Hi All, am due to take delivery of my VRS estate on Wednesday, and due to the delays have been offered £300 good will from Skoda.

I am going to get the Raised Boot Floor which costs just over £200 for the parts or £280 fitted.

Is this something that can be fitted myself easily enough or is it best to let the dealer fit it?

Thanks

Andy

The variable boot floor should be trivial to fit. There have been a couple of discussions on fitting these yourself and how ridiculous it is for the stealers to be charing £80-100 for fitting.

Nice one, cheers mate, had tried searching but found nothing

Will get my dealer to order them in then and have a go fitting them on Wednesday.

Cheers

I have the raised boot floor in my estate - looks like a 5 minute job to fit.

It will take longer to get out of the plastic bags than it does to fit!

There are two rails which run the length of the boot which clip into place at the front and are fixed at the back of the car with a metal bracket over the loops in the car and held in place with a twist fit hook. After this the floor section folds out on to the rails and is held in place with two quarter turn fasteners (dzus).

Its literally a 10 min job.

What is variable about the "variable" boot floor ?

Does it slide out over the bumber to help you load stuff ?

What is variable about the "variable" boot floor ?

It raises the floor so it level for loading. It also means that it's level when the back seats are folded. It is hinged half way so half can the full height and half lowered, while the hinged bit can also be made vertical to stop stuff moving around.

Does it slide out over the bumber to help you load stuff ?

No

Thanks NoWaiting, I must have confused it with another car.

Shame it doesn't slide out.

Thanks NoWaiting, I must have confused it with another car.

Shame it doesn't slide out.

I think it is the Superb estate floor that does that

The step in the floor is really annoying and is a less than satisfactory feature. In my last car - a Fabia Vrs, this really got annoying, because I regularly carried a couple of lawn mowers around in the back.

I got round it by using some short lengths of timber - about one and a half inch square stuff and a false floor made of 4mm ply cut to the shape of the load space.

Put the timber lengthways, front to rear, and the ply on top, thus creating a false floor. A lot cheaper. Take it out when not needed.

I may well do the same for my Octy, but as I no longer carry messy items about, I'll probably trim it with some cheap carpet or similar.

Yup very very easy, do it yourself.

When I changed cars I took my raised boot myself. The swap took about 10 mins to both remove and install in to the new car.

There are two rails which run the length of the boot which clip into place at the front and are fixed at the back of the car with a metal bracket over the loops in the car and held in place with a twist fit hook. After this the floor section folds out on to the rails and is held in place with two quarter turn fasteners (dzus).

Its literally a 10 min job.

The only "tricky bit" of fitting yourself is that the clips at the front are not riveted to the chassis as standard but they do come in the fitting kit. It's necessary to line the plates up on the chassis, drill the holes and rivet them in place, or do as i did and don't bother.