What did you do to your Skoda today pt2

[skomaz]

Drove it home from Lincoln...   in the pouring rain...

[mac11irl]

Gave the under carriage a wash on way home from work... bloody rain has roads flooded again already!!

[MattHunt]

Saturday. ...vacumed both cars and then tried out the fabric cleaner from CYC. Back seats in the Octy look much better now.

Next weekend I need to do the Fabia. Then put fabric protection on both.

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[zeffania]

Waited until Kim went into town, then went out and washed both cars. Yes she played merry hell with me when she got back............ but I've now got two clean cars on the drive!

 

Mike

 

Mike, don't take this the wrong way, but you are an idiot! The cars can wait you mad man. I am not surprised she gave you merry hell. Look after yourself

[zeffania]

Parked it next to the wife's new car

Edited 9 February, 2016 by zeffania

[J306TD]

New pre cat lambda fitted and Varta E44 Silver Dynamic 096 battery

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[Jimdiesel]

Got some mtec drl bulbs look pretty good, Hope they last longer than the cree ones they replaced

[Hyphons]

Fitted the Monte centre console thingy

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[HeavyMetalRich]

Felicia- Filled with fuel and drove 40 miles home from work.

Octavia- Moved newly arrived Gemini set no.2 to a safe storage place until I get a set of tyres to fit at said work.

SWMBO'S Roomster- Drove to nearest town, filled with shopping and drove home again.

Mam's Citigo- Filled with fuel.

[mac11irl]

Bailed all the water out the wheel well of swmbo's citigo. Attempted to trace the leak gave up when it started raining.

Drove the octy to the plumbing shop to price up new sink and taps for the kitchen.

need to change the old work top so new splash back tiles needed, so screw it a sink and tap aswell!

[skomaz]

opened the boot earlier on to get the kids scooters and kites out for a trip to the recreation ground. then when we came back did the reverse and put them back in again...

[fabiamk2SE]

Fitted the Monte centre console thingy

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That does have to be the smartest Citigo interior that there is. Awesome  

[Outofthi5world]

Ruined it, tried fixing it the regretted ever trying. Think I should have bought a car cover and waited for a bit.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/386974-outofthi5worlds-octy-track-car/?p=4530272

[RobClubley]

Dropped it off for a WOF (MOT).

One of my xenons has failed.

And they're trying to tell me it's too low.

[Skodub]

Was going to do the cambelt today on the 1.4 16v, got so far in the strip down, then realised I needed the pulley holding tool, which I don't have

 

Still, not got to the point of no return yet, so have ordered the Sealey tool, VSE23581, hope it's with me soon! :wonder:

[fabiamk2SE]

MOT and service + brake fluid change last Saturday. 

 

Changed the spark plugs myself today. Did a VCDS scan to make sure all is good. 

 

Took it for a drive to a motorbike shop! aha

[Paulbrown]

tired to fit wheel spacers but they dont fit :-/

[J306TD]

Gave it good wash

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[logiclee]

Tried the newly fitted crossclimates on the Octy on snow and ice.

[skomaz]

Tried the newly fitted crossclimates on the Octy on snow and ice.

 

And?????   what was the conclusion - I've had no snow to play on since they were fitted

[logiclee]

And?????   what was the conclusion - I've had no snow to play on since they were fitted

 

Didn't have much snow but enough. 

 

On snow they are good. I have full winters on the Passat (Pirelli Sottozero) and Fabia (Goodyear Ultragrip 8) the CrossClimates are very close on fresh snow on the hill at the side of my house going up and braking.  More than happy with the snow performance and I know I will get to my drive on these, on summers I have no chance.

 

The following night the snow was slush that had turned to ice. On this the CrossClimates were better than summers would be but they were a fair way off the full winters. I suspect this is due to the lack of sipes. The payback for the lack of sipes is the turn in bite and grip on dry warm roads.

 

Wet weather performance especially in deep water is excellent.

 

The thing that most amazes me about these tyres is the noise, they are very quite. The Octavia isn't great with tyre noise insulation and the old Goodyear Efficient Grips used to roar on poor services but the CrossClimates hardly change tone. The Octavia is now quieter than the Passat.

 

Lee

Edited 18 February, 2016 by logiclee

[skomaz]

Didn't have much snow but enough. 

 

On snow they are good. I have full winters on the Passat (Pirelli Sottozero) and Fabia (Goodyear Ultragrip 8) the CrossClimates are very close on fresh snow on the hill at the side of my house going up and braking.  More than happy with the snow performance and I know I will get to my drive on these, on summers I have no chance.

 

The following night the snow was slush that had turned to ice. On this the CrossClimates were better than summers would be but they were a fair way off the full winters. I suspect this is due to the lack of sipes. The payback for the lack of sipes is the turn in bite and grip on dry warm roads.

 

Wet weather performance especially in deep water is excellent.

 

The thing that most amazes me about these tyres is the noise, they are very quite. The Octavia isn't great with tyre noise insulation and the old Goodyear Efficient Grips used to roar on poor services but the CrossClimates hardly change tone. The Octavia is now quieter than the Passat.

 

Lee

Cheers... I've also found them good in the wet and as you say the lack of noise is uncanny.

[Jimdiesel]

Got a carista obd2 dongle for my birthday so have been enabling and unabling things all afternoon its kind of neat!

[RobClubley]

Skoda failed its WOF for a failed xenon bulb.
Which was working perfectly when I got home.
Apparently they do this when they're on their way out so I bought a new pair of Osram bulbs from Ebay (for $119 delivered). Skoda wanted $248 + GST each.
On the Mk1 Octavia they're not that easy to change

New coolant bottle fitted, hopefully will stop the random warning light for low coolant on cold starts.

[RobClubley]