vrsluke

Please help i have a leak from my gearbox it is loosing oil daily. i have changed the driveshaft seals as one looked damaged. but the leak also seems to be coming from where the gearbox bolts to the engine. it is definetly gearbox oil not engine oil. please help any suggestions would be appriciated, many thanks luke

gutted mate but as the other commments say at least your ok.

any jap car will be popular because of there reliablilty. plus a lot of the older ones have massive tune ability. i own a Octavia vRS. i condsider this to be a great car with reasonable power. good comfort and pratical. but i have owned a few jap cars. performance and standard road cars. all have been amazingly reliable. and although not the most modern inside as the german rivals they just keep on going. my wife had a 1.4 honda civic 1994 M reg. this car had 138,000 miles on it. all i ever did was oil changes and it never once broke down. all the electrics work and i still sat on the motorway at 70 with ease. i have owned a 380bhp scooby and even pushing that power it started every time with no issues. and never let me down. as long you do regular oil changes and services jap cars keep on going. but i think this is the same for any car unless its french. but i dont think anybody can say anything bad about jap cars. they are as good if not more reliable than german cars. but having said that i do drive a german car a the moment.

i my Octavia vrs 1.8t has an oil leak the oil seems to end up on the gearbox housing and rear engine mount a little. i cleaned it all off tonight and then took my car for a ride. let it boost up a couple of times when i got back the oil was back. i have heard the vvt seal can go where is this so i can check it. thanks for you help

hi checked out leak tonight. just seemed to be round gearbox housing in line with rear engine mount. also a bit on mount. cleaned it all off and took car for a drive came back and oil back again. no visible leaks from top that i can see. please help

brought one of sivrs works great. and link works for me too

could you please explain there location. not too sure.

hi i have a small oil leak on my vrs 1.8t seems to appear overnight a very small drop. seems to leak ontogearbox housing. i heard that the VVT seal can go on these engines. does anybody know where this is located so i can check it. plus is it easy to change. any help would be great. of course it might not be coming from there but it seems that this is common to leak down onto the gearbox. thanks

parts cost me £120 he works for a dealer and he know what he was doing. i dont think he would have offered if he had no idea. but the car drives much better now. as we found out the car was slightly out last time.

cambelt now sorted. found a top bloke on seatcupra.net i am member there too. owned a cupra a few years back. anyway he works for a dealer and he fitted my cambelt for me. i brought the parts and he fitted all in with parts i paid £190. thanks for everyones help.

hello i have recently brought an Octavia Mk1 RS on my logbook its down as an RS not Vrs and swiftcover do show 2 different cars a VRS or Rs and it was cheaper to insure an RS as opposed to VRS please can someone let me know if there is any difference. it is an AUQ engine 180bhp thanks

cheers mate. will stay away from them. maybe we should start a list of trustworthy garages.

cheers dude

Hi just wanted to know if i could get some new badges for my skoda octavia vrs all i want is to replace the Skoda badhe on the grill and the one on the boot with a round emblem with vRS on thanks

does the noise change or go away if the clutch pedal is pressed?

which garage was this as i live in doncaster and dont want to end up using them and getting myself. thanks

i would tend to agree with MBAMES sound likes clutch release bearing. the bearing itself is not that expensive as long as you can find somewhere to buy it seperate. some places only sell clutch kit. but fitting it is is costly. an while your at it you may as well fit a new clutch anyway. caused by a lot of stop start driving usualy

______________________________________________________________________________ hi new to here but this is how mine looks at the moment

hi looking at an upgraded DV for my 2002 Octavia vRS have been looking at Forge SplitR 007p Valve But not sure if this is the best one to go for. i have read that these engines need a recirculating dv and this seems to do both any help would be brilliant thanks vRSLuke

thansk fo the replies i think i will give shark a call thanks

yeah will be changing the water pump too a mate of mine has quoted £150 to change belt pulleys etc and water pump. i suppose not bad for 4 hours work. spose im just a bit tight.

Hi does anybody know where i can get my cambelt changed at a resonable price and someone i can trust. or even if i got the tensioner and belt would someone on here who has done it before and could change it for me i will pay for your time. Just brought a VRS and not really sure about the belt. so need it doing you may even know the car brought from wakefield Silver 52 plate Black R8 alloys Lowered 20mm H+R Lowering springs thanks for your help

hi does anybody know of a trustworthy company to give my Vrs a remap. i am thinking of taking a trip down to R Tech in hinkley but its a bit of a drive from doncaster if anybody know of a good company in yorkshire any info would be much appriciated. thanks

Hi just Brought a 2002 52 Octavia RS today 1.8 20v t 83,000 just thought i would introduce myself and search for some mods that are available. i used to own a Seat leon cupra a couple of years ago and i am a member of Cupra net. anyway time to get searching thanks