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VRS MK3 - Exhaust novice
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to MasterTom's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Just as an aside - if the fake engine noise is undesirable, the unit that makes the noise is easy to disconnect. It is located under the plastic scuttle panel beneath the windscreen wipers. Do a search on here for a 'how to', It's easy to do, takes about 10 minutes. It's the first thing I did to mine when I got it. Cheers! -
Heated Windscreen Failing
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to JD52's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Mine looks exactly the same as yours. It's not a fault, that's normal. -
Is this a special edition of some kind
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to silver50's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
No worries! Yes, my vrs is 2014 with a black pack. Cheers! -
Is this a special edition of some kind
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to silver50's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Looks to me like a standard car with the factory 'black pack' option. Wheels have been painted / powder coated, and the lower door trims are available from Kopacek / SUperskoda. HTH! -
Internal lights issue
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to thisischeese's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Are there maybe resistors contained within those plugs? -
OE / TRW rear disc distress :)
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to Ray Luxury-Yacht's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
I did get the message, yes haha! Ok so spent a nice afternoon fitting my new Brembos. Apart from the swines of hidden M14 bolts holding on the carriers, it was all pretty easy to do on the driveway. The sliding pins were all fine, but I cleaned them out and re-greased them anyway. Calipers in nice condition, no signs of seizure, pistons wound back nice and easy. The Brembo parts are visibly better quality than the OE stuff in my opinion. One thing which is nice is that there is like a hammered metal finish grey paint on the parts of the disc which aren't contact surfaces. So they shouldn't corrode. Pedal came up nicely after an hour or so's driving. Looking at the contact surfaces now, it appears the pads have bedded in nicely both sides. Cost for the Brembo discs and pads from Euros was £138 all in. Pretty good I thought. Best news of all was she flew through the MOT today at the main stealers. They didn't make any comments at all. So I'm well happy. Hope this info helps others. Cheers! ETA: You get replacement slider pin bolts and even the little screws which hold the discs on with the Brembos too... -
Black letters for rear of Octavia
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to Octavia8's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Sure. Here: https://www.kopacek.com/skoda/octavia-iii/emblems//2?f=o:price- -
OE / TRW rear disc distress :)
Ray Luxury-Yacht posted a topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Heya. I know the OE rear brakes are known for being a bit rubbish, but... Two years ago my 2014 VRS was in for an MOT at the main stealer. Brakes looked ok to me before presenting the car, but a phone call came to say it will fail on excess corrosion to the rear discs. Asked for £220 to replace, managed to haggle that down to £200. This was the second set the car was on, so they fitted a third set. It's done 60k. Anyway this week, with the MOT looming, the rear discs looked a bit flaky, so I cracked the wheels off to give them a good looking over. Christ, what a horror show! The outsides looked a wee bit ropey, but the inner faces? Resembled well-used boat anchors. Worse still, the pads were only contacting about 15mm in the very centre of the swept area. The rest of the discs were crusty, with pitting and actual holes. After just 24 months and 10,000 miles. Shocking. Apart from the poor quality, any ideas why the inner faces of the discs start to lose contact with the pads top and bottom? The calipers are in great condition. After giving them a clean, they are spot on. Was easy to wind the pistons back in. No sign of split rubber boots. And the floating pins on the carrier were equally good. Boots fine, lots of grease inside. nice shiny pins, no stiction. So I'm at a bit of a loss to explain why this is happening? Anyway fitted some nice Brembos now. They look to be better quality than the stock TRWs, but time will tell I guess. -
Hello everyone, I hope you're all well. I bought my 2014 VRS petrol from Skoda Coventry in 2016, with just 13,000 miles. Since then, she's been serviced at Skoda main dealers in the South where I live. I find main dealer prices to be reasonable, plus I like having a decent courtesy car etc. Also, I thought it would be useful to have FSSH in case of any problems. Having now covered 60,000 miles, she was in for a service last week. The tech noted that the water pump / thermostat housing was weeping. I authorised a replacement, because I had to have the car back, and I wouldn't want to risk a catastrophic failure, obviously. The bill was circa £900. I asked that as the car had only 60k on the clock, and had a full Skoda service history, if there might be some goodwill. They refused, saying that basically nothing over five years old is eligible. They gave me a printout of the 'computer says no' application they did. Having done some research, I feel a little disappointed, because as we can see, the original part is prone to failure, and the new part is revised to avoid the issue. Hence, it's a fault known by Skoda. So, I wonder if anyone might help me, as I am thinking about writing to Skoda UK to ask? Has anyone done that, and been successful? I'd be really grateful for your assistance. Thanks all!
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Skoda octavia 2013
Ray Luxury-Yacht replied to Keypurr's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
Hiya, good purchase, and welcome! These early screens did suffer from various issues, the fix is to take the car to a main dealer for a firmware update. The latest version seems to have cured most of the problems. The update takes quite a while though, and obviously will cost you a few quid at main dealer prices! Hope this helps, and post up some pics of your new car when you get time!