Recently bought an 2004 diesel Octavia , my rear top mount broke , while replacing the top mount I found the rear shocker to have lose its pressure.

Can anybody advice on a heavy duty shockers for the rear or some sort of upgrade, it's seems to be the only things that let's this car down.

 

many thanks R 

Shouldn't really need any particularly heavy duty shocks unless you're taking the thing on a rally stage. Just make sure you buy decent quality replacements (i.e. probably not the cheapest ones ECP/GSF sell). It might be worthwhile replacing the bump stops at the same time, they were knackered on mine when I replaced the rear shocks.

No won't be rallying lol yes I seen the bump stops where looking a bit worse for wear , do you have a vrs diesel ? 

No the only engine fitted to the mk1 VRS was the 1.8T petrol. If yours is a 2004 it could be an early mk2.

Mines is a 1.9tdi , I actually bought the car to sell but it's runs amazing with 154k on it , I have desided to keep it , o didn't know the mk1 vrs were only petrols 

Yeah 154k is not a big deal for one of these that has been well looked after. Mine is on 180k and plenty of other members on here are close to or over 200k miles.

Yes it's been well looked after , first owner was a woman for 120k , so not a taxi , she traded it into my work and one of the boys bought it then I bought it lol , as a mechanic i look after all my cars . 

Bought our 2003 tdi hatch  with 124k on the clock in feb  2011, now has 210k on clock, had no issues at all with the rear shocks