Helloooooooooooo

 

So........... please please please is anyone in the Kent area willing to help me / do a couple of things for me please? I dont have any car tools as such so would be helpful if they have the tools required too........... 

 

1.) fit mud flaps to my VRS (I havent ordered them yet mind!)

 

2.) fit blackvue cam so that it auto records as soon as you switch on the ignition

 

3.) change the settings on the headlight washers so they wash A LOT less frequently as its driving me bonkers using so much screenwash 

 

Can pay in cake / meal out / intelligent (?) and witty (?!) conversation / dog fur / booze / combination of previous ............

 

Would obviously love you forever and sing your praises on here as well 

Helloooooooooooo

 

So........... please please please is anyone in the Kent area willing to help me / do a couple of things for me please? I dont have any car tools as such so would be helpful if they have the tools required too........... 

 

1.) fit mud flaps to my VRS (I havent ordered them yet mind!)

 

2.) fit blackvue cam so that it auto records as soon as you switch on the ignition

 

3.) change the settings on the headlight washers so they wash A LOT less frequently as its driving me bonkers using so much screenwash 

 

Can pay in cake / meal out / intelligent (?) and witty (?!) conversation / dog fur / booze / combination of previous ............

 

Would obviously love you forever and sing your praises on here as well 

Sweet talk your dealer or confront him with the Hounds.

There's your answer in a nut shell.

Knight in shinning armour ,it's tempting for Coffee ,cake and bacon baps . however, 4 hours trip a bit much for putting in a few screws.

4 hours trip a bit much for putting in a few screws.

 

 

 I didn't realise that was on offer!

Dealer is a bit slow and also I'd like to learn how to do it as well. Dont think dealer will let me in their workshop :(

Kent meet on the 4th Jan?

Aww Boss would you?! If i order mudflaps from the other thread i dunno if they will arrive in time is the only thing lol

Not sure about the mudflaps, but I could go early and wire in the Blackvue for you.

 

I've done one or two...

Aww THANK YOU you are a diamond Boss!! Can you change the settings on the headlight washer as well?

Aww THANK YOU you are a diamond Boss!! Can you change the settings on the headlight washer as well?

 

If it's a VCDS change and we can find out how to do it, yes.

WHOOP WHOOP! *worships Boss for being amazing*

Flaps ordered apparently only take 5 mins to fit......

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/298518-which-dealers-will-fit-rear-mudflaps-to-the-vrs/

The washer settings can be found here in Andyvee's VCDS Tweeks thread.

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/291930-vcds-tweaks-for-o3/page-2?hl=+vcds

 

How good are the blackvue recorders and how difficult to fit?

The washer settings can be found here in Andyvee's VCDS Tweeks thread.

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/291930-vcds-tweaks-for-o3/page-2?hl=+vcds

 

How good are the blackvue recorders and how difficult to fit?

 

Good and not that hard.

You just have to piggyback off an ignition live feed, which means running the positive feed to the fusebox inside the trim.

Finding the fuse box on an Octavia III might be a laugh if you didn't know where to look -it's behind the glove box. You have to take the glove box out to get to it. 

 

Here's the fuse list:

 

 

Boss please let me know if I need to buy anything extra to do / fit this stuff?

Finding the fuse box on an Octavia III might be a laugh if you didn't know where to look -it's behind the glove box. You have to take the glove box out to get to it. 

 

Simply Clever my :moon:

Love you guys! I would never have thought to look for the fuse box there as I would have been looking in the same place it was on Oscar and you can't get further away in the front of the car!!

Oh also Boss is it simple to hide the cabling in the pillar and roof lining? Can't stand wires everywhere!

Ok, I have actually done this for my cameras. I used a fuse tap (about £3.50 off Internet). My cameras are fed off the accessory sockets. The front socket I connected to wiring behind socket to run power for front camera (so socket was still free to use for anything else). The boot accessory socket I used to power rear camera. I then gained access to fuse box (screw driver required to lever panel up and out!). I found accessory socket fuse and pulled out. I then used fuse tap which I put into a redundant ignition live and fed that into the accessory socket fuse terminal (socket side). It saved me running power cables all over the place, yes my accessory sockets are now only ignition live but for me that was not going to create an issue. If I want to change it back I simply pull the fuse tap out and put the fuse back in accessory socket fuse holder.

Off top of my head, the 12v accessory fuse is f40 and I used redundant fuse feed off f48 which was ignition live. PLEASE, don't take that as gospel, as it may vary from model to model. I take no responsibility, as it's my opinions and experience of this subject. I hope it helps (someone!).

I'm in kent to, if it helps.

Edited 19 December, 201312 yr by Pumatron

Not sure if this will help with wiring up the Blackview - its how I did mine and is an update on Devons Howto for the MK5 Octy

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/294828-fitting-a-multiway-cigy-adapter-to-a-mk3-octavia/

I has VCDS and am in Kent every week.

Is the Kent meet 4th or 14th??

Edit: it's the 15th

I has VCDS and am in Kent every week.

Is the Kent meet 4th or 14th??

Edit: it's the 15th

 

It's the 4th.

 

15th is a new mid-monthly one Rob at W8 performance has started.

Thanks for the heads up greenstripe.  Very helpful.

 

Ok, I have actually done this for my cameras. I used a fuse tap (about £3.50 off Internet). My cameras are fed off the accessory sockets. The front socket I connected to wiring behind socket to run power for front camera (so socket was still free to use for anything else). The boot accessory socket I used to power rear camera. I then gained access to fuse box (screw driver required to lever panel up and out!). I found accessory socket fuse and pulled out. I then used fuse tap which I put into a redundant ignition live and fed that into the accessory socket fuse terminal (socket side). It saved me running power cables all over the place, yes my accessory sockets are now only ignition live but for me that was not going to create an issue. If I want to change it back I simply pull the fuse tap out and put the fuse back in accessory socket fuse holder.
Off top of my head, the 12v accessory fuse is f40 and I used redundant fuse feed off f48 which was ignition live. PLEASE, don't take that as gospel, as it may vary from model to model. I take no responsibility, as it's my opinions and experience of this subject. I hope it helps (someone!).
I'm in kent to, if it helps.

 

We are only doing a front one, which is quite easy and the cables will be hidden.

 

On rear installs I run them off the ignition live to the rear wiper.

That way it's all self contained in the tailgate and there is no reason to break into the main vehicle and risk a potential leak.

Big thank you to all