they must have changed it at some point i guess. Question is, did they change the bulb in those 2 years

Skoda manuals seem to have put together by people who's grasp of Czech, English and German was rather tenuous and it is debatable as to how much they knew about cars. The original manual with my mkI Octavia was written in the Czech equivalent of Chinglish.

GUYS have we found out what bulb we need for the MK2 VRS, pre FL and FL please

HB4 for the facelift vRS

I fitted two to my one yesterday

OK FL VRS uses HB4 Bulbs

How about the Pre FL VRS, anyone carried out a fog light change?

hi, just upgraded my fog lights to xenon on a 2007 octy Vrs, and it's a H1 bulb,

Edited 25 January, 201313 yr by remyhapoldoy

hi, just upgraded my fog lights to xenon on a 2007 octy Vrs, and it's a H1 bulb,

Just out of interest, was that the bulb quoted in your manual?

so a H1 xenon conversion kit would do the job? Could you link to the product you used please.

Also is your car maybe a different spec because you in Norway?

Changed the bulbs this afternoon on mine, what a nightmare to do by the way. H1's on a 56 plate vrs.

Ah great! H1 for Pre FL VRS! Thanks Kuka.

Did you just pull the 2 end parts of the lower grill out and unscrew the back of the fog light housing from there?

Or better telling me how you managed, I managed to get a corner of my grill end pieces 1 quarter out but no amount of pulling was going to get them out, felt like I was going to snap them!

Yep, took the 2 side parts of the grill out next to the fogs. Does feel like they will snap tbh but if you pull the bottom edge out 1st, get a screwdriver to lever out the rest. There are 4 clips to it, 1 on each edge (2 top & 2 bottom) but wrap your screwdriver blade in abit of cloth as it will scratch the bumper.

Passenger side is the easiest to do, I found removing the headlight a great help here as you can access the fog unit through the engine bay instead of removing the side grill. Unscrew the rear of the fog, release the metal spring clip holding the bulb in place & remove the electrical connector on the rear of the bulb. Note which way the bulb comes out as it makes it easier putting the new 1 back in.

Driver side is a right pain, again I removed the headlight but you almost have to do this side blind as you have all sorts in the way in the engine bay.

I'd recommend doing passenger side 1st so your familiar with the process for the driver side as like I said you have to do this 1 all through the lower grill part & so is pretty much blind.

Any probs give us a shout, I'll try & explain in abit more detail.

great stuff thanks Kuka, what bulbs have got now, i have some Ring Ultras im going to try out.

Hid would be awesome in fog lights, just not when your driving on busy a roads

Just some cheap & cheerful 1s off ebay, will probably get some Ring or Philips 1s when these go now I know what bulb fitment they are. Didn't wanna order some £15-£20 bulbs for them to not fit!

great stuff thanks Kuka, what bulbs have got now, i have some Ring Ultras im going to try out.

Hid would be awesome in fog lights, just not when your driving on busy a roads

You do know that HID's as fog-lights would be a complete waste of time don't you?

The white light would simply reflect off the fog and actually lower your visibility.

The yellow light from standard fog-lights actually penetrate fog - and the reason so many cars still use them.

The only real reason to replace those "fog penetrating" yellows with whites would be for looks. However you should only be using them in the fog, so defeating the "for looks" as nobody is going to see them.

You do know that HID's as fog-lights would be a complete waste of time don't you?

The white light would simply reflect off the fog and actually lower your visibility.

The yellow light from standard fog-lights actually penetrate fog - and the reason so many cars still use them.

The only real reason to replace those "fog penetrating" yellows with whites would be for looks. However you should only be using them in the fog, so defeating the "for looks" as nobody is going to see them.

Not necessarily, depends what kelvin temp bulb you had in them. A 3200k or 4000k would do the job just as good as if not better than a halogen bulb.

yep it would be standard oem colour temps, i think are around 4300k which is ok for fog.

saying that its 30 percent looks, 60 percent back road driving, and 10 percent cool factor.

i ran 4300k's as fog lights in my civic.

They were great for extra visibility when no-one was about. When using them as fogs they light up too much of the fog imo as the beam pattern didnt have a sharp cut off.

From someone whose used HID's as fog's i'd say you need Projector lenses to be able to get the full benefit