As the title says I have a MK3 Octavia and want to see if anyone has done any modifications to make theirs look nicer/ have any advice for mine. Not looking for a crazy sporty look too!

 

Thanks!

 

Some suggestions.

 

1) Suggest cleaning up the headlights with headlight restoration preparation.

 

2) Do full LED upgrades on headlights, indicators, tail light bulbs (in most cases will require some minor coding tweaks)

 

3) Get a set of dynamic (Audi style) mirror repeaters to replace existing repeaters.

 

4) Depending on hardware installed in your car, you can enable up a whole load of extra functionality in your car.

 

 

2 hours ago, varaderoguy said:

Some suggestions.

 

1) Suggest cleaning up the headlights with headlight restoration preparation.

 

2) Do full LED upgrades on headlights, indicators, tail light bulbs (in most cases will require some minor coding tweaks)

 

3) Get a set of dynamic (Audi style) mirror repeaters to replace existing repeaters.

 

4) Depending on hardware installed in your car, you can enable up a whole load of extra functionality in your car.

 

 

 

Thank you for the response! Just a few questions if you don't mind helping; how do I find out about extra functionality in my car, and what type of minor coding tweaks would I need if I fitted new bulbs? Only really planning on upgrading my headlights I think. Thanks.

You may need resistors if you change from halogen to LED bulbs, and I say may because some bulbs have chips in them that should bypass canbus. It still is no guarantee with chinese electronics. I just swopped out all bulbs in my car, and it was a bit of trail and error but it was mostly because other things needed modding, some bulbs were sent wrong, and some things got broken in the swop so it is what it is.

My headlights are bi-xenon lamps with LED strip so they are different than yours, and I only got one bulb for foglights and so on so you just need to check what kind of bulbs you got and then surf around to find better alternatives.

 

www.aliexpress.com has most of what you need in that regard, also better LED indicators for the mirrors.

 

PS: Most socket types go by more than one name, so just google that beforehand so you might find the right bulb just under a different name.

Edited 3 September, 20241 yr by Scout-MKIII

9 hours ago, Scout-MKIII said:

You may need resistors if you change from halogen to LED bulbs,

Not if you correctly change the bulb types specified in the BCM to LED using VCDS, OBDeleven, etc.

11 hours ago, Scout-MKIII said:

some bulbs have chips in them that should bypass canbus.

 

There is no Canbus connection or communication with headlight bulbs, its just misinformed BS that the sellers trot out.

 

The body control module has a bulb monitoring function, it sends a pulse to the lights on start up and measures the volt drop which is proportional to the circuit resistance, crude but it can tell if a filament is blown or the wrong wattage bulb fitted, it communicates this information via canbus to other modules like the instrument panel, that is about as tenuous a connection to Canbus as could be.

 

The bulbs will not have chips in them, they will have a parallel shunt resistor to make the overall resistance equal to the incandescent filament bulb that should be fitted.

The SE Sport has quite a nice subtle boot lip spoiler. Can't imagine it's much to pick one of those up

On 04/09/2024 at 06:04, dmniel said:

 

Thank you for the response! Just a few questions if you don't mind helping; how do I find out about extra functionality in my car, and what type of minor coding tweaks would I need if I fitted new bulbs? Only really planning on upgrading my headlights I think. Thanks.

If you look at the top of this group, you will find a list of tweaks to the coding that are known to work.

Spoiler

 

Side skirt and rear diffuser lowering it a bit that's how my car is 

Spoiler

 

Spoiler

 

wow its gorgeous. how do you lower your car without sacrificing comfort? or is that not possible. 

 

 

Edited 8 September, 20241 yr by dmniel

I have same car as you and painted wheels black. Got a carbon fibre looking grill surround to get rid of chrome one. Black Skoda badges to replace chrome. Got a rear spoiler and blacked out the rear lights. Tinted windows.

Window tint. Everything behind b pilar to 15 % or less.

 

Wheels make hella difference, but a better style is subjective. Try ie. Velonity to 3D model / configurator.

 

I have seen black emblems on black octavias, dont look good imo, but again it is subjective. Also black wheels are a bit risky move with a black car. Some look good some look like having steel wheels, escpecially when the car is moving and not just cleaned. Black + surface polished wheels look good on black car tho.

 

Remove skoda and octavia lettering from the boot if not done yet. And prepare to polish the area afterwards. And polishing the whole car would ofc make it look better. Also ie the B pilar plastic trims cud be polished or wrapped. They sure are scratchy at this point if they have original surface.

 

Some like to dechrome wrap or swap the grill surounding to black. This is again imo bit on grey area with a black car, escpecially if you are not going for sport look. But if you go for this i wud consider matt black wrap.

 

 

Edited 11 November, 20241 yr by RattleWagon

Agree if it's all black it's overload. I would put some red in somewhere. Definitely a spoiler. Up to the owner I guess. 

12 hours ago, RattleWagon said:

Window tint. Everything behind b pilar to 15 % or less.

 

Wheels make hella difference, but a better style is subjective. Try ie. Velonity to 3D model / configurator.

 

I have seen black emblems on black octavias, dont look good imo, but again it is subjective. Also black wheels are a bit risky move with a black car. Some look good some look like having steel wheels, escpecially when the car is moving and not just cleaned. Black + surface polished wheels look good on black car tho.

 

Remove skoda and octavia lettering from the boot if not done yet. And prepare to polish the area afterwards. And polishing the whole car would ofc make it look better. Also ie the B pilar plastic trims cud be polished or wrapped. They sure are scratchy at this point if they have original surface.

 

Some like to dechrome wrap or swap the grill surounding to black. This is again imo bit on grey area with a black car, escpecially if you are not going for sport look. But if you go for this i wud consider matt black wrap.

 

 

yeah few months on from the original post, i'm actually quite fond of chrome lmao i want to change the window trim to chrome then, like you said, tint the windows.