aftermarket stereo with climate control
ryan-re replied to kirkynut's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
The cable is available from Connects2. Its a quad block iso adaptor which comes with a box that gives you a switches live. Saves having to run extra cables etc -
Why is my MK2 useless in the snow compared to the MK1?
ryan-re replied to J.R.'s topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
It was the main carpark. This was a few years ago, im not talking about now or anything. Definetely around 6" up there when I got there. The snow was coming down quick as even with a hot engine it was managing to cover the car very quickly. We stayed there for 5 minutes and decided to go lol -
Why is my MK2 useless in the snow compared to the MK1?
ryan-re replied to J.R.'s topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
I took my VRS up the cairngornes when there was 6"+ of snow when I got to the top. Sencible driving and I had no problems with Goodyear efficent Grips. Id say your issue is simply your are expecting too much from your normal road tyres and best to go for Winter tyres if you feel you will have a lot of snow. -
AH is not really very useful in car batteries as its the number of amps the battery can give out in 1hour (also shown in other time periods aswell). CCA is cold cranking amps, thats what is important for starting the car. especially for diesels. The Octavia VRS does have a small battery really as standard (only a 60ah and 600cca iirc). Upgrading this will help with starting but unless you have extra drain on the battery upgrading it is a waste of time. They have AGM batteries as standard, not Lead Acid (i know its a form of lead acid but they still considered 2 different types). Which is far superior anyway. Batteries are only really given a 5 year life expectancy now, unless you spend a fortune on a high end battery.
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As mentioned above, the build is definetly faulty. The problem is known as "pinking". Most likely a manufacturing defect. I used the xenarc's and wasnt very happy with the so I upgraded to Philips xtreme vision D1s. Certainly an improvement. Fitting the bulbs wont be an issue, you have to remove the light from the car so it wont be connected. They are designed to make changing the bulb pretty easy to reduce risk of damaging the bulb.
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Aftermarket Head Unit Recommendations
ryan-re replied to EH75's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
Something like the Columbus wont be at the bottom of the scale BUT nor would it be rated as high quality. It will still have a low output built in amp, something like 10w per channel. They do this because if the columbus had a great amp they wouldnt see the canton add-on which has an additional amp. Ive also listened to canton, bose, B&O, Dynaudio setups in vag cars and tbh the only half decent one was the B&O in the current A4. I'd still have points such as the centre speaker not doing anything so the stage was still focused to the site you are sat on. Pioneer and Alpine I believe do pure units now. Pioneer do a unit which you and physically attach your phone to and install an app on your phone to run the headunit -
Aftermarket Head Unit Recommendations
ryan-re replied to EH75's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
A higher quality source unit WILL sound better than a cheap one. That is a fact -
Imperial have a Hunter setup. Kwick Fit in Devizes also have one and know how to use it. Kwick Fit in chippenham have one but dont have a clue what they are doing. Cost wise, its worth while paying the £99 for a kwick fit package as you get the initial setup then more adjustments for the following year without charge. Ive never actually been told "you dont have any adjustments left" so i guess they dont actually note it down. This covers all kwick fit stores throughout the country.