Sorry fireftrm, I worded that badly. I meant to say that having a light out is illegal and you can be done for it if you can't change it there and then, not that it's illegal not to carry a spare. Depends on how much of a **** the officer charging you wants to be!

Yeah, downtime is correct. I read somewhere, possibly another thread on here, that it can possibly carry up to a 25,000 volt charge!! You DON'T wanna be messing with THAT!

Mine is a 2002.5 & I have yet to see an L&K without them.

My mates L&K doesn't have them (2005)

As I said in my previous post, Xenons were NOT standard on the L&K until the revised model was released in March/April 2007.

My apologies, to be clear I was speaking of the Octavia 1, which went to 2004. I think I mistook the op's car for a mk1 when it is a mk2.

My mates L&K doesn't have them (2005)