After ordering my L&K in September it is finally at the dealership. I have told them that rather than registering now I will wait and have a 1st of March reg.

So I phoned and went over to have a first look at the car. Everything is as speced and it has cheered me up to see the beauty siting there. Now waiting such a long time I have read every post in the Octy II forum so thought I knew most things about the my new baby.

I ordered a 1.8 TSI engine, 6 speed manual. Had a look at the rear badge not the engine because I would not know any difference and it had a TSI badge with the "I" coloured red. When I checked even the sales guy pointed out it was red. When we my wife and me went in the showroom again as I was waiting for the salesman to finish our dealings and I noticed all the other cars that had a TSI badge were all silvered coloured.

I am now interested why the red coloured eye. Is there an engine difference?

PS My wife says if i mention it again out loud, I will end up with a black eye!

Edited 16 February, 201016 yr by tetley

After ordering my L&K in September it is finally at the dealership. I have told them that rather than registering now I will wait and have a 1st of March reg.

So I phoned and went over to have a first look at the car. Everything is as speced and it has cheered me up to see the beauty siting there. Now waiting such a long time I have read every post in the Octy II forum so thought I knew most things about the my new baby.

I ordered a 1.8 TSI engine, 6 speed manual. Had a look at the rear badge not the engine because I would not know any difference and it had a TSI badge with the "I" coloured red. When I checked even the sales guy pointed out it was red. When we my wife and me went in the showroom again as I was waiting for the salesman to finish our dealings and I noticed all the other cars that had a TSI badge were all silvered coloured.

I am now interested why the red coloured eye. Is there an engine difference?

PS My wife says if i mention it again out loud, I will end up with a black eye!

I believe the black "eyed" version runs on crude oil !

Radiotwo

(sorry)

Only a guess here, but it probably means it's the 1.8 TSI rather than the 1.4 TSI

My dad's Passat is the 170bhp diesel model and has a 'red I' on it's TDI badge, when all the others seem to just have silver.

I am now interested why the red coloured eye. Is there an engine difference?

That should read "red coloured "I"

I am multi tasking at the moment - posting, feeding young kids pancakes (that they keep dropping) and eating myself.

Thanks anyway.

I am now interested why the red coloured eye. Is there an engine difference?

That should read "red coloured "I"

I am multi tasking at the moment - posting, feeding young kids pancakes (that they keep dropping) and eating myself.

Thanks anyway.

Mine is Red as well!!! We need someone with a 1.4TSi to say what colour their 'i' is

Tetley - you'll enjoy your L & K - I've had mine for three weeks now - such a lovely engine and certainly no gas guzzler if driven carefully...

Lots of toys to suss out too!!!

it looks worse on a red car!

It is a 1.8TSI SE.

Edited 16 February, 201016 yr by budgiebandolier

The use of red normally denotes the tune of power within a series of engines, for example the Fabia I HTP had a red letter P for the more powerful 12v engine. A few years back the VW Passat had 4 tunes of TDI PD on the go, so the top of the range 150 was TDI while the least powerful used all silver.

Regards,

TP

Mine is Red as well!!! We need someone with a 1.4TSi to say what colour their 'i' is

Tetley - you'll enjoy your L & K - I've had mine for three weeks now - such a lovely engine and certainly no gas guzzler if driven carefully...

Lots of toys to suss out too!!!

Now I have seen it, I can't stop grinning. Going up the pub shortly as else I wont sleep tonight.

I've got a Columbus fitted (as I did not read these forums first about cost savings), mdi for mini USB, bluetooth with the "phone MFSW" as well as all the standard toys!

The use of red normally denotes the tune of power within a series of engines, for example the Fabia I HTP had a red letter P for the more powerful 12v engine. A few years back the VW Passat had 4 tunes of TDI PD on the go, so the top of the range 150 was TDI while the least powerful used all silver.

Regards,

TP

VW have used red lettering for some time to denote the differing power outputs from the same engine cc. Until recently I had a Golf 150bhp diesel - the engine had an all red letter TDi (even though the car was actually badged GTI on the boot in silver).

VW have used red lettering for some time to denote the differing power outputs from the same engine cc. Until recently I had a Golf 150bhp diesel - the engine had an all red letter TDi (even though the car was actually badged GTI on the boot in silver).

My 'i' is silver. I had assumed they had dropped the red I with the new lettering. I has a 1.4 TSI

I'm ... slightly disappointed. But I like my car so much it will pass!

Edited 16 February, 201016 yr by TomGoodheart

You learn something new each day. I am taking delivery of a 1.8 TSI in corrida red on 01032010. The colour really does look good. I guess i'll just have to make do with a red 'I'.

I too have a red "i" on my 2.0 diesel.

Edited 18 February, 201016 yr by Gillywibble

I am multi tasking at the moment - posting, feeding young kids pancakes (that they keep dropping) and eating myself.

That's a bit extreme isn't it!

At least it's physically impossible to eat a whole 'myself' in one sitting though.

My wifes Fabia 1.9 TDI Elegance Estate 54 reg has a silver "T" and red "D" and "I", so here we have another combination.

Senior Scout

My wifes Fabia 1.9 TDI Elegance Estate 54 reg has a silver "T" and red "D" and "I", so here we have another combination.

Senior Scout

PS. to the above my 6 week old 1.8TSI Scout has nothing on the boot lid except Octavia Scout ?.

Senior Scout

Budgiebandolier, what wax do you use, for I can see the other side of the street in your tailgate ! ? !

I've a corrida red 1.4 TSI hatch arriving next week and if it looked as good as that I'd be well pleased. Also red VAG cars are renowned for oxidizing, more so than other manufacturers - does anyone have a secret to prevent this?

Edited 19 February, 201016 yr by Cauliflower

To mix things up a bit more... This is the PreFL badge on 1.8 TSI:

Budgiebandolier, what wax do you use, for I can see the other side of the street in your tailgate ! ? !

I've a corrida red 1.4 TSI hatch arriving next week and if it looked as good as that I'd be well pleased. Also red VAG cars are renowned for oxidizing, more so than other manufacturers - does anyone have a secret to prevent this?

That picture was taken 26/09/09 after picking it up from the dealer 17/09/09.........that is how it came to me, I had only just washed it for the first time before the picture was taken in good lighting conditions with a good quality compact and the file is about 3.5MB in size on the original file.

After a winter( that we are still in!)............it still looks ok

Edited 19 February, 201016 yr by budgiebandolier

VW have used red lettering for some time to denote the differing power outputs from the same engine cc. Until recently I had a Golf 150bhp diesel - the engine had an all red letter TDi (even though the car was actually badged GTI on the boot in silver).

What he said.

On the Mk1 Octavia the 90bhp engine was all black on the TDI , the 110bhp had a red I and the 130bhp had a red DI.

There were always a few oddities though , usually cars that should have had red letters getting black ones (or silver on VWs) - probably when the factory ran out!

Could it be a UK thing? I remember when I had a MK IV Golf GTI. The 2.0L Golf had Silver GTi badges stuck on in the UK. In Europe there was only one GTI the 1.8T (GTi all in silver), but in the UK to distinguish between the reall GTI and the 2.0 rebadged version they changed the i to red on the 1.8T version. As mine was an import it just had the all silver GTi badge. An excellent "Q" car... caught a few people out....

The 1.8T was a great engine, one reason I am looking at an Octavia 1.8 TSi

Simon