Originally Posted by
2009fsi
All you need to do is trim a cresent shaped piece out of that stupid little plastic lip which protrudes into the wheel well by about 1cm. Dead easy a little Dremel cutting wheel in a small Milwaulke inline drill I have. Then you need take a Stanley knife & trim the excess off the black foam block Skoda uses to fill the void when the billy cart tyre is in there. If you have a 235/40s on the 19"rim, it is not noticeable when the boot floor is in place. there is soft material on the under side of that floor which fairly quickly settles into the shape anyway. We are only talking millimetres.
I have 245 Conti 6s on the car & it sits about 1cm above the wheel well, but same story, the boot floor quickly settle to be not noticeable. I got a sheet of about 8mm thick felt underlay & cut the wheel well out of the centre. That was all it took to have completely flat floor. I did need to trim a little more of that plastic protrusion off for the 245 & always slide the rear side of the spare in first , just so I don't get any hangup on the residual of that plastic lip..