Jim's octavia vRs estate family wagon

[Paul thornton]

Your bin looks like mine.... full of overspray lol!

Easy to find it though after the bin men have been and abandoned it at the top of the street with everybody elses.

[Jimbling]

Ha ha yea this bin never gets emptied as we don't really have a garden to take care of its all gravel and I have never seen a bin van come round for it strange really

[Jimbling]

Right well I think I better update this…

Few weeks ago I was walking out of work on a Friday night about 11pm, when I noticed a wire hanging down from the back end of my car, whipped my phone out and put the light on to see the lamba sensor had been cut, great, drove the car home and said I will sort it when it's light, other things around the house got before the cable, so car was sat outside for two days. Sunday afternoon I had to pick my daughter up from her nanas, driving along fine THEN suddenly bang lost all power, was freecoasting along a bridge and managed to get off luckily so stopped the car and went to crank it…

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Oh great there's me without a car.

So I got the car towed home and got my friends vag com…

12 FAULT CODES. GREAT

Then I remembered the lamba sensor was cut, so jacked the car up, sorted the sensor out scanned the car again, 3 fault codes coming up again, great, went to start the car 4-5 cranks later it starts but won't idle…

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So all 3 fault codes wouldn't clear, done some research and found I had to a throttle body reset, went to do that to find out I couldn't with the fault codes being there, so bought a second hand throttle body and gasket, changed that over went to clear the codes and they still wouldn't clear sick as a chip here, tried the 402r elay (I think that's what it was in the little black box right beside the Ecu cabling) still no joy

So I knew it could have been the Ecu but didn't want to shell out for one, just incase it wasn't that, but after trying everything else, after 3 weeks without a car if I finally took the plunge and bought an Ecu

Only bad thing was the Ecu I had was stage one mapped about 210-220 bhp, the Ecu I had just bought was only about 190-200 bhp as it came off a 150 not a 180 but wasn't really bothered about that as I just wanted my car back, so unplugged my old Ecu plugged in the new Ecu, praying it would fix it and allow me to drive again, cranked the key dreading it not starting…

BOOOOOOM car was running and idling spot on I was over the moon, took it for a short spin to make sure it drove fine, only thing was it was lacking power so a little bit gutted but just glad to be back on the road ( wasn't nice having to walk to work on night shift then walking home after) so now I was back on the road the project was back on, went to a quite place I know to test this out…

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I like high 5,tried it once but being careful as I'm not sure if I'm still on standard clutch or not.

So more to update later as I'm off to work now

Comments welcome

Edited 14 July, 2015 by Jimbling

[Jimbling]

Update time, saying the car was fixed and the project was back on, it was time to make it look nice again,

So I started the grill as the paint looked cheap and nasty and was flaking off

So time to settle down to mask the badge off and strip the paint off

So on to taking the paint off (done it over a few days as I was on night shift) and the sun was shining so gave me the best time to paint it

Paint came straight off as it was thin and looked like pound shop paint

No between stage pics but here's the finished result

So now I was happy with that time to get the other side strip painted saying the weather is nice

All masked up

first coat on

And all done

Still not happy with the paint match but it makes the car look miles better and more modern

So then I had an idea, I didn't really like the fake carbon fibre look round the stereo surround, gear stick etc, so out came he scourer to give it a little key, clean it with pre paint wipes then chuck the primer on

So then it was time for the Matt black to go on 3 coats later and it looks mint

Then once it was all dry popped it all back in to the car and I love it (yes I know the car needs a clean ashamed of it as it needs a proper all day clean)

So I was enjoying the looks of my car it was time to install the arbs that I have had for about 5 months

Got the back one done

But ran out of time to do the front one so waiting for a free day to do the front won't take long but will have to see, oh and I wish I could have it this low at the front

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So that's it for now comments welcome

Edited 22 July, 2015 by Jimbling

[dubDEAN]

good thread

[Jimbling]

Right update time

Been a bit of a nightmare with life ATM, money problems left right and centre, so, car was left for a few weeks, problems sorted got back to my car to a horrible damp smell inside the car, GREAT, carpet wet boot wet, GRRRRRRR, so this happened

Spare wheel well was soked and the left hand side wheel arch pocket as well, then found the culprit THE BLOODY REAR WASH PIPE, so opened the bonnet and disconnected the rear wash pipe as I have taken the rear wiper off, so time to dry the boot and surrounding parts and clean the boot area, so this happened

I accidentally made the Death Star from Star Wars ha ha

Misses almost killed me because of this

While the back end was stripped I decided to check out the spare wheel clean it up, went to grab my hose to find out the little mongrel I call the family dog has chewed the hose and the hose end so this happened

Swimbo must love me ha ha

The finished article it looked mint so I think if I keep the car the wheels are getting re done in silver

Already have new badges to go on the wheels so let's see what happens

Comments welcome

Ken

[Paul thornton]

Can't believe you washed your wheel in the bath with Lynx lol!

School holidays have nearly finished my finances :(

[Jimbling]

Ha ha didn't use Lynx bud I used car shampoo after wonder wheels ha ha

[Dean]

Bloody hell had a nightmare time with the car haven't you! Glad to see you're keeping on top of it and not giving up! Bump strips look good.

[Jimbling]

Yea tell me about it car goes in the garage tomorrow to do the wheel bearings then hopefully Saturday I do my top mount bearings, front arb and upper strut brace

[Jimbling]

Well wheel bearings were done today so now the front end feels solid again just need to change the top mount bearings and fit the upper strut brace and front arb, replace the center exhaust hanger rubbers as mine are broke then it's on to fixing the little problems with the engine

Edited 27 August, 2015 by Jimbling

[buddy]

Can't believe you washed your wheel in the bath with Lynx lol!

Thats class, my wife would kill me if i done that

[Jimbling]

Ha ha providing I tidy up after and it doesn't make a mess she's usually cool about it

Well I pulled these out today

They would not move, so, glad I was replacing them and I test fitted this

Just need to grind back part of the standard tow loop to get this to fit where I want it or the tow strap bracket it's self will have a think during the week

Comments welcome

[Jimbling]

Test fitted the strut brace today, just have to find my drill bits now as I acquired some 13mm nuts and bolts from work, snapping point of 50nm so hopefully they will hold up to the pressure.

Hopefully it will be fitted by Saturday, then it's just fixing my big trolley jack so I can fit the front arb

Comments welcome

Cheers ken

[Jimbling]

Upper strut brace is now installed for any one that's reading this, just need to get some nylon lock nuts so they don't come loose

Might even change the nuts and bolts round so it looks a little bit cleaner under the bonnet, even though no one will ever see under the bonnet

Just need to find a 2 post ramp that I can borrow to fit my front arb and the handling will almost be complete for now, polly bush every bush when I get the money, it's getting there slowly

Cheers Ken

Edited 5 September, 2015 by Jimbling

[Jimbling]

Well looking at the front of the car there was nothing that really made it stand out, until I seen a fellow briskodian build thread and pinched an idea off him and I like it …

Paint had gone a bit funny at this point but didn't mind as if I didn't like it after it was dry I could just pull the paint off

After one side was done

Loving the look just need my tow strap on and now the finished look

Will look mint when the strap is on and I update the front badge to a mk3 vrs badge in my eyes

Comments welcome

Cheers Ken

Edited 19 September, 2015 by Jimbling

[Jimbling]

Bit of an update, 3 times I have left my side lights on and killed my battery because the door module is foobared, so stripped the door card off to look at some bits.

No wonder the speakers sound terrible

Hmmmm think its time to upgrade on pay day nice that I already have a spacer on there

Checked the plug for the electric window oh dear

Was driving along and seen a puff of blue smoke out the back thought great turbo has gone AGAIN so took a vid of the back end to see if it was smoking but all fine

http://s72.photobucket.com/user/xxlilxxlauraxx/media/F976D67A-AA16-4D64-9BCB-8AAF764C27CF_zpsjaxrn0vg.mp4.html

Got back with my purchase

So time for new exhaust hangers as my centre rubbers have given up the ghost and get a new door module, start saving up for my respray as well decals might be getting added after the respray

Comments welcome

Cheers Ken

Edited 4 October, 2015 by Jimbling

[cheezemonkhai]

Can't you clean that connector up and then put some silicon grease in there?

[Jimbling]

Yea that's just for the window module, the door lock module is the one that's gone

[Jimbling]

Well it passed its mot in September but the brakes were an advisory on my pass slip as well as the two front tyres, so poked my phone in my wheel to have a look at my front pads

Oh dear not much left there, rear disks are foobared as well so going to replace all the disks and pads for these

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So fingers crossed I have enough left after all my bills are paid for these then it's saving up for some uniroyal rainsport 3's

Still have to buy the exhaust hanger for the centre section to stop the back box vibrating off the back bumper and get a new door module so my car won't lock after 30 seconds or so even though I have opened the drivers door

Never ending this I might actually be able to spend some money on mods soon

[Jimbling]

So I bought the door lock module which arrived today

So that will hopefully be going on this week and just waiting for my exhaust rubbers to turn up then get the 3 inch exhaust gasket for the v-band connection at the back box end to stop the blow and stop the exhaust vibrating off the rear bumper

[Jimbling]

Well my exhaust rubbers turned up today so now just waiting to find a 3 inch gasket to stop the blow at the v-band connection

[Jimbling]

Now for sale for sale thread up soon

[icito]

PM you on Gumtree ad

[Jimbling]

Even though it's for sale I have just fixed the door module so now the car knows when the drivers door is open and beeps when I have left my lights in so no more flat battery for me