Great vid! Just noticed my bump stops are destroyed on my Octavia today when renewing the rear brakes. Can I ask, when you remove the mount from the top of the shock, is that a 16mm, and also the bit where you hold it in the middle is that a hex or something similar to the front shocks? Lastly, what are you using as a jacking point from the rear (purely cos that looks a lot simpler!)? Many thanks.
At the top of the shock there is just a flat piece that can be held with the Knipex pliers (like I did), it can be briefly seen at 1:15. My another would-be approach (if the Knipex failed) was to degrease the upper part of the piston, wrap it in some old bicycle tube/rubber, secure it in a vice and then just remove the nut (which is 16 mm). And good point about the jacking point, I thought it might seem confusing. I jacked it by the tow hook, which is bolted onto the frame. I dont actually know whether or not is that frowned upon, but I've been doing it for years with no issues. It lifts both of the wheel at the same time so it saves some time when doing regular tire changes. If you just want to change the bump stops, it should be enough to lift the car by the regular jacking point (where I have the jack stand), put something under the axle arm (to be sure, otherwise it shouldn't go anywhere). You have to use flat wrench on the shock's bottom bolt, but it's doable. On the other side of the car (which I did first before this video), I took the shock off first and only then started figuring out what to do with the spring.
@@carsandtools cheers for the reply! And I hope my query about the jacking point didn't come across as a criticism...it's certainly not frowned upon by me!
@@walruspolish Haha, no, that's not what I meant. :) Just that I am not 100% sure whether or not it could possibly damage something. But given that it's bolted into the rear frame and is capable of pulling 1300 kg trailers, I think it should be fine (after all, I wouldn't use it if I thought otherwise). Few years ago there was a discussion at some Skoda forum about retrofitting jacking points from Audi A3 (Google "audi a3 octavia jack points retrofit") onto the Octavia 2. Some argued that those can be retrofitted, however should not be used for floor jacks, because those points are only meant for lifting the car on a 4-point lift, meaning the whole weight of the vehicle is distributed across those four points, whereas when using floor jack at that point, the majority of the vehicle weight is concentrated only on that one point and could cause damage, so... I still know loads of people who use those anyway with floor jacks without any apparent damage, but the argument about not doing so certainly has some good reason to it. :D
Great vid! Just noticed my bump stops are destroyed on my Octavia today when renewing the rear brakes.
Can I ask, when you remove the mount from the top of the shock, is that a 16mm, and also the bit where you hold it in the middle is that a hex or something similar to the front shocks? Lastly, what are you using as a jacking point from the rear (purely cos that looks a lot simpler!)? Many thanks.
At the top of the shock there is just a flat piece that can be held with the Knipex pliers (like I did), it can be briefly seen at 1:15. My another would-be approach (if the Knipex failed) was to degrease the upper part of the piston, wrap it in some old bicycle tube/rubber, secure it in a vice and then just remove the nut (which is 16 mm).
And good point about the jacking point, I thought it might seem confusing. I jacked it by the tow hook, which is bolted onto the frame. I dont actually know whether or not is that frowned upon, but I've been doing it for years with no issues. It lifts both of the wheel at the same time so it saves some time when doing regular tire changes.
If you just want to change the bump stops, it should be enough to lift the car by the regular jacking point (where I have the jack stand), put something under the axle arm (to be sure, otherwise it shouldn't go anywhere). You have to use flat wrench on the shock's bottom bolt, but it's doable. On the other side of the car (which I did first before this video), I took the shock off first and only then started figuring out what to do with the spring.
@@carsandtools cheers for the reply! And I hope my query about the jacking point didn't come across as a criticism...it's certainly not frowned upon by me!
@@walruspolish Haha, no, that's not what I meant. :) Just that I am not 100% sure whether or not it could possibly damage something. But given that it's bolted into the rear frame and is capable of pulling 1300 kg trailers, I think it should be fine (after all, I wouldn't use it if I thought otherwise).
Few years ago there was a discussion at some Skoda forum about retrofitting jacking points from Audi A3 (Google "audi a3 octavia jack points retrofit") onto the Octavia 2. Some argued that those can be retrofitted, however should not be used for floor jacks, because those points are only meant for lifting the car on a 4-point lift, meaning the whole weight of the vehicle is distributed across those four points, whereas when using floor jack at that point, the majority of the vehicle weight is concentrated only on that one point and could cause damage, so... I still know loads of people who use those anyway with floor jacks without any apparent damage, but the argument about not doing so certainly has some good reason to it. :D