Im gouki

Been off the forum for a while as i have moved on. It's been a good few years with my Skoda octavia mk2 2.0 petrol vrs. Forum members have been cool and a fun set of people to chat with.A good general spread of different cars. Loved my modded VRS , but it was time to move on. Wanted to stay with Skoda but nothing came within my price range to stay. Fancied a bigger engined car either a V6 or a V8. The Suberb was the top of my list , but the 4x4 variants were out of my price bracket. Also the dreaded road tax is really high. So i have moved onto pastures new. Managed to bag myself a Audi A8 4.2 petrol V8 2004 vintage. So still in the v.a.g group. Still miss the vrs ability to surprise and out handle most cars in it's class , but the new car is a bit of a beast and my first audi since my old 90 quattro from back in days. Hoping to attened the this years v.a.g tuner show , so hopefully will some of you there ...take care. It's been fun. :clap:

Loved the all black grill , but think mine needed something to break up the blackness a bit. But who knows, the year is young.

Now it looks like this.

Try mad motors. At the time the only place that sold it was ebay. http://www.madmotors.co.uk/concept-rs-skoda-octavia-mk2-rs-04-pre-facelift-front-splitter-abs-plastic.html . This is the same as mine from the picture and a few quid cheaper too. Unfortunately mine is now gone. The front lip proved too low for where I live and after a while leaving certain supermarkets speed bumps and such ....it looked like an animal was chewing it. Although it's ABS had to change mine unfortunately to the seat cupra r version that has been used by everyone . Was tempted by another one , but have to be practical. Good luck , already miss mine.

Sometimes its good to go with what you feel/like rather than what everyone else thinks , otherwise we would all drive clones of each others cars. Go for it.

I like it , already have the lower rear one. Wondered what it would look like on. Thing is do you want it subtle or obvious ? My car is black so it would kind of subtle ....perhaps too subtle.

No problems with my Dectanes , however from the information from Dectane , not all Octavia's are the same. So when buying make sure that you get the correct ones for you car ...Not just Fl and pre-Fl , but for example the VRs and Scout versions are diffrent from the normal Octavia. Mine were plug & play after i double checked with Dectane before ordering.

Wow how hard can it be to confirm a relay location? Trying to find a proper relay diagram with labels seems like finding chickens teeth. This is the first time in nearly 25 years of sorting out little problems ....that's so frustrating. Well looks like i'll have to find a haynes manual ....oh my gosh in this day and age, would you believe it.

Sorry about the poor picture ....mobile phone.

Well replaced the the (404) relays with the updated relays from skoda. Still no joy. Car won't start still getting J17 relay open circuit. Now unsure where to go next. Here is a picture of my relay board under the steering wheel.

Despite above comments , mine has been on two years no problems, wrapped with titanium lava ( yeah i know ) heat sheilding , fitted with a 200 cell sports cat ...fitted by a exhaust specialist. Cannot complain especially at that price. Seen the pipeworx and the jetex versions ...they have a better finnish ...i.e. the welds are nicely finished. But from my experience so far this is well worth the money. Check it everytime i get the car tracked .....

I like that !

Thanks for that , but my under instrument layout looks completely different .....although it does have a pair of (404 ) relays. chnaged the one in the engine bay. Thats not it. Process of deduction goes on. :S

That's what i though , but that is one of the relays under that dash ........that seems to be a power relay, or a fuel relay .....hence my confusion. The best i have been able to find is relay no 167 ...grey in colour in the engine bay. So ordered that one from skoda to see if it's the right one. Looks like i'm on a mission ...will try and post pics and info if i get it sorted.

Car started then stopped the other day ......got fuel pump relay (J17) open or short to ground fault code. Been looking to find locations for the fuel pump relay. Seems that they are in two locations. One in the engine bay and one under the drivers side dashboard. Tried ordeing from GSF , using my reg number. They were the incorrect ones. Now I'm confused. Tried finding diagrams or pictures show where the fuses are. No luck. Tried looking on this forum ...again no luck. A relay change should be a two minute job on a modren car. For some reason the locations for the these on a skoda octavia 1Z pre-fl 2.0 vrs ...are like chickens teeth. Does anyone have either a proper location diagrams or pictures showing this/these relays so i can confirm what i'm looking at ? Thanks.