I bought a Mk2 Octavia 1.8TSI 118kw (CBAA I think) 4x4 estate in white (ambiente i think) it has satnav, but the seats are cotton and the rear windows are manual, its one of the last ones made, registered 06/2013, everything on it works almost perfectly I've done 2000km in it already, I have a few niggles i would want to fix with the car because apart from those its perfect, it uses more fuel than i expected when cruising at 130km/h (80mph) i think this has do with the short gear ratios and sitting at just over 3k rpm, or it could be the fact its raised compared to a normal octavia and the haldex doesnt fully decouple and its an estate.

how tunable is this engine, I was considering tuning it just to bring it to 180-200 horsepower if possible, possibly a larger inter cooler, but nothing that could risk the engine or its reliability, I always stay on top of service and the car has a full service history and was imported from Switzerland this year. also I was wondering if they ever did a 4x4 mk2 Octavia with the vRS engine, or is the 1.8tsi the highest power engine they did.

the main reason for the tune is some more torque around 2k-3k rpm it only seems to really wake up at 3.2k rpm,

On 22/11/2025 at 23:27, Jonamiga said:

it uses more fuel than i expected when cruising at 130km/h (80mph)

Cruise slightly slower and you'll use quite a bit less juice

thats what i''ve started doing, i found that cruising at just under 3k rpm (124km/h) makes a quite a difference, when driving on country roads i get around 40mpg (7l/100km) but city and motoway driving is around 32mpg (8.8l/100km) but it rarely goes below 30mpg (9.3l/100km) on average, only on cold mornings and city driving (when I say cold mornings I mean -1 or less)