Hi, folks I bought a 2006 1.9pdi 4x4 today and I have a couple of questions.

The car has the factory rear parking sensors. Can the front ones be added and, if so, can I get the wiring information?

I am sure this has been covered, but what is the recommended ecu upgrade - primarily for economy, but an increase in performance would be nice as well

There is no mp3 plug. Is there a way of adding this?

Is mine a mk 1 or mk2, and can somebody explain the difference?

Thanks for your help and please forgive my ignorance.

I think I might have posted this in the wrong section initially.

You have a Mk 2 Octavia. There are lots of differences between the Mk1 and 2 but primarily the Mk 2 has more leg room in the rear and also more solidly built. One of the ways to tell it it is Mk1 or 2 is to look at the rear lights. If the red bit is in the shape of a C then it is a Mk2.

If you want more performance then a remap would be the way to go. Most people report an improvement in fuel economy with a remap too (but depends on how much you use the extra power!!!!)

Which stereo do you have in your car? Does in have an Aux input? If so you should be able to add a 3.5mm jack to connect a MP3 player.

Sounds like a MK2 ....

A good remap should give you an additional 30bhp and about 50 more lbs of torque. In real terms this will make the car quite a bit faster through the gears and your fuel economy should increase by maybe 5- 8 mpg. Of course if you turn into a throttle happy loony the extra fuel economy will suffer badly, as may your clutch and turbo, but hey

As for your stereo .... if it's a Stream, check on the front for the MP3 logo ... if it has it, then you can burn mp3 CD disks and it'll play those just fine (on a 700mb disk you can get around 100 tracks).

If you have the mp3 stream you can wire in an Aux to the plug at the back of the radio. If you have the non mp3 Stream like I have on my car then you can wire it into the CD changer pins, but the radio may not take the input unless you can fool it into thinking a CD changer is connected.

If you have a CD changer as well and want to keep on using it, then it gets more interesting again. I have a switch fitted to one of the button blanks above the ashtray that switches sound input between the CD changer and the jack plug I wired into another of the button blanks. It works well, but the CD changer will cut the sound to the speakers while changing tracks or CD's, interrupting your audio stream even while it's being fed from an mp3 player. I used spade connectors for the audio connections, which allows me, if necessary, to disconnect the jack plug and return the car to standard by matching colours on the spade connectors with no further messing with wiring.

I also have the PD 105 1.9 diesel and got it remapped to 147 bhp in Ireland... It was a customised map with rolling road before and after. The engine pulls right to the red line more like a petrol engine now - fuel economy is unchanged unless I'm continuously making use of the power. It has more low end torque too, pulling gently from 1200 rpm in 5th (And impressively hard from 1500 rpm) and holding speed down to about 1000 rpm in all gears. Previously the engine made horrible noises when I went that low.

Edited 12 April, 201016 yr by psycholist