Go for it Damo! Should look great in red

Top job Jonno

Looks SO much better

Its definitely my next project now. I was looking at a 2nd hand grill on Ebay earlier, some nutter paid £48 with delivery :eek:

A new one is only a couple of quid more from the dealers

Will post a pic up when I get mine done

Cheers

Damian

we been watching the same one, i want a spare one in case it goes wrong.

we been watching the same one, i want a spare one in case it goes wrong.

For the sake of a few quid you might as well get a new one

Damo, I don't know where you get your Skoda bits from but they must be bloody cheap!

I'm the 'nutter' who won the grille on ebay for £48 and considering Skoda quoted me £47.87 for the chrome bit, £24.62 for the slats and £10.93 for the badge, I don't think £48 all in for a complete grille is bad compared to the £83.42 that all adds up to, do you?! I'm either obviously missing a trick or you get ridiculously cheap parts, in which case fair play to you... and where do you get them from??!

If it had been JUST the chrome bit, there's no way i'd have paid that much, obviously.

Anyway, my L&K arrives in about 3 weeks time so it's just enough time for me to strip and paint the ebay one which leaves my new one completely unmolested.

Sorry matey

Most people just want it for the chrome bit, but if you needed the entire grill then thats fine

No offence intended btw

Damo

For the sake of a few quid you might as well get a new one

i know and i wasnt gonna pay that, iam after one cheap as im not paying the rrp £50 (or £40 through my contact).

None taken Damo.

Just wondered how you could get the entire thing for that sort of money?? Yeah, I agree, there's no way i'd have paid that for just the chrome bit as I could've got it for just over £40 from the dealer when I pick up my car, but this way, I can have it all ready to do a straight swap, i've got a few spares and if I ever want to swap it back, the original one hasn't had the sticky pads under the chrome and melted pins on the back of the badge messed around with.

Personally, i reckon £48 delivered wasn't bad (bearing in mind i'd spend more than a fiver travelling to the dealers in the first place), but is the general consensus that it was pricey for the entire unit? I'd read that the chrome bit usually went for about £25-30 by itself on evilbay, but other than the dealer price, I didn't really have a lot to judge it by.

(my max bid was just over £50 if I remember)

not too sure if everyone here is judging that auction as if it was JUST the chrome bit for sale, and not the entire grille??

did you paint it yourself?

did you paint it yourself?

I tried spray painting mine myself but couldn't get the finish right so took it to to a spray shop to get done.

Has anyone done this to a non-VRS Octy? Does it look as good?

I'll tell you in a few weeks time. When it's done I'm putting a colour coded one on a black L&K.

Has anyone done this to a non-VRS Octy? Does it look as good?

There was a chap at GTI International who had done it - check the pictures posted by George - 2nd one down the car 5th from the left is a non VRS.

http://briskoda.net/forums/shows/gti-international-show-stand-21-22-june-2008-a/106618/12/

is there any aftermarket company that make the grills that look like the standard ones? i know a few places did when i had a rover, just wondered if it was the same for skoda? it certainly be cheaper.

Milotec do replacement grills etc but they're a bit OTT in my opinion.

is there any aftermarket company that make the grills that look like the standard ones? i know a few places did when i had a rover, just wondered if it was the same for skoda? it certainly be cheaper.

These people VW PARTS UK VW CAR PARTS GOLF PARTS VOLKSWAGEN VAN SPARES BMW VW SPARES VOLKSWAGEN SPARE PARTS SALVAGE AUDI SKODA SEAT CHEAP PART DEALER POLO LUPO quoted me GBP 55.00 (+ VAT + P&P) for a grille and chrome surround (pattern part, not genuine OEM). Freight to Oz made it too dear for me.

Has anyone done this to a non-VRS Octy? Does it look as good?

ive done it on mine http://briskoda.net/forums/octavia-ii/green-grill-green-l-k/86866/

after a month I decided it looked a bit bland as it wasnt a VRS so I found a small Tdi badge off a mk3 golf and stuck that on. I think it sets the front off quite well now and hopefuly isnt too chav! Ill get some pics up when it eventually stops raining!

These people VW PARTS UK VW CAR PARTS GOLF PARTS VOLKSWAGEN VAN SPARES BMW VW SPARES VOLKSWAGEN SPARE PARTS SALVAGE AUDI SKODA SEAT CHEAP PART DEALER POLO LUPO quoted me GBP 55.00 (+ VAT + P&P) for a grille and chrome surround (pattern part, not genuine OEM). Freight to Oz made it too dear for me.

i can get it for between 40-50 quid depending where i go, but considering it was les than 20 quid last year i cant see why i should be forced to pay the robbery charge that skoda have added to it.

How are people spraying the chrome bits?? I've just given mine to a mate who's lodger is a wizard with a spraygun but I couldn't get the badge off. The thread from earlier for the ozzie site saying how it's done says that the badge has very sticky tape as well as the two melted lugs, so are people masking the badge or is there an easy way to get it off the flimsy, very easily breakable chrome bit? My mate says he reckons his lodger will probably mask it but I don't know if it's easier to get the badge off by some magic procedure or something? Tried cutting away at the lugs before I read about the sticky stuff also holding it on which explains why it didn't just come off in my hand.

Any ideas?

Best way, IMHO, is to get a new/second hand grille surround to colour code and then put a new badge on it once painted. That way you retain your OE grille surround still chromed to put back on the car when you sell it.

Thanks, but is that the only way anybody has currently sprayed their grill surround so far?

Yeah, i've already got a full grille set just want to save the badge if possible and save myself an extra £10 which seems unneccesary to bin it if I can help it