Hello Again

Thanks for all your advice yesterday. Going to the auctions tomorrow to see what is around.

Does anyone have experience with OBD11 diagnostics and hand held scanners that are available these days. I almost bought one on ebay yesterday for £30. Can anyone recommend a particular model?

Also I am intending getting a 105 hp 1.9 TDI and will be interested in near future in upgrading it to around 135 hp. Again does anyone have any advice/ costs etc?

I did the same to my Rover 75 - increase from 115 hp to 135 hp - made quite a bit of difference. :sun:

I thoroughly reccomend the Launch Creader as a basic hand held diag scanner, it's got neat features and is a tidy and compact unit. I have version 6 and use it as a backup tool and for the price can not fault it. Version 5 is pretty cheap now and still good.

If you can up the budget even more and have a laptop, the official RossTech VCDS is the mutts nutts for VAG diagnostics and programming.

In my opinion, any cheap eBay OBDII scanner will serve it's purpose. I bought one for £22 and it's faultless, has been worth it's weight in gold.

With regards to your power upgrade, (which will be best achieved via an ECU repamp), you should be looking at around £200-£350, depending on where you go. (Only go to a remap tuner who specializes in VAG cars... I had a bad experience with a 'general' tuner).

Shark Performance (sponsors of this site and very well reputed) quote a power increase on the 105bhp unit, up to 145bhp, with their remap, which costs £299.

http://www.sharkperformance.co.uk/brands/Skoda/Octavia%20(1Z)%202004%20onwards/Skoda%20Octavia%20(1Z)%202004-%3E%201.9TDi%20PD105/

Cheers, and WELCOME!