Hey all! Looks like I'm joining the Octavia Mk3 club!! I've just paid for a 2018 1.5 TSI SE (although haven't seen it yet...) and I'm here to talk about steering wheels and sound systems. 

 

It seemed a good price to me, but when looking at how various websites valued it, it was down compared to other similar Octavias for sale, I can only imagine it' s because of the trim. 

 

I don't mind the SE, because I don't fancy many of the add-ons included in other trim levels, but I do think (from sitting in similar Octavias), that I won't be happy with the steering wheel or sound. 

 

I sat in two Octavias, one a VRS which seemed to have a great sound to me (though apparently not Candon), and a nice wheel. 2nd Octavia seemed to be completely missing midrange sound (almost to a point where it seemed faulty, but I hear its a thing) and had a cheap feeling wheel. So my questions... 

 

Has anyone replaced or stuck a cover on their wheels? You can get genuine leather stitch on covers for like £20, probably beats paying £250 for a second hand VRS wheel. 

 

And the other question is can you get in to modern sound systems?!! Back in the day I would replace the head unit and run amps off RCAs, but I can imagine that's likely the right route these days?! I will do some research, but any help helps massively! 

 

Excited to get the new car, but I think I'll only be truly happy when I've ironed out one or two of its flaws...

 

Cheers all! 

 

Hello Tom and welcome.

 

have you thought about getting the wheel re trimmed?  I had a VW Amarok and got a 2nd hand wheel from eBay, had it recovered  in Alcantara and loved it.

 

I even had the original wheel re trimmed  and sold it on eBay to recover some of the costs.

Why had that not occurred to me as a possibility?! Google says there is a very good car retrim place fairly local to me, I will ask for a quote today, hopefully not too scary pricey. 

£220 apparently... if it were £150 then I'd probably go for that, but as beautiful as it most likely turn out, that might be a little steep...