Hi All

 

Possibly looking for some help?!

 

I have just changed from an Octavia Mk3 1.6tdi Elegance to a 2.0Tdi VRs. There are a couple of things I really miss about the old car, most are replaced by the smile I get from the hrs engine though!

 

The one I thing I really do miss though and finding hard to live without is the Raised /Variable boot floor I had in the old car.  I am desperately trying to find one to fit into the new car but cannot seem to find one anywhere, I have looked through online parts suppliers, looked on eBay and contacted a couple of breakers yards but no one seems to have one!

 

Does anyone have any ideas on where I might find one or by looking on some of the forum posts people saying they don't use or don't like and want to sell???

 

 

Many thanks in advance for any help.

 

 

I thought it was a factory option and couldn't be added afterwards.....?

Wrong  check my build thread here. I installed the complete floor and boot side panels into my car and with a bit of fiddling got it to work. Skoda say that VBF cars have studs welded in to the boot sides that non VBF cars don’t have. This is rubbish, my car had those studs and the whole thing is easy to install if you have a good toolkit and you have all of the parts. I asked for everything from the boot of a crashed Elegance Estate from a breaker and to be fair, they did send me everything. I didn’t ask for what they sent to be unbroken however so I had to rework a lot of it and then recreate some of the fixings on CAD and 3D print them (I was lucky to work at a university with a 3D printer at the time). It’s doable in a day if you are competent at pulling trim out.

Sounds far too much like hard work for someone as useless as me at DIY ! Lol

Surely it's possible to make one and cover it in  a similar colour carpet? 

The easier option if you don’t want it to be variable and it’ll stay in the up position is to do it like the Mk2. Buy a floor piece and build a frame from wood and cover it in carpet, then slot it into the car. Would be ideal. I like to lower mine occasionally though, but it would be a plan for those who don’t need to lower it.

I retained the raised boot floor and side panels from my MK1 when I bought the MK2, the floor needs slightly reshaping to match the profile of the MK2 rear panel but thats removing wood and not adding, the side rails need a tapered slip of wood nailed to the bottom in order to take advantage of the deeper recess at the petrol tank end and to have a level floor.

 

Plus a couple of other minor mods all easy DIY and doable with hand tools, screws, nails etc.

 

Much quicker than making something from scratch, looks original and having the recesses at either side at the rear in front of the cubby holes is really usefull.

 

Loads of raised boot floors in MK1's in the breakers yards, I reckon they could easily be adapted to a MK3 unless someone knows otherwise.

I'm glad I found this thread! I currently drive a 2005 Octavia Elegance FSI estate, but later this week I hope to be upgrading to a 2015 Octavia se tdi 4x4 estate. The new one doesn't have the raised platform, but it does have the loops for fitting one (although the loops are 90 degrees rotated for some reason!). So I've asked the trader if it would be possible to keep the platform when we PartEx the old car. I'm not sure if that's going to be possible (and neither is he until he has another look at it), and I'm also not 100% sure that the same platform will fit (those loops being the wrong way round for one thing), but it might be made to fit with a little ingenuity.

In the end the trader kept the platform with the old car, as it may have added to the car's value. My partner is dead keen to get another, suitable platform though. It makes loading it up with rubble sacks so much easier! So we'll have a look around and see what's available.