Aarons MK1 Octavia vRS

[veedubnoodle]

@Steve Cheers for the heads up dude. Was actually looking at those last night thinking I should probably replace them too lol

 

[Steve]

It was the little one that split on me, but got them both. The large one replaces one pipe plus a plastic T piece. There is a one way valve in the T piece to swap over that can be easily missed.

 

[veedubnoodle]

No real updates on this aside from the Skoda passed MOT on Saturday (just needed anti-roll bar bushes) ...

...and the Mazda has decided it doesn't need a clutch pedal anymore

Think it maybe needs a slave cylinder as the pedal has been slowly losing travel over the last week so it must be drawing in air.

 

[roverspeed]

i love those wheels, they just look so "right"

I would say its 99% sure its the slave cylinder on the mx5. luckily, cheap and easy to do

 

[veedubnoodle]

@roverspeed Cheers dude. So many people mention the wheels when they see it, even the MOT inspector did lol!

Slave cylinder bought already so hopefully get looking at it some night this week

 

[roverspeed]

@veedubnoodle

Can i ask, do you know what colour you had the wheels done? I am getting my Insignia wheels done and its the closest i have seen to the shade I would like for them.

 

[veedubnoodle]

@veedubnoodle

Can i ask, do you know what colour you had the wheels done? I am getting my Insignia wheels done and its the closest i have seen to the shade I would like for them.

Sorry dude, I ordered them in that colour from Rota so it's just their standard gunmetal finish.

 

[roverspeed]

no worries, cheers. I will get a picture of their website and give it to the guy doing it.

 

[veedubnoodle]

Just remembered I got the Mazda fixed on Wednesday night, it was the slave cylinder. Might have pulled the exhaust in two getting it onto the ramp (forgot my planks of wood) but put it back together with a new clamp so it's all good

This means I can take the Skoda off the road and finally have a go at deleting the SAI pump and put my new over-sized silicone TIP on

 

[Gobsheene]

@veedubnoodle

Can i ask, do you know what colour you had the wheels done? I am getting my Insignia wheels done and its the closest i have seen to the shade I would like for them.

Aaron can correct me here, but I think they came that colour?

I'm a bit of a fan of darker coloured wheels and have had 4 colours with my latest being my favourite so far.

The Focus I had Kris @ SQD paint the ST wheels a colour he was doing alot of his wheels at the time, I beleive he said it was an Audi colour:

The Clio, i had done Honda Cosmic Grey

Fabia I done myself in Rover Steel Grey, i think this would be closest to what you're looking?

And the Octavia I've had done BMW Ferric Grey 2.

Heres them on @browne174s Octavia a good comparision to Aarons

Sorry for the thread hijack!

 

[roverspeed]

Rover steel grey looks like a good job.

Intially I didn't want a really high gloss, but the wheels on the VRS have changed my mind. The deep gloss looks awesome. I imagine it makes them easier to clean too.

 

[davey-dimples]

Links in first post are broken now

Awesome car though ... love the shape of these

 

[veedubnoodle]

Dunno what's up with the links on the first page. Can't even remember what I had linked them from, probably Facebook

 

[davey-dimples]

Dunno what's up with the links on the first page. Can't even remember what I had linked them from, probably Facebook

I think it happened to me when I linked to pics on FB I had in Mobile uploads then moved them to their own folder for the car.

 

[veedubnoodle]

@davey-dimples Ahhh that's probably what it is. I'll have a look at it later when I'm not in work

 

[davey-dimples]

@davey-dimples Ahhh that's probably what it is. I'll have a look at it later when I'm not in work

Ill just have to look at all those in the eBay classifieds until then

The boss will kill me if I bring another car home ... lol

 

[browne174]

Rover steel grey looks like a good job.

Intially I didn't want a really high gloss, but the wheels on the VRS have changed my mind. The deep gloss looks awesome. I imagine it makes them easier to clean too.

For the love of God, go gloss.

My current octavia came with a set of satin finished wheels and they are a hateful thing to clean and even when they are clean, they look dull

 

[roverspeed]

For the love of God, go gloss.

My current octavia came with a set of satin finished wheels and they are a hateful thing to clean and even when they are clean, they look dull

Yeah I feel you, the wheels on my Passat were satin and about 5 minutes after cleaning they were bogging again