TomTom94

okay thanks for this. i'll have a word with the garage in the morning to see what we can work out

I got quoted £730 all in for the local skoda stealers to replace my servo.. Or my local garage can fit one for £195. But supplying the servo myself. So on top of this I have been quoted just over £200 for a new aftermarket servo from a reputable supplier. Or I can get a OEM one from Skoda for £360.

drain holes are all clean and grommets already removed. and I will check in a moment to see what I can work out about the servo in situ. :think:

I will be getting my friend at a local garage fit them as I have no clue and would rather pay someone else to do it. I already have the springs so that's one part of the cost taken away Thanks for the response

right I have had a local garage that my mate works for have a poke around at the engine as two of their mechanics are well experienced with VAG diesel motors and knew quite a bit about the 2.5 TDI. Upon testing the vacuum in various places and what not they managed to work out that it is definitely the servo causing the problem as when the servo is disconnected from the vacuum circuit and the pipe blocked off the pressure in the rest of the circuit returns to normal and I regain turbo function instantly. so it is clear that the servo is the cause of the leak. Now my next task is finding the part number for a replacement servo as the current one has a label on it which I assume would show the part number but sadly it is in a sorry state and no longer readable.

my god that picture is fantastic! good job!

here is how my engine is at the moment. I have removed anything that gets in the way in order to see what I need to get to. I am yet to work out which pipe is the culprit.

and here we arrive to the current state my car is sat in. as can be seen in the superb forum I have got a problem with vacuum loss somewhere resulting in no servo assistance when braking and next to no turbo pressure. so sadly the superb is parked up with the engine stripped of its plastics and I am carefully assessing what is the cause of this leak. I will keep you posted on any updates as and when they happen

I have decided I am going to ditch the green interior lighting in favour for Purple as it is my favourite colour and I know a company who will do it for me. so I made a couple mock up images to see what it will look like

I also have got my old O.Z racing Superturismo wheels out of storage which I had on my old superb. they will be going on the v6 once I get some new rubber all round as I want a higher profile than what is on them as they are awfully low profile for my liking. They will also be fully refurbished and I am thinking a gunmetal grey colour finished to a very high gloss so they have a nice shine to them. Here are some pictures of them fitted on my old Skoda with the 40 profile tyres

Now this will probably not be to most superb owners taste but being a young lad who is a strong lover of the VAG modified scene I couldn't hold back. I went to ultimate dubs with my cousin who has the mk2 gti golf. and the superb did the 450 mile round trip averaging 55mpg Saw some lovely cars there and got plenty of great ideas of people and have since written up a list of things i'd like to do to the superb. At the show there was a stall producing custom made plates so decided it was about time I binned the **** dealership plates in favour of some Pressed UK plates without the nasty GB part. I think they look so much better on the car than the old ones. nice and clean. and have received no interest from my friends at the station even when I questioned traffic one what they thought they said that mine are the best example on the road and there for they they would be worth a roadside argument if I was to be pulled by a novice officer who didn't know the law Also rolled over to 89,000 miles on the return from Shropshire

In this shot you can see the DRL strip on the rubber at the top of the engine bay. they sit nicely either side of the bay in the rubber there and illuminate the engine bay nicely at night. Now I personally think LED strip lights can looks absolutely naff and are tacky but these were professionally wired into the headlights and were on the car when I purchased it so when I peeled them off the headlights I couldn't be bothered to unwire them and waste the effort that went into fitting them so decided to just move them to where nobody can see them but they proved to function rather well in their new locations so decided to keep them

had my friend valet the car as he started out his own company and needed to build up his portfolio so I volunteered my Superb for a little treatment. I was so happy with the result and then later that day I decided to clean the back end up so stripped off the Superb badge and I also decided to get rid of the engine designation to remain a little discreet decided to stop for some pictures when out for a drive with my friend molly in her opel dis-astra Now here is a picture of my Girlfriends Fabia 1.4 MPI (surprisingly enough it wasn't even my idea for her to buy a Skoda) :love:

Okay I will have another more thorough look at the pipes to see if I can find the culprit. Hoping it is a simply hose leak as it will save the servo needing replacing

Once again I went out to take yet more photo's but this time it was with my cousin in his mk2 Golf. Just a couple more of Lee's Golf :love: