I had a blowout on the way home from work which totally destroyed the front OSF tyre, so rather than replace the one I decided to replace the 235/40x18 tyres with the correct size for the Octavia even though the other 3 tyres had loads of life left. So out went the cheapo Accellera tyres in 235/40x18 and in came the cheapo Capitol branded tyres in...
August saw a trip down to Genoa Italy for the Octy, we travelled down the east side of France, around the southern part of Switzerland and entered Italy via the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Italy was very hot with daytime temps well into the 30s and dropping to 29c at night. On the return leg we visited the old F1 circuit at Reims for a second time and this...
June 2009 and its off to the Costa Del Sol. We travelled via Calais, Rouen, Bordeaux, Madrid all the way down to Malaga where we spent nearly 2 weeks. We visited lots of places along the coast and went to Granada, Nerja and Gibraltar. The trip went ok with a total mileage travelled of 3819 miles.
April also saw the replacement of the Alloy Wheels with 18" RS6 replicas, the OEM wheels were getting a little tired and needed new tyres. These wheels came up for sale and were cheaper than the tyres needed at the time.
Easter 2009 and its off to Luxembourg and Germany for the week after the bank holiday. The weather for this trip was very warm, and we travelled down via France and Belgium into Luxembourg.
September 2008 saw a weekend break in Great Yarmouth, no pictures of the car though. September also saw the installation of a Columbus Navigation unit to replace the Audience Headunit.
June 2008 saw my cars first trip down to spain, only as far as Madrid this time due to time constraints. The journey was Via Boulogne, Rouen, Bordeaux to Madrid, After a week it was time to return to the UK reversing the route we took driving down. The picture is in the hotel carpark where it was raining. Total mileage for this trip was just over...
Easter 2007 saw another european trip, this time down to Germany and the infamous Nurburgring. We travelled down through Belgium and across country to Bonn and the ring itself. The journey back was via Luxembourg and France. The car was not driven on the ring, but instead viewing others was the order of the day.
Just one week into my ownership and its time for the first long distance trip. We set off for Southern France via Dunkirque, we travelled down via Paris and the Millau bridge before arriving in Narbonne where a few days were spent before travelling back via Montpellier, Lyon and Reims.
My octavia was purchased by me secondhand in September 2006 with 14K miles on the clock, she is a 2005(55) reg. 2.0TDi PD140 Elegance in Sahara Beige Metallic wuth Onyx cloth interior.
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