skoda octavia

Hi Chris, as I understand it, the red letters on VAG turbo diesel engines represents a different level of power output. To find out the power output of an engine in an Octavia, lift up the carpet in the boot, as you would if you were accessing the spare tyre, and look for a piece of paper stuck to the metal floor of the boot between the spare wheel well and the passenger side rear light cluster (I hope I explained that clearly enough, but something tells me I didn't...) This paper has paint codes, trim levels etc coded on to it, the engine power is dead easy to spot as it had KW printed after it (KW is for kilowatts) to convert kilowatts into BHP, multiply it by 1.34. For example, my 1.6 petrol Octavia has about 74KW which equals about 99 horsepower.

Cheers.

Hello,

All the technical data is on the arkers website. i would have the Octavia RS - you're probably buying a VW with a different badge. people seem less snobby about the Skoda now. if only they would change the crap looking badge\!

:-(

I quite like the badge!

The Winged Arrow is all that is left of what Skoda is. They used to use a Blue Oval, but a more common brand chose to use that as well as the RS model brand, so they needed something else altogether more impressive looking.

Gerrof, it's a green pigeon.

Oh I dunno, some BMW driver has punted a Skoda off the road on the M27 and killed the passenger in the Skoda. Obviously some people take badge snobbery a bit too far.

It was white on earlier badges. I always though it was meant to be a bird in flight, but nope. It is a winged arrow, chosen for the speed and straight driving (remember, Skoda were involved in motorsport (not always cars) before Ford had worked out how to fasten the wheels on straight.

all silver TDI - 90bhp Red I - 110bhp RED DI- 115 or 130 bhp Pumpe Duse. Not sure how to tell which though.

Tim..

Post of the day.

Fraser

Relative performance? :)

Skoda Motorsport Pre-Vag was a Czech team and won everything it entered. Now it is classed as a German team, and has won bugger all in years, and keeps shuffling drivers every season, and nobody gets a chance to get used to the car.

When it passes you, you get a chance to look.

Nothing to do with them now having to compete at a more competitive level then, is it...

Well the 110 has a relative 20bhp more than the 90 and 20 less than the 130. ;)

Aye, they did good.

Hmmmmmm. Pattern maybe?

No no, what I was saying was that the 115 PS version won't be quite as quick as the 130, that's how you tell on the road...?

So I should pull over for them, then? :)