Stools, chairs, rolling seats... you all remind me I forgot to do the roof! 

5 hours ago, freelunch said:

Stools, chairs, rolling seats... you all remind me I forgot to do the roof! 

Not much point me washing ours at the moment because we have builders knocking 10 bells of $$$$ out of the house across the road. As a result there's dust & mud all over the shop & in the air from 8am till 4pm. 

I also hear we are getting some sand from Saudi with our weather so I'll wait for a bit before I get the pressure washer out.  

 

On the plus side I have invested in dual action polisher for the cars. Nothing too expensive but it will save my aching joints. When all the dust settles (literally) I will have a go at a bit of light cutting & buffing to remove some swirls in the paint on my car which, being black, shows every mark known to man.  

19" summer wheels back in place. I'm finally enjoying my detailing work this winter (deep cleaning, waxing and tyres dressing)

Clean wheels but dirty car... 

 

 

 

 

2 new Michelin PS4 on the rear axle. Finally got rid of the original Pirelli P7. I'm eager to go for a drive, to feel the différence  

 

Edited 5 April, 20215 yr by Bap33

11 hours ago, Bap33 said:

19" summer wheels back in place. I'm finally enjoying my detailing work this winter (deep cleaning, waxing and tyres dressing)

Clean wheels but dirty car... 

 

 

 

 

2 new Michelin PS4 on the rear axle. Finally got rid of the original Pirelli P7. I'm eager to go for a drive, to feel the différence  

 

 

Bap33 - Are those black powder coated wheels? They look like the same as I have on mine which are diamond cut anthracite grey.

The reason I ask is that I'm considering getting mine power coated black to match the car colour.   

 

 

So I'm planning a virtual cockpit retrofit and wanted to start gathering parts. I read that to do it right, you should have a view button on the steering wheel. But why pay £70+ for buttons and faff around switching them when you can find a flat bottom sportline wheel with the heated option and view button (retails at £600) for £80 on ebay...

Was that c/w the airbag? 
 

Apparently the heated wheel air bag is different?

5 minutes ago, AlVal said:

So I'm planning a virtual cockpit retrofit and wanted to start gathering parts. I read that to do it right, you should have a view button on the steering wheel. But why pay £70+ for buttons and faff around switching them when you can find a flat bottom sportline wheel with the heated option and view button (retails at £600) for £80 on ebay...

Nice weather in Olney. Similar here in Newport P & it's settling. Not ideal for working on the car

13 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

Was that c/w the airbag? 
 

Apparently the heated wheel air bag is different?

Didnt come with airbag. As long as you get your part numbers right, airbag is a straight swap

@AlValI hate you so so so much!!! Been after one of those forever!!!! It is 3V0419091AF isn’t it the wheel? Thought the airbag was different. Where did you find it if you don’t mind me asking?

Edited 6 April, 20215 yr by SashaGrace

@Colin170CR These are the original glossy black wheels. I didn't have them powder coated. Sorry.

11 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

@AlValI hate you so so so much!!! Been after one of those forever!!!! It is 3V0419091AF isn’t it the wheel? Thought the airbag was different. Where did you find it if you don’t mind me asking?

 

Yep 3V0419091AF, there are a few extra letters at the end which I think designate the stitching colour, in my case BGW (silver?) 

 

Ebay, I paid EUR100 (£84), and there's not a scratch on it. 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-SKODA-FABIA-3-Octavia-Suberb-3-Leather-Steering-Wheel-MFA-White-Seam-/233919048246?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

 

The craziest part is that there was some courier mixup whereby the courier said it had been delivered.. In Germany (?!)  a week ago, and since I'm in the UK I got worried and raised it with the seller. Seller refunded me, and then it showed up today! So at this point I got it free. I will do the right thing though and contact them. 

 

I had forgotten how much a decent wheel changes the driving experience, years ago swapped my mk4 golf wheel for an R32 one, and I remember thinking it was the best mod I ever did, and I'm getting that same feeling with this. 

 

However I was sure I read somewhere that if you had heated front seats, the wiring for heating to the wheel was already in place, but on mine the wire for that isn't visible at the hub. Maybe it's hiding behind this circular round plastic spinnything on the hub that contains the airbag connector in the pic below. See also pic of back of wheel where you can see the heated wire connector poking through. I reckon there's an alternate version of black round spinnything that contains heated connector also. More research needed there to get the heat working on it. I wonder if it's not related to heated windscreen as opposed to heated seats (I don't have the heated windscreen)

So lucky!! I keep missing the cheap ones, missed one in Feb as well, £90!!!! The heated wiring will need adding. If you aren’t feeling the love for that task I’ll swap you with my equally perfect non heated one, same stitching and button layout  I have this time number saved on eBay search but they never tell me when they are for sale!

Not done anything to the car just yet but postman has brought something rather exciting😍 should be fitting in on weekend😇

13 minutes ago, SashaGrace said:

So lucky!! I keep missing the cheap ones, missed one in Feb as well, £90!!!! The heated wiring will need adding. If you aren’t feeling the love for that task I’ll swap you with my equally perfect non heated one, same stitching and button layout  I have this time number saved on eBay search but they never tell me when they are for sale!

Can't find the heated version spinnything ("clock spring") less than £100 5Q0953502B, never thought that would be more expensive than the wheel haha

Yeah that’s another expensive component lol

@SashaGrace what's the difference between what you have vs @AlVal?

Mine is not heated  But I’ll be looking much more closely for a heated one now. Was only doing cursory glances when I had the vRS as I knew it wasn’t staying.

Ah yep, the NZ sportline come with heated standard.. although it doesn't really get cold enough to use it so I'm not sure why we need it

 

Would much rather have vented seats, but those are heated too

The 2021 SportLine has it now, but I don’t fancy the 2021 wheel swap as the view button issue still hasn’t been fixed. Mine is a 2020.

20 hours ago, MarioVrs said:

Not done anything to the car just yet but postman has brought something rather exciting😍 should be fitting in on weekend😇

Enjoy the extra Bhp. How much?

Did you get that exhaust you were looking at?

3 hours ago, Colin170CR said:

Enjoy the extra Bhp. How much?

Did you get that exhaust you were looking at?

I already do 😁 fitted it today and wow...map 1 what a difference... Will have it on dyno out of interest once exhaust arrives.

Yes exhaust has been ordered 4th of March...just today i spoke to that company and it will get sent next week😎

9 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

The 2021 SportLine has it now, but I don’t fancy the 2021 wheel swap as the view button issue still hasn’t been fixed. Mine is a 2020.

Yeah, mine is a MY20 thankfully (don't have to deal with MIB3)

Got the 280 stage 1 tuned. First of was very surprised (but not unheard of) that Skoda underrates the engine clearly. It should be 280 bhp but stock dynod at 226kw / 304bhp and then got a gain of 57kw so now it is 283kw / 380 bhp. Will measure with Dragy 0-100km/h, 0-200km/h, 100-200 and 1/4 & 1/2 mile times soon to compare to reference point at stock.

Getting haldex, DSG box serviced, engine flushed and oil & filter changed

4 hours ago, MarioVrs said:

Getting haldex, DSG box serviced, engine flushed and oil & filter changed

Mines due its 2yr service in a few months. I’ve a set of NGK R7438-8 plugs sitting here to go in it at the same time. Like the iridium ix fitted to the older gen units, they do give a smoother and faster response under throttle. 

Edited 10 April, 20215 yr by UndertheRadar
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