ive had my vrs 3 weeks now (y reg 30.000 miles red) very impressed everything is rock solid and performance/economy excellent.

Gearbox is a bit stiff especially between 2nd and 3rd (maybe just me) also a helluva lot of brake dust what are the options on brake disc/pad combinations or are standard best? All my mates are impressed with the quality of the car and cant believe its a Skoda! Anyone got tyres other than continental on if so what and are they better.

Cheers.

Welcome to briskoda

Try a bit of searching on the forums you will find answers to your questions.

Oh and enjoy you new toy

Welcome :wave:

this thread gives some good general advice, including tyres and brakes

This one is about tyres.

If you go into Advanced Search and search for "octavia tyres" you'll find loads more.

HTH

Thanks everyone for your prompt replys, im certainly enjoying my new vrs and gradually geting to know it better, its a dam sight better (quality wise) than my last car (a rover 200 brm which was quite quick 160+ bhp) and i certainly feel ive gone up a notch quality and performance wise.

Hello and Welcome.

you can now start thinking about modifying it!!!!!

Hello and Welcome.

you can now start thinking about modifying it!!!!!

Hi Wrighty obviously you havent spared the pennies on your vrs! and the rgv 250 is not exactly the most economical of bikes is it, great handling bike which was only superceded by the aprillia 250 (same engine).

I would love to start modifying my vrs but i am happy with it at the moment but the ecu upgrade is the obvious choice with the biggest power gains.

I am up in Sunderland anyone any idea where the nearest place where i can upgrade my ecu or am i forced to travel southwards.

Has anyone had any dealings with BBR GTI near Silverstone, they are promising 250BHP

for

optomistic to say the least.

230-240 is much nearer the mark.

having said that they do have a good rep for tuning other cars....

Im fitting new discs and pads this week is it a straight forward job or are there any things i should watch out for, also are there any special tools needed. I would appreciate any comments.

Im fitting new discs and pads this week is it a straight forward job or are there any things i should watch out for, also are there any special tools needed. I would appreciate any comments.

If you're doing the rears you'll need the piston winding tool....do a search for Sykes & Pickvance and that should give you the product number....you can get it from Halfords for

If you're doing the rears you'll need the piston winding tool....do a search for Sykes & Pickvance and that should give you the product number....you can get it from Halfords for

welcome, :wave: nice to see your on that slippery slope already!!