TFSI k04 OEMplus

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Oh, and love the FL climate upgrade. Very neat and judging by your write up, simple to do? Plug and play?

[missingmyvrs]

you can get a few more horses aswell from this when you get bored of power

people getting 360bhp 360ftlb with same setup ;-)

lovely car

[mark_eire]

Just read this whole thread and wow. Both cars are gorgeous, hope to see them on the road some day

Thanks man!

Oh, and love the FL climate upgrade. Very neat and judging by your write up, simple to do? Plug and play?

Thanks, yeah it was plug and play, simple mod, but there is no memory on the climate, I think that might be the reason the fitting guide recommends a wire change, when I get into the car now, it is always set at 24deg and air flow to window and drivers face, no matter how you have it set when turning off the car, it will be on that setting when you start up again, not really a problem, just a twist of the knob!!

you can get a few more horses aswell from this when you get bored of power

people getting 360bhp 360ftlb with same setup ;-)

lovely car

Thanks, think I'll be staying where I am power-wise for now, the car is still on it's original clutch from new, and no sign of slipping yet, until I have the funds to upgrade it, power will be staying as is, but good to know more is achievable!!

[Dave_O]

Bit of a geeky update, but make's the interior look so much better imo!!

I picked up a newer FL climate control panel last week,

I also had to order a new dash fascia to fit around the new type climate panel

Here is how I started out, the original climate control

While I was taking it all out, I decided to fit my Kufatec basic plus kit, the car already had the oem bluetooth kit fitted, but it was the old 729A module and doesn't display on the maxidot screen, I might get a newer 729B module at a later stage, but for now I'm back to my kufatec kit, great job! old pictures from when I fitted it to my old vRS

Anyway, back to the climate control!

All removed and kufatec fitted behind where climate control panel fits,

New panel fitted

Here it is with the new surround

Here's the cool part, it displays on the Columbus sat nav screen,

Look's so much better than the old climate panel

The guide I read said that there needs to be a wire changed from one feed to another, but I didn't need to do that, straight swap.

The Columbus had to be upgraded from it's original SW to 2764 as most firmware before that won't display on the screen,

When I had upgraded the maxidot was stuck in the Audio/Navigation menu if I clicked into them, it wouldn't come back out unless I turned off the radio, but after upgrading the 27xx fix, it all works perfectly again.

Hey Mark - Where did you pick up the climate control panel & Sat Nav unit??

Cheers

[mark_eire]

Hey Mark - Where did you pick up the climate control panel & Sat Nav unit??

Cheers

Hi Dave,

I picked up the climate panel on here, but it's just a FL octavia panel, the Columbus nav was one I had the last few years, they can be picked up on eBay etc, it needs to be above a certain firmware to display the climate display on it though.

[mark_eire]

Ok well, the Helios are now gone, they went to the UK today I was thinking about keeping them for the show's etc and maybe running them during the summer, but to be honest, they would be wasted sitting in boxes for most of the year, anyway, I'm happy with the BBS CH's and my 18'' oem Zeniths are in the garage too if I fancy a change, might see if anything nice come's up during the year though!!

I'm waiting for a day off to lower the suspension, but it has settled a lot since the last picture, I can't believe the comfort of the twintubes, they are almost the same in both comfort and even over the speed bumps as the H&R cup kit was with 50mm lowering springs,

Anyway, I got a few better pictures today of the car with the CH's fitted, they are just on my phone, hadn't got the dslr with me.

[TrevorB33]

Thought about facelift rear lights?

[mark_eire]

Thought about facelift rear lights?

Yeah I was considering getting them, but I think I prefer the pre FL one's for some reason....

[rob_e]

Looks great mark - wheels don't look so small in those pics..

Just out of interest, was your cup kit the "comfort" or "sport" spec? IIRC H&R do two specs with different spring/damper ratings.

[mark_eire]

Thanks Rob, I'm actually really happy how the car is looking on the CHs, a bit lower and ill be chuffed!

The only difference between the comfort and sport H&R kit is the spring as far as I'm aware, the comfort kit comes with -35mm springs whereas the sport has -50mm, I originally had the 35s but changed to the 45/50mm ones on my old vRS, I'm open to correction, but that's what I was told anyway.

[D@z]

looks really good!

[mark_eire]

I bought a dash cam on the recent group buy here, I never even noticed the GB until j0hn put up picture's of his, it's a Blackvue DR380G HD, to be honest, I had never felt the need to have one, but after looking at reviews and video's uploaded from the same type, I just got it,

The kit comes with the camera, mount, 12v cigarette lighter cable, AV in and out cables, 8GB micro SD card, and all the info you need to fit it, I have a few bits organised to mount a new cigarette socket behind the dash to power it, was going to cut off the plug, and wire it directly into the car, but it would be easier to wire it into a socket so it can be moved from car to car if needed,

Really impressed with it, it has GPS so it displays your GPS speed and your location on google maps when you have the video's on playback, I don't really have a whole lot of use for it in reality, I don't do track days, but with all the lunatic's on the road, it may pay for itself someday!!

Here it is mounted, can't be seen behind the rear view mirror, the cable was running down to the cigarette socket, but it will be run along the roof cloth down behind the dash when I have a chance to wire it in properly during the week!

Quick video, it was just fitted so I presume it hadn't picked up any GPS coordinates for speed display!

I also got a set of C spanner's, thanks to Keith, during the week to adjust the coilover's,

I went at them yesterday after work, but got caught out by the dark, so didn't get as much time as I wanted to mess around with them, but they are around 15mm lower all round than they were before, fairly happy, but might go a bit lower again, with the baby in the car, it won't be going silly low though, here's a few pic's of how it's sitting today.

Will drop it another 10mm during the week, that's all for now!!

[rob_e]

Looks perfect at that height Mark.

[mark_eire]

Thanks Rob, I was planning to go a bit lower, but might leave it, its still as comfortable as it was on the H&R cup kit, which is a lot better than I was expecting from a coilover setup, its been about 12 years since I had coilovers on my old lancer Evo 3, glad to say they've really come on a lot in comfort since then!!

[D@z]

Long time no hear Mark, were you at Dubshed? was looking out for you but didnt see your car anywhere?

[GrantS508]

How low is that there mate? Looks perfect.

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[mark_eire]

Long time no hear Mark, were you at Dubshed? was looking out for you but didnt see your car anywhere?

Hey Darren, hope you had a good weekend, I was originally planning to go up on Saturday morning, but that changed, so I had the car cleaned and ready to go for Sunday morning, but got dragged to a family party Saturday night and that was the end of the Dubshed plan!!!

I've got a bit of bodywork sorted on the car recently, new windscreen last week also, I've a few bits in the pipeline also so will update this as it come's along

Money has been spent on a house extension and another baby due soon so the car has had to take a back seat the last while!!!

[mark_eire]

How low is that there mate? Looks perfect.

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Thanks, I'll get you exact measurement's tomorrow

[mark_eire]

Was gutted I didn't get up to Dubshed in Belfast on Sunday, but had a family party Saturday night, I had the car clean ready to go early Sunday morning, but a combination of a hangover and my wife about to have our 2nd baby, I decided to give it a miss!

Anyway, I had a few things tidied up on the car in the last week getting ready for the show,

first up was a new windscreen, fitted by Autoglass, all good so far!!

Then I got a nasty scratch/dent sorted on the passenger wing, on it from before I bought it

Now

Need to get a replacement passenger side mirror now, didn't get time to get it changed

I also got another big box off the postman today, he's being good to me lately!!!

A set of OEM Octavia LED tail lights from the Chinese Octavia,

Anyway, more pics!

New v Old

Last few pictures for now, some I took a while ago, not the best as there off my phone, but to give an idea at night!

[mark_eire]

How low is that there mate? Looks perfect.

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Sorry for delay getting back to you,

The car is

64cm from ground to arch on rear (33cm from dead centre of wheel to arch)

63cm from ground to arch on front (32.5cm from centre of wheel to arch)

HTH

[GrantS508]

Sorry for delay getting back to you,

The car is

64cm from ground to arch on rear (33cm from dead centre of wheel to arch)

63cm from ground to arch on front (32.5cm from centre of wheel to arch)

HTH

Thanks Mark, much appreciated

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[DaveyBoyWonder]

Does look perfect height. Love those BBS (Pescaras are they known as) wheels - I'm toying with the idea of tracking down a pair once I've ticked off some other stuff.

Must admit, I'm not keen on the LED rears but then I prefer the pre-FL normal rears over the FL ones.

[mark_eire]

Does look perfect height. Love those BBS (Pescaras are they known as) wheels - I'm toying with the idea of tracking down a pair once I've ticked off some other stuff.

Must admit, I'm not keen on the LED rears but then I prefer the pre-FL normal rears over the FL ones.

These aren't Pescara's, the Pescara's came on the ED30 Gti's and are just 7.5in wide, these are the A4 equivalent and are 8in wide with a better offset too!!

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Ah, didn't realise there was a difference between the A4 and ED30 ones. Thats good to know!

[mark_eire]

I picked up a set of Golf R pad retaining clips a few weeks back for my 345mm calipers, they look much better than the standard small clips,

They were actually pretty faded as they had been on a Golf R for a few years and were replaced by the owner for new ones, perfect for what I wanted!!

I got them sprayed silver

I also bought a set of high temperature decals on eBay

Old pad clips removed

Old clip v new one!

Happy how it turned out!