Did you see my car over at the APR stand. i didnt even know it was going to be there lol.

Did you see my car over at the APR stand. i didnt even know it was going to be there lol.

Yeah I had a nosey around it, you need silvertec indicator bulbs! :p

couldnt even tell you what they were.

So the results for GTI for sprint were posted up today....

Second year in a row :p better time than last year too which is always good. I know it's not the fastest time ever but I'm happy and looks like I will be getting an award. Perked up my day

Edited 28 June, 201213 yr by VRS-Powered

The best for the whole day, every Skoda attending, was 14.4?

Petrol bud, diesels were in diesel class

Edited 5 July, 201213 yr by VRS-Powered

Got a little box today....

couldnt even tell you what they were.

I will teach you young jedi!

Sts?

Sts?

Afraid not

Nothing to make the car faster or perform, this is basically a show off thing....

Youl need to get that glued to your dash;)

Think il pop down next you and give you a challange......if my current plans go through

Youl need to get that glued to your dash;)

Think il pop down next you and give you a challange......if my current plans go through

Ha ha look forward to it bud

I have one from last year. I will also be getting 2 next year.......hopefully

I was quite surprised APR didn't run yours Sy

I have one from last year. I will also be getting 2 next year.......hopefully

Always nice to have some competition.

I was quite surprised APR didn't run yours Sy

Its far from ready tbh mate.

The car is in Skoda this week getting new piston rings once AKSTuning have finished with the rear chassis brace work and the poly bushes. No point in taking it down the strip when its not complete really, its not going to prove anything. ill be doing the times in september when im back though mate. I'll be doing a run with R888s, stripped interior in full boost setup.

Im after the top spot on that leaderboard lol. It managed a 14.002 at the pod on the last test with savage wheelspin in 1st, 2nd and 3rd on stock conti 2 tyres on the wear markers, running with only 1.4 bar of boost(250ish Hp) and DSG limiters kicking in.

With another half bar of boost(about 20-30hp), semi slick tyres, really stiff setup on the dampers, engine mounts and a stripped interior, i reckon i can take that 13.4 if the conditions are kind. Plus i have a full lightweight TBE, TD1.2 alloys and a bigger intercooler going on as well before hand.

FWIW, i have no ideas on figures just yet for mine, but APR Australia reckon their Polo is now just shy of 300hp and mine runs a more aggressive map than theirs due to our fuel and climatic conditions being friendlier!! Even if their Dyno is mega friendly id like to think it wouldnt over read by more than 20hp at the most, which still means pretty decent power.

The only issue will be traction i guess, which means ive got to nail the launch, so a very big potential weak point in me i think lol.

Always nice to have some competition.

lol, The biggest issue we have is if JKM turn up in their K04 Octavia vRS because thats in the same class. That has a sub 13 second run in it if they nail the launch!!! I reckon we'd nail him off the line, but he'll be finishing with a terminal easily 10+mph more than us so he would be closing very very fast. Its an absolute weapon that car is!!

lol, The biggest issue we have is if JKM turn up in their K04 Octavia vRS because thats in the same class. That has a sub 13 second run in it if they nail the launch!!! I reckon we'd nail him off the line, but he'll be finishing with a terminal easily 10+mph more than us so he would be closing very very fast. Its an absolute weapon that car is!!

I sold my Fabia with it's 13.6 1/4 mile time and am working on something else now.

Check the Skoda link in my sig...

I hope to go faster.

Ok, it's been a long time since I updated this topic and this will be a long post so you may want to get yourself a cuppa before we begin!

It's been a bit of a testing journey with the vRS since GTI International, my wallet has taken a little bit of a battering (when doesn't it with cars!) and I've started to question my ownership of the car.

First problem I had was 2 months ago, the car started to wobble and shake when going over 60 mph. Motorway journeys were getting to the point where I felt like I wasn't in control so I took it to my local tyre place who fitted my springs. I asked them to check the tracking and balancing, they both came back fine, which threw me a little. The fitter started to check the tyres and found the problem, one of the Vredstein's had warped and had a massive bubble in it. There wasn't a lot of tread left on the front pair (they had covered 10k miles) so I decided to bite the bullet and get 2 new ones fitted. The only tyres in 215-40-17 they had in stock were Eagle F1 GSD3 so I took those.

They seem to have a lot of grip like the Vredstein's but I haven't had chance to test them properly yet.

A week later I had the car booked in with Vindis Skoda in Cambridge to have it's second service done, another cost but it needed to be done. The car has just hit 25k miles so it was needed ASAP. When I took the car into them I asked them to also check the oil usage, the car has used 19 litres of oil since new and of course I was worried.

The service was done at a very good price but they discovered that when I has my car lowered it seems the fitter had caught the CV boot. Instead of telling me about this at the time they just replaced it with a non OEM part, unfortunately it had split again! As it wasn't replaced by an OEM part warranty wouldn't cover the repair so I had to pay out for that to be fixed, to be honest though Vindis did it at a good price.

I took the car back the next week for the repair. While it was having the CV boot replaced it was decided that my car needed to have an oil consumption test carried out on it to test whether it needed to be looked into more. For the next week I drove it normally for 400 miles and took it back the next Saturday.

Third Saturday in a row at the garage, I felt like I should be paying them rent! The car went into the workshop to have the oil drained and weighed, while I went and got a fry up! I got a call to come back in and we discussed what had been found. The oil usage was thought to be excessive but it would be down to Skoda UK to make the call on the next step. The data was sent off to them and the garage would call me when they hear back.

The following Wednesday I got a call, Skoda UK wanted Vindis to check whether I had the new "Oil Breather Pipe Fix" fitted to the engine so I drove back down to the garage on the Saturday. The car was checked and to my surprise it already had the fix on the car. It was then decided that the car would need a new engine @ 26k miles :(. It was my worst fear come true for the car and I felt really deflated (this was the day after my birthday!). They didn't have any loan cars available that day so we decided that I'd drop it off the following weekend.

Fifth weekend in a row now, surely I deserved my own parking spot! I dropped the Fabia into them and got given an Octavia to get me around for the next week :

Bit of a difference from 200bhp+ I was used to. It was a Greenline 1.6 diesel, it was actually surprising comfy and the MPG was amazing but just lacked any appeal to me.

The Friday after I received a call from Vindis saying they were just finishing with the car but they wanted to keep it for a couple more days to test it. I really missed it at this point but I agreed as I wanted to get the car back running right.

Yesterday was finally the day I was able to pick up the vRS, after all the problems I've had. Getting back in it I felt happy but still unsure what I want to do with it. I really do love this car, it's my favourite out of all I have owned but I really need these problems to stop (I know, you can't predict them but it's only a year and a half old).

Got it washed and took some pictures today to make myself feel better, will see what happens in the future as to what I'll do, keep or sell.

Thanks for reading guys

Edited 11 November, 201213 yr by VRS-Powered

Hope this is the last issue with you engine. It is a great car and really ****es me off that the engine has an Achilles heel which hasn't been properly addressed yet.

Not good, new engine at 26k miles.

But as much of a pain as it's been, at least it's been done under warranty. This is one of the reasons we buy newer cars.

Good luck with it from here on and I hope it's using far less oil.

That really sucks, but at least it was done under warrenty.

Thats why I'm going to get rid of mines after the three years, I know there is no car which will last forever but these engines are trouble and I dont want to fork out for a new engine which will no doubt cost a pretty penny.

It's unfortunate because these cars are really good fun. Fast, economical and practical but I guess nothings perfect eh!

Hopefully thats the end of your troubles though!

damn :( another one bites the dust!

Thanks for the support guys

Don't get me wrong, the car is an AMAZING bit of kit and I've seriously thought about dry storing when I get bored of it and using it as a track weapon but I'm still worried about the oil.

Will see what happens over the coming weeks

Nice pics do you live round the st neots area ?