Bit off the original topic but as always a bit of "topic drift".....

I've just had to consider the possibility of a new turbo for my diesel vRS; £1,854 from Skoda in a Skoda box, £1,040 In a Garrett box from the UK distributor - same part!

P.S. Plus 1 for KYB dampers, use them on my BMW 740 Sport "hobby car". Listed for the Mk 111 Octy.

Edited 30 August, 202530 Aug by SwallownAmazon

stick with the garratt turbo but make sure it is brand new and not recon

secondly KYB are top parts manufacturers BMW parts wont fit a Skoda Octavia two totally different class of cars but yes my choice would be Bilstein very reasonably priced on Autodoc or as you mentioned KYB they last for life of the car unlike Skoda genuine more likely

to become defective after 1 year and come at extortionate prices I stopped using genuine even from TPS a major supplier of parts to VW Skoda Seat because of their price racketeering it is illegal but the stealerships are a mafiosa control the market charge through the roof it should never be like this