Whilst doing some work on my car the other day (Mk1 TDI SLX) it would appear that the car has a Limited Slip Diff, is this a normal fitment?

The transmission code on the data sticker in the service book is KS which does not seem to correspond with any of the codes on VRS Stu's guide elsewhere on the site, I must also admit I haven't crawled underneath the car to check what code is stamped on the gearbox.

Since buying the car I wondered why it felt a bit flat, one of the things i was judging it on was that it never seemed to spin it's wheels on a wet bend or exiting a roundabout in the wet

Should be useful in the winter

I've got the original catalogue for mine a 1999 SLX Tdi estate, I'll have a look when I get home tonight. I don't think there's an lsd but there is a form of traction control although no switch for it. I'll maybe try and scan any relevant part of the brochure and add it to this thread.

No.

I'd not think so, but I'd be surprised if they've not got ASR.

What makes you think you have an LSD then?

Jack the front up and spin one wheel, see what way the other spins...

If you jack up the front wheels on a vRS and spin one, the other will spin in the same direction... It's because the diff is tight rather than a limited slip unit.

I thought a non LSD car would spin the wheels in opposite directions :confused:

Ok

Heres why i think it's lsd

The other day i was cleaning the lip off my brake discs, I normally jack one front wheel up set the car away in gear so that the disc is spinning snd clean off the lip carefully with an angle grinder.

When i let clutch up car stalled, tried spinning wheel by hand and it wouldn't turn or when it did there was a clickety noise from the diff.

I then jacked both front wheels up set it away in first gear at tickover (spinning very slowly) and carefully tried to stop one wheel spinning, wheel stopped momentarilly and then snatched away again.

My last VAG car was a MK4 Golf 115 TDI, this had ASR or whatever it's called and on wet roads if applied too much throttle in bends or roundabouts it would flash the light on dash or spin wheels if turned off, yet the octy 110 BHP has never done this

Does anyone else have a KS transmission code?

Opinions welcome

The clicking will be CV joint i would have thought?

I then jacked both front wheels up set it away in first gear at tickover (spinning very slowly) and carefully tried to stop one wheel spinning, wheel stopped momentarilly and then snatched away again.

That's the effect of EDL, or perhaps ASR behaves similarly in the artificial situation you've created. The Octy does not have an LSD (as pointed out above).

Surely you would feel it when driving? My Integra was very lively and would happily tighten it's line around a corner using the throttle.

Its EDL operating not a LSD.

As far as I know no FWD Skoda has been fitted with an LSD let alone a TDi.