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The McMurty mini Batmobile. What a weapon! Fantastic small size and apparently under 1,000kg. 2+ tonnes of downforce. It also goes like, well, nothing I've seen recently. Its small size at Goodwood has been an absolute advantage, as has the amazing, committed drive by the two racers that share duties in it. Max Chilton drives it tomorrow in the hill climb and today, Alex Summers became the second fastest man up the hill. I can't find the run from today - yet, but it's worth looking for as it will become available soon. Yesterdays run is below (unfortunately you can't see the fan assisted start, it's simply nuts). Also note the cameraperson is confused at the speed of the thing at the top of the hill!

It’s a long and boring story, that I won’t inflict on people, but I am now without my lovely Octavia, despite it never being planned that way. Instead, I find myself the owner of a Kamiq - a somewhat bemused owner as until ten days ago I hadn’t even heard of them! FFS, who though that was a suitable name for a car? Even worse, having driven diesel for forty years or so, it turns out it’s a bloody petrol! No surprise then that in addition, I’ve gone the whole hog and got a DSG. I need to take time to reflect on the error of my ways, but this post is simply to thank the various people on this forum who over a number of years have added to the enjoyment of Octavia ownership by freely sharing their knowledge, experience and great expertise, all of which has been of considerable help to me and, I know, to many others. Obviously I am now heading off to the Kamiq forum (I’m sure it must be busier than it seems at first sight), but many thanks and best wishes to all here.

lol I take a guess at door loom related problems !!!

Dropped tank at The Surgery for some surgery https://www.thesurgery.co.nz/ Plan is to cut a hole, remove gauze filter, treat rust and coat the inside, weld a breather elbow on the cut-out piece then repair. Another elbow on the filler and connect with fuel hose. Also there's a small leak in the weld connecting filler to tank which was covered by black silicone !! Looks like the filler neck isn't original to that tank. I suspect it has been repaired and they've blocked or cut the internal filler vent. In the meantime, bit of cleanup. The remaining stuff is old rust protection I don't want to scrape off. I also found a seatbelt bolt wedged in the corner! And some new hoses that actually bend, for the fuel return and breather connection.

They're all frauds so I guess we'll have to wait for the OP...

A Clairvoyant.

Found the run. The start is utterly crazy and so addictive to watch. I would love to know how many Gs the driver is feeling.

I still can't get over the mini Batmobile. I know that EVs have a party piece of short term acceleration, but the lightweight and incredible downforce of the McMurty is astonishing, even compared to old school racers. It could do with flames out of the back, as it looks like it's jet propelled with the dust plume it drags around with itself. I suspect it doesn't have a great range though Btw does anyone else think the Travis Hoonigan thingy looks like a Lancia Delta?

I watched it this afternoon amanda ,what a machine that is ,you can visibly see its so much quicker than the rest of the field ,the driver has to keep his eyes wide open there wasnt time for him to blink 👍

Your A/C compressor is driven by the engine, so can do nothing to produce any cooling at all when the engine is not running.

Are but EVs have **** range though. I did most of that distance in one go with just two 5 minutes stops. EVs are incapable of doing that unless you want to >£50k which is outside of my and many other people's price range. And the 8h 55 is a combination of 2 days driving. I mean if I'm doing 340 miles in a day I don't want to stop for 30 mins to recharge the stupid car when I can add another 330 or more miles of travel in about 3½ mins to fill up my tank.

Hiya all, I put 112k miles on an '03 SDi and was impressed with the old Octavias reliability and ruggedness. Always wished the SDi was a TDi 90 instead. Wish was granted last September when I came accross this '05 TDi 90 that was irratating the garage owner as his son had it laying in his yard for too long. Offered 200 quid for it on condition I got the tax book before money was exchanged. It was heading for the crusher. What swung it for me was when I seen uncracked factory windshield. Got it for 200 and drove it home with no brakes! Of course I had a friend in another car as an escort, am not that bad. Personally I don't give a hoot about flashy cars and finance is 'agin me religion, car finance vs beer, obvious winner. So I've been working on this ALH engined Octavia and got her through the test in May. Sold the trusty old SDi, hope its never scrapped and ends up a farmard donkey. Anyhow I believe this yoke may be one of the last ALH engines Octavias. Registered Sept '05 and I see on parts listings that October '05 on they had the PDi engine. Its classic spec but has electric windows and that pain in the neck rem central locking with deadlocks. Colour coded handles and mirrors. So is this a crossover I wonder? I know a couple of guys that has '05 TDi Octavias and they are per the old 03 SDi, manual windows and so-on. Anyhow this car has been sprayed and none the worse for it. Waxed it and the gleam of it is like a 3 year old car. Having lots of fun codding young fellas, ''aye this is the latest shape Skoda'' you'd be suprized how many bite! 🙂 The Octavia 1U2 is probabbly the most reliable and long lasting car ever built or ever will be built. The MK2 is a good car, just not as tough as the 1. So I was always harping on when the subject of cars and thier expense came up, you'd be better puttong money into something golden era (1998 technology and build) rather than something 10-15 years younger that will only cost a lot more to maintain. I just don't like 2010s cars, pointy dashboards, too much electronics, weak engines, they are just annoying. Also the steel on VW group yokes has not been right since end of MK4 Golf era. Octavia 1 vs MK4 Golf. Take a look at the metal behing their respective bumpers. Octavia is the daddy. Oh and pre-PD engines are flexi-fuel 😉 So got it into a friends yard, a field, and 'tore into her' nose off gear box and manifolds off, wings off and back brakes completely removed, rotten and banjaxed backplates. Re-lined the clutch plate, 176k miles a wise move before it disintegrated and then takes the DMF with it. DMF was fine - well wasnt getting one anyhow! Yes of course I wire-wooled the pressure and flywheel surfaces. New driveshafts - cheap J&R as fine so long as you put more grease into them. Gas struts, new front springs. 55 notes for a new cat/downpipe - handy when a much cheaper E2 cat will fit and saves bother welding, then welding again. o/s wishbone, set of front wheel bearings, radiator, fixed a leak on the oil filter tower, cleaned out the EGR muck, fixed front electric windows and completely re-built the rear drums including back plates. So I practiced what I preached. Last time I change a clutch in a field though. Right so noe 5k miles on this scrapyard special. As expected with a yoke snatched from the jaws of the crusher a couple of new faults. Had to chance the n/s hub and them damn deadlocks. Despite greasing and oiling the mechanisim when I did the window runners the passinger door is become a pain. So a couple of questions. 1. Is this a crossover? 2. What is best way of removing the alarm and dead lock system? 3. If i rid her of the EGR (yes i know it needs re-mapped) would it be of much advantage? Thank you kindly. Fate has decided I am to spend 10 years of my life in a red Octavia 1. Wouldnt drive anything else.

There is indeed but its not likely to be far out unless the factory was at the top of Mount Everest and didn't have a calibrated test chamber, they wander in service anyway, I frequently redo the adaptation and the offset value is always different probably dependant on the atmospheric pressure that day. I should really do it at sea level and when the atmospheric pressure is bang on 1000 millibars.

e-Velo bike ((((replacement for Tredz bike lost in transit on Wednesday))))) arrived safe and sound yesterday morning, delivered in a Fed Ex liveried van. ((seems they are taking over TNT I think)). However, discussing the events of Wednesdays missing delivery with the Fed Ex driver, he tried telling me that the scanners that they use are THAT POWERFUL that it can read other items at the same time or instead of the intended item and that that would be what happened ................ seriously, Lol ................ If that were the case then how come it was signed for at the uni with a FAKE NAME ............. I smell BS ......................... A lot of it. I just have to hope that Paypal are happy to cancel the order from Tredz and hoping they get the bike back from TNT. Thanks again for your input guys.

Everything, sills, inner sills, wings etc were all cut off with a club hammer and bolster chisel, the one that is still in my toolbox today and I used yesterday & will today for removing render while replacing windows. No angle grinders, nibblers or air shears then, the knuckle of my left index finger used to get a beating all the time while swinging the hammer in the gloom under a jacked up car with my legs sticking out in the road.

Thanks for messaging. I agree with getting the sills fully replaced, I wouldn't of bothered patching them anyway. I have it booked in to a local garage who reckons he can weld in two new sills for circa £400. I'l just see what he says when he sees the damage in person. Thanks again for the advice. I see, I'm hoping it's not just the tip of the iceberg because when I used to go to a garage for MOT's a couple of years back, they used to spray the underneath of the car with some kind of rust inhibitor of something, probably just old oil because I don't think it was the proper underseal. But I'm hoping that may of stopped the rust from spreading out further than the sills. As I said to VanhireBoys, I have it booked in to a local garage for him to inspect the damage and give me a more accurate quote, he said on the phone roughly £400 so I'll take see what he says it from there. I did message a body shop nearby but they didn't reply so I wonder if it's because they don't want to touch this kind of job due to the iceberg theory. Thanks for your advice, Tom

I have tried thanks and I’m only getting versions with similar numbers. They’re over £80 from the dealership 😭 Can I thank you and UrbanPanzer for taking the time to reply 😊👍

Went to a bird of prey centre this morning for a photo session. I was the only participant so had a one to one with the pro togger. We ended up righting the wrongs of the world particularly broken Britain.. we decided it’s our fault because we feed the seagulls! Lol A few snaps below.

Erm, nope. I've been conscripted into substantial DIY renovations at home, structural work, new Kitchen etc so the Fabia is languishing in the garage under the cover still. I'm being nagged at now by everyone to get it finished and on the road soon, so hopefully it'll be mobile this year. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.... In other news I sold my 1969 Mini and replaced it with a 1991 Mercedes-Benz 260e W124, so with that being nearer the garage door is being used for local shows and classic meets etc, further pushing the Fabia into retirement.

Patching that hole will work for a while but next year will be as bad as ever and the car will surely fail again. Albeit a different vehicle but I've seen patching done to Porsche 944's and 924's and this ends up with the car needing both sills. With this done properly and properly sealed it lasts very well. As I said the last of the 944 is 10 years older than the oldest Polo/Fabia so not a good example !! I say get 2 brand new sills front to back and get a good bodyshop to weld them in and seal them properly - Otherwise patch it up test and flog or scrap altogether As Ryan alluded to if you like her, she is mechanically stable and you intend on driving her on for many more years then 2 sills it is !

I have a small luxury car washing business and it is doing quite well so I'm thinking of opening a second location so if anyone has any articles/ blogs i can read on expanding small business that would be a massive help thanks

That is the automatic self destruct Lombard version in the photograph. Go for it, I'm sure they are as much in need of a good laugh as anyone! Sorry to make fun but I just cant stop laughing after looking at the photo to find out what the heck a Lombard was!

Chuffin' heck that was quick! 😎 G

Top guess.

2009 owners manual attached fabia_2009.pdf

It's not illegal to bypass the sensor, it's just dumb, the sensor tells the ECU when to regen the DPF, without it your DPF will just clog up until the engine stops running.

Give us the list!

But I live in England, I have need or intentions of driving or visiting Scotland. Visited by train which costs me nothing apart from £2 or so on the tube. In fact I can do 997 for that amount 😁

I wouldnt say thats a security issue. And it seems like thats more than likely they havent coded the kessy correctly. The immobilizer is programmed correctly but not the kessy module to recognize the key.

What are the other problems?

Great to have you on board. I 've never owned a Fabia but thought your introduction to the Club was very interesting. I have a 21 Kamiq, a lovely car though the electronic gadgets are a mystery to me. I'm still trying to fathom out what Android Auto is but suppose I'll get there in the end. My first car was a 1958 Austin A35 a beautiful, basic car which became a dear friend. All the Best. DavidB123

To remove the covers I would probably do as an opportunist thief will. Put my hands into the gills, be sure no sharp edges to cut my hands. Pull off the wheel cover hoping it does not break. That is what will happen at tyre fitting centres as well. Unless the owners hand book says otherwise.

I think this is what happened to mine, I could barely see the impact but it caused the outer glass to start cracking and then off it went, probably with the thermal changes since it was over 35 Celsius on some days. Got I swapped at the local stealership under insurance but the work could have been a little more perfect, since I can see the black glue on 2 spots near the pillars... I'm a perfectionist and this annoys me... 😅

Thank you Mike. All of the late '05 onwards MK1 I've seen have the PD engine but you are probably right. I see 'POLAND' cast on the block so its likely they sent the tooling for the older external pump engines eastward about 2004. Whats interesting to me is as time and technology progressed the continued 1U2 Octavia became a late 1990s bubble as everything else got a lot more complex. As I said this Octavia was re-sprayed at some point. Irregular welding on the n/s inner guard and the wee bracket that locates the wing front is galvanised and un-sprayed, suggests it was hit on the n/s corner. Chassis legs are fine and the car is not 'crabbing' in any way. Pot luck, its a shiny old bus. Wasnt that much elbow grease required, just Turtle Wax Radiant Red. I reckon the deformed n/s hub (bearing carrier/knuckle) was something overlooked when it was repaired. Nothing wrong with the AXR PD engines, just they tend to need a DMF and can be a bit on the thirsty side. Here was a bit of lunacy, thats the last time I replace a clutch (plate) on the beaten earth! Oh that was a whole load of fun on a day without work.

In the late 70's and early 80's I worked most evenings and all weekends welding (mainly) sills & inner sills on Minis, 1100's Escorts etc etc, it was the only way I could continue my studys and appernticeship as my wages only just met the rent I had to pay. £25 for a sill including the part and underseal was the going rate then, double bubble if the inner sill needed doing, it was before the days of restoration so unless it was a collector if the inner membrane, the part that gives the most structural strength, was rotted it was simply left like that, the sill & inner sill would cover it! For Minis & 1100's they made sills that extended 3", 6" or 9" onto the rotted floorpan, they covered a multitude of sins and then even the inner sill was not replaced I was earning £16 gross, my first investment was a £75 trolley jack from Halfords (£62.50 with discount from the company motor club) I'm still using it today, then a BOC Portapak for £278 including 10 year cylinder rental contract, gas was very expensive even then, IIRC started at £11 then went up and up, these costs were quickly recouped. I watched an interview with Gordon Murray and he described doing exactly the same thing as me at the same age on the same vehicles and his price structure was the same!

190 map will be a big step up from the 150 so I reckon you’d be happy enough with that.. for now lol… when I traded my mapped 190 for the 272 I thought I’d made a mistake as they are quite lazy up to 4k revs where as the diesel has everything up to that.. after the map tho the 272 has the same torque as my mapped diesel did. Diesel and petrol maps attached. get the box done too as you can see on both graphs the wiggly line which is the box limiting the torque

Couple of cheaper options here Volkswagen / Audi / Seat / Skoda Pressure Difference Sender 059906051C - LLLParts

One for £70 here, but not sure if delivery extra Diesel Particulate Filter Pressure Difference Sensor 059906051C - Audi Parts Direct

It’s not necessarily the size of the item, but the shape. A sharp edge impacting the screen at exactly the right angle can crack through the entire outer screen glass which, because it’s under the most stress (40% of the cars structural integrity is provided by the glass) and through the glass flexing, this can cause a fracture to start to creep across the screen.

Received and fitted

That works so well 👍

Just a thought when you replace the clutch. The rear engine oil seal is known to be weak, so it might be worth having them replace that at the same time. You also don't want to have happen to you that happened to me. I had fitted £1700 worth of performance clutch and DMF on under 30k miles. After a couple of months the gearbox input shaft oil seal went and ruined all those new parts with clutch slip heat marks. so back to the specialist and I had to pay all that money again for the all those new parts to be replaced. So I would also have them replace the gearbox input shaft oil seal at the same time. I know extra expense, but not as much extra if it all goes wrong.

That sounds really very unlikely. The PAS system is pretty self-contained. Angle rate sensor plugs straight into PAS module; permanent power wiring; an ignition-on wire and a pair of CAN data lines is the totality of the system electrically.

https://www.skoda-parts.com/online-store.html

Tough one.... I'd be inclined to not accept the one that was delivered to the Uni....could be anything in there. Bearing in mind we're talking large items and high value, the less risk you take the better nowadays

My 2017 4 pot 1.2 sel broke down with epc light overpowering smell of fuel, leaking from fuel rail on left of engine, yet to pull apart to confirm if seal on injector or bolt problem, recovery guy said he’s seen a few recently. So it’s an ongoing problem still. Thanks for everyone’s posts.

he probably mean 3 years not 3 months 😁

Wow! it's so quiet around here that we can almost hear the door panels being built...