It's nice to be back and see how much the site has changed since I left in 2012. Ex owner of a fabia Vrs. Took it from 40,000 to 140,000 in three years!

 

It happens to the best of us. A joke bid on eBay whilst sitting on the toilet or after few too many drinks and all of a sudden you have a new car..

In this instance I'm quite lucky to live near Blackbushe car auctions and I found this guy hiding in amongst a lot of pricier trade ins. 

Bought for £800 - I present a 110,000 mile 2004 Octavia VRS estate. 

 

For now, a lot of my finances are being aimed at refurbishment over mods! 

What has been sorted so far. 

• Oil breather pipe was perished and replaced
• EML was on but was down to a faulty Oil level sensor, all fixed
• Full service - Last owner only did 10k miles over 4 years of ownership and part of me thinks the car wasn't serviced at all...*shudders*
• New starter motor - no more crunchy start ups! 
• New Bridgestones for the rear as the others were splitting! 
• Full shampoo of the interior. After owning a Fabia VRS I was prepared for another badly matched light interior upholstery colour choice! 

What's on the list to sort out before the end of April

• Keeping in mind my lack of faith that the last owner cared about maintenance, Cambelt and water pump replacement booked in this week
• Lumpy stutters from time to time, error code flags up MAF, so going to get that replaced at the same time. 
• Full respray of the front bumper, as you can some parts no longer have paint or primer on them! 
• Full respray of rear hatch as it is beginning to suffer from the common rust issues in this area.  

 

I don't have any big plans for the car, after owning a fabia that was problem free at 140,000 after doing 100k in three years, I'm confident that after doing the maintenance required it will be a fun runabout! I was surprised to see that the estate has 16 inch spiders so I might look for 17's but would like to keep it as clean and standard externally as possible. 

I'm assuming a miltek exhaust, decent filter (panel?) and a remap would see a comfortable 210ish which would make some good cost effective fun? 

 

Any fellow owners in the Hampshire area? HI!  

Edited 22 April, 20179 yr by Guest

Hello Chrisjroe welcome back to the Skoda forum.

Hi there, good work!  Nice to life breathed into the older models.

Thank you both. 

I thought it would be a waste to let this car go to scrap or to be driven into the ground!