Hi all!

I've finally picked up my new mk1 Octavia yesterday.

I bought it from an arnold clark used car centre in Fife.

They had it delivered to Manchester so I went up there from Birmingham to get it.

Came back the scenic route via Buxton, Bakewell and Ashbourne etc so it had a good 150mile-ish first drive on a variety of roads (great scenery!)

Its a 53 plate, 1.9tdi, 26800mls, which is a lot less than the 140000miler I part-chopped!

Really pleased with with it but I could do with some advice,

do fuel additives work? if so, how often should I use one?

I read on an earlier thread that every so often I should absolutely ******* it, to avoid any future loss of power at high revs, is this true?

Funny enough, my old one suffered from this problem, I am quite a conservative driver so maybe I was responsible for this?

Will eventually sort out some photos for you all, it's nothing special to look at like some of your Vrs's but I plan to keep this looking as original as possible!

Winkeytone

Hi all!

I've finally picked up my new mk1 Octavia yesterday.

I bought it from an arnold clark used car centre in Fife.

They had it delivered to Manchester so I went up there from Birmingham to get it.

Came back the scenic route via Buxton, Bakewell and Ashbourne etc so it had a good 150mile-ish first drive on a variety of roads (great scenery!)

Its a 53 plate, 1.9tdi, 26800mls, which is a lot less than the 140000miler I part-chopped!

Really pleased with with it but I could do with some advice,

do fuel additives work? if so, how often should I use one?

I read on an earlier thread that every so often I should absolutely ******* it, to avoid any future loss of power at high revs, is this true?

Funny enough, my old one suffered from this problem, I am quite a conservative driver so maybe I was responsible for this?

Will eventually sort out some photos for you all, it's nothing special to look at like some of your Vrs's but I plan to keep this looking as original as possible!

Winkeytone

millers diesel sport 4 works well in the 1.9pd engine, i use it myself all the time. definite economy gains, and a bit more performance out of every-bodies favourite tractor engine i think it's maybe now been superseded with millers ecomax diesel which you can get at halfords and plenty of other places.

millers diesel sport 4 works well in the 1.9pd engine, i use it myself all the time. definite economy gains, and a bit more performance out of every-bodies favourite tractor engine i think it's maybe now been superseded with millers ecomax diesel which you can get at halfords and plenty of other places.

Or you can buy some bottles from me as I have a load left from a recent group buy

Thanks for the advice guys

and yes it needs to go above 3000 rpm every now and again to keep the turbo vnt mech from seizing..

just find a nice big hill somwhere and give it a bit of welly in 2nd and 3rd.

it has a rpm limiter to stop it going into harmful rpms and the vnt doesn't even start to move untill 3000 rpm so..