Hi all,

Apolagies for the delay between registering and introducing myself. I have been pilfering the forums for technical info for the last few months and was starting to feel guilty

I have a 1999 Octavia Tdi 90, problems I've had with it so far have been a mixture of bad luck and neglect from previous owner (steering rack went , MAF was buggered :( , relay 109 failed :eek: ), but I'm putting these behind me, and settling in to Skoda ownership.

I have to do a lot of driving in my job, and I have found the Octy brilliant. It gives me 60mpg every time, and now running a Pierburg MAF it performs pretty well too!!

Work outstanding is rear brake replacement - does anybody know a cheap place for new drums ?(ECP claim it's dealer only, even when I gave them the ATE part number!!!!!!), i've also got a PDC kit to install and Big K has a PM regarding Cruise.

Cheers,

GregS

Hi Greg,

Welcome

Sounds like you have a list of mods to make, be careful of the famous slippery slope !

Hi Greg and welcome.

I find it very difficult to believe you can only use dealer parts for the brakes. Most Octys share brake parts with Golfs certainly on the rear. My advice would be to try motor factors such as Partco, Camberley etc. I got all my rear brake parts (admittedly disc rather than drum) from Partco.

How about JM Butt & Co or whatever they're called?

Welcome by the way :wave:

Hi,

Yeah it seems that having drums on the back puts a fly in ointment in terms of Mk4 golf commonality (no Mk4 golfs had drums), the part is only for the Octy :thumbdwn: the cheapest quote I've had was

Didn't mention, J H Buttco are

Didn't mention, J H Buttco are