Richie's Octavia VRS Mk1

[browne174]

Hi again guys

Been quiet for a few months and never got round to posting a build thread for my car so its time to make amends

During the summer, I took a notion to change from my trusty Focus 1.8 and had set my sights on a Fabia VRS

I soon realised that the Fabia's were still well out of my price range, so started looking at Octavia's and eventually bought one.

First things I had to do was replace a few little things that were worn or broken. This included

- New rear brakes

- Front wheel bearing

- New number plates

- New front grill and badges

- Sort out a couple of annoying car park dings and scratches

After doing this, I fooled myself into thinking that I was happy enough to drive it standard.

Soon, I became bored so decided to change a couple of little bits and pieces

Soon had a certain set of wheels purchased from flybikeslee and also ordered a set of coilovers

After spending a night in a mates garage, it rolled out looking like this

Thats how it is sitting at the moment and to be honest, was considering a change to a diesel but I enjoy driving this too much so its going to stay.

Plans for the new year include

- Slightly wider front adapters and a skinnier tyre to match the rear

- Wheel Refurb

- Interior changes

Then maybe move onto a few engine goodies

Cheers for reading

[Lloyd55vrs]

Nice

And red

Cool

[Porkballs29]

Me likey. I'll be watching this one for sure. Red FTW.

[dsmithmobile]

Looks great loved the wheels on lees yellow one and they suit the red octy aswell 8)

[RobClubley]

Nice!

[browne174]

Cheers guys, much appreciate it.

Going to switch my attention to the interior once Christmas is over.

Going to get the lips of the wheels polished over winter too

[GeeVRSman]

hahaha another person to fall into the "ill be happy with this as standard"

Nice car bud!

[browne174]

I know man, proud of myself though. Lasted about 4 weeks lol

[browne174]

Long time, no updates

The first big show of the year is approaching here in Northern Ireland, Dubshed, which takes place on April 7th in Belfast. So its time to start to get some changes and improvements made.

The car is going to the mechanic on Friday to get the timing belt done then the week after, its going to a friends house to get its 100k miles service.

Some of the things I have purchased include:-

- 2 new front adapters (20mm rather than the old 15mm)

- 2 new front tyres (205 rather than the old 215's)

- Polo Top mounts / caps on the front to get a bit lower

- Lupo Wing Mirrors (imminent headache lol)

- Skoda Rear Valance

- Audi R8 Oil Cap

- New Skoda Floor Mats

- New expansion bottle to replace the current manky one

The To-Do list then is:-

- Timing Belt Kit

- Service and fit the Polo Top Mounts

- Body Shop to paint and fit mirrors and valance including refreshing a few bits of paintwork

- Polish lip of the Porsche wheels

- Fit new tyres

- Fit wheels and adapters then fine tune suspension

- Paintwork Correction

- Clean the life out of it

Will put up pictures of the progress once it happens

[suicidenorman]

Very Nice Man.

Ill be seeing it up at Dubshed so.

[browne174]

Looking foward to seeing you there man

Time for a little update.

Got the car serviced and timing belt done since the last update. Also managed to ruin my sump on my way to a friends house so had to get that repaired too

It then went to Stefan's workshop where he kindly fitted the Polo Top mounts which should improve how it sits at the front when i get the Porsche wheels back on.

I then finally got my stubby mirrors fitted to the car.

Shortly after I sent the car to the paintshop to get a few things sorted including painting and fitting the new rear lip on the bumper.

Got it back today and gave it a quick clean. Excuse the phone pictures lol :wonder:

Really quite happy with the outcome, although i still need to remove the front mudflaps as I had to remove the rear ones to fit the rear lip.

Next job on the list is to get the lips of the Porsche wheels polished then get the tyres refitted. Then just a few little jobs to do before Dubshed :p :clap:

[browne174]

Update

The annual Dubshed show has came and gone again for another year. I managed to bag myself the Runner Up prize in the Octavia category so I'm pretty chuffed.

Heres how the car looked at the show

[dsmithmobile]

Looks immaculate and well done on the award

[browne174]

Cheers man