the haldex will die if you take the front drive shafts out!

I know its not the same, but tuned vauxhall 4x4 cars (with haldex) kill the haldex unit all the time!

plus the rear diff is not usually man enough to cope with all that power all of the time.

Its not a propper 4x4 system. Imagine it as a fwd car with the rwd part tacked on as an afterthought!

the haldex won't die, R32's have been known to run 600bhp+ on standard haldex's with nothing more than an oil cooler.

and if your talking about calibra/cavalier 4x4's then they didn't use the same system as the octavia, completely different.

I found the standard Haldex very slow, a lot of the time the traction control cuts in before the 4x4 so the two ways forward are to run with the ESP off, if you feel you need 4x4 or an upgraded Haldex unit with better response time.

Was this the 1st or 2nd generation Haldex? Does anybody know if things are any better now?

R.