:bttt:

Notice a few drops of oil where I was parked on the driveway, so popped into my friendly local dealer this morning...

...oil weeping from a crack on the back of the sump, near the nut, and a few scrape marks on the bottom probably show the cause.

Did anyone find any WRC sump guards? Were they strong enough to take a knock or would they just transfer the force through to the sump (and still crack it?)

Guess the only other way is stiffer springs... :(

Ah well, only consolation is I must have been going some to do it (I don't remember a particular event) so was probably grinning at the time!

Originally posted by Tavia4x4 in this post

Guess the only other way is stiffer springs... :(

There is another way, and it would improve your fuel economy

too...

Sorry to hear about the damage though...

Rob.

My mate's a bit of a welding / engineer type, and he "manuafactured" a sump guard from chunky steel plate. Although this protects the sump pretty well, any dips in the road cause the guard to dig in to the road as the suspension bottoms out and scrapes big time - a really satisfying graunch! We're thinking about invoicing South West highways for road-digging services rendered...

I suspect that this may be due to some 'enthusiastic' driving, as I too appear to have some unseen damage, which I think was a result of the last Thursday drive out we did a few weeks back at the northern meet

After having my wheel alignment checked last week, they couldn't adjust the toe in or camber on the front left due to a bent track rod arm, so it went back to skoda to have it checked out and it's being fitted with a new one tomorrow - the worst thing is that I have to pay for it as it is obviously not a manufacturing fault:(

I cracked the sump casing of my previous Octy on hitting a man hole cover on an uncompleted new road.

I think the cost was

And you want to lower it Ian ?!

no no, but stiffening it might be on the cards!

If you hit the tarmac with the sump whilst the suspension bottoms out it wouldn't matter if the car was lowered or not. So I say lower Octavias for the people I have some scrape marks in my sump as well. I also seem to have scraped the backbox. Wonder how i managed that Nothing serious though. BTW, doesn't RS stand for RallySport?

it just looked like "scrapes" on mine - the only difference is that I have further to go before hitting the ground.

You may want to keep an eye out for cracks on the rear of the sump (easier on the ramps ) as it's only soft aluminium.

What did you do with that 151mm ground clearance, Ian?

Launch yourself off a crest somewhere in the Welsh forests?

Must have been pretty fierce stuff, that...

umm, like I said, don't remember anything, certainly don't recall an airborne moment.

I was probably accelerating hard through a dip and compressed it right down, nasty (but enjoyable) habit I have. It's addictive since driving through eau rouge at Spa, just have to watch for the "lightness" that follows coming off the incline!

Last night I was pretty sure I have had cracked the sump. I was going to visit a friend of mine when I enter a 20mph zone. I remember thinking it was kind of strange that this wide road wich was pretty far from any school or residential area had that kind of speed limit. So, I floor it and reach about 70mph when I see a pretty sharp bend. So I slows down and goes through the bend at about 60mph, when I, right after the bend, see a speed bump:eek: I manage to slow the car down to maybe 40mph when going(flying, crashing?) over it. I pull over and crawl under the car to what happend to the sump, but to my surprice it was intact. I don't know why I was so stupid to go that fast when I know most 20mph zones have speed bumps. Could have been an expensive lesson. Oh, and my car is, as you may know, lowered too

mph or kph? Converted for mph users, perhaps??

70mph in a 20mph limit in the UK would mean loss of licence for at least one year plus a hefty fine. :eek:

Denis

Theyd have to catch you first tho! I live on a road which has recently been demoted to 20 mph limit and absolutely no one has slowed down , we all still drive over the speed bumps at 40 mph , i cant see the point of them myself as ive lived up here since i was 2 yrs old and cannot remember one single accident , so why the 20 limit?...crazy anti car left wing loonyism if you ask me!

Originally posted by DGW in this post

mph or kph? Converted for mph users, perhaps??

70mph in a 20mph limit in the UK would mean loss of licence for at least one year plus a hefty fine. :eek:

Since the majority of the users here at Briskoda are used to Mph(It's called imperial opposed to metric right? ft, lbs etc?) I thought it would be easiest to convert it to mph to avoid confusion. Wich I didn't quite seem to achieve If I would have been cought at those speeds I would have suffered about the same consequenses as it seems you would in the UK.

PS. Don't break the spped limits. You might break your sump;) DS.

Originally posted by Chrille in this post

I manage to slow the car down to maybe 40mph when going(flying, crashing?) over it.

Had a similar experience myself not so long ago. Well, it

was a 30 zone that's recently been put down to a 20, but

they put the speed humps in before they put any signs up,

OR PAINTED THE WHITE ARROWS ON THE BUMPS! :eek:

So driving down there at night, didn't see the damn thing -

luckily I hit it with the wheels rather than the sump, just

whacked the bottom of my front bumper (again) on the

way down...

Rob.