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If they can be failed for yellowing then surely to god they should be failed for being green :p That's the towing loop, all the kool kids have them Also was I the only one who thought the mistaken plate being published was funnier than the actual one? I'll get my coat.

Yes! I already have a new Quaife diff in the garage, another NQS BBK and am jumping on group buys ahead of time for bits and pieces and to save money. If I can sell my current car as is then great; if not I can take things like the Twintercooler and use it on the new car and sell other parts. Either way, the new car will be getting K04'd with delivery miles on the clock!

Just had this sent on Facebook. Made me LOL. So even cars have started being rude then....! Dave

Why is the tow strap on the wrong side of the car? :think: If you attempt to tow the car with that...you'll just rip the bumper off.

See, the problem is that God gave me a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Me? I'm just a lawn mower, you can tell me by the way I walk.

Don't, just don't. Unless you have deep pockets for a complete fuelling system replacement/rebuild. That is all.

Too many people on here s%$^ them selves when people come on and say they got anything over 220 - 230... end of the day a rolling road is not fact its an indication to the power output. What 258 bhp / 355 lbs ft basically means is: his fabia will rip your face off lol.

The Grim Reaper came for me last night, and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner. Talk about Dyson with death. A mate of mine recently admitted to being addicted to brake fluid. When I quizzed him on it he reckoned he could stop any time. I went to the cemetery yesterday to lay some flowers on a grave. As I was standing there I noticed 4 grave diggers walking about with a coffin, 3 hours later and they're still walking about with it. I thought to myself, they've lost the plot! My daughter asked me for a pet spider for her birthday, so I went to our local pet shop and they were £70! Blow this, I thought, I can get one cheaper off the web. I was at an ATM yesterday when a little old lady asked if I could check her balance, so I pushed her over. I start a new job in Seoul next week. I thought it was a good Korea move. I was driving this morning when I saw an AA van parked up. The driver was sobbing uncontrollably and looked very miserable. I thought to myself, that guy's heading for a breakdown. My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning, can you believe that,2:30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my Bagpipes. Paddy says "Mick, I'm thinking of buying aLabrador ." Sod that says Mick "have you seen how many of their owners go blind?" Man calls 999 and says "I think my wife is dead" The operator says how do you know? He says "The sex is the same but the ironing is building up!" I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice!! At least I presume she was poor - she only had £1.20 in her purse. I woke up last night to find the ghost of Gloria Gaynor standing at the foot of my bed. At first I was afraid.......then I was petrified. A wife says to her husband you're always pushing me around and talking behind my back. He says what do you expect? You're in a wheelchair. I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said I would like to come back as a cow. I said you're obviously not listening. The wife has been missing a week now. Police said to prepare for the worst. So I have been to the charity shop to get all her clothes back. The wife was counting all the 1ps and 2ps out on the kitchen table when she suddenly got very angry and started shouting and crying for no reason. I thought to myself, "She's going through the change." When I was in the pub I heard a couple of plonkas saying that they wouldn't feel safe on an aircraft if they knew the pilot was a woman. What a pair of sexist pigs. I mean, it's not as if she'd have to reverse the bloomin thing Local Police hunting the 'knitting needle nutter', who has stabbed six people in the village in the last 48 hours, believe the attacker could be following some kind of pattern. Bought some 'rocket salad' yesterday but it went off before I could eat it! A teddy bear is working on a building site. He goes for a tea break and when he returns he notices his pick has been stolen. The bear is angry and reports the theft to the foreman. The foreman grins at the bear and says "Oh, I forgot to tell you, today's the day the teddy bears have their picks nicked Just got back from my mate's funeral. He died after being hit on the head with a tennis ball. It was a lovely service.

Hi everyone, Ive been a member of the site for a while but havent posted much, anyway, yesterday I traded in my 2008 2.0tdi dsg elegance for a 2008 1.8tsi manual elegance. I had the 2.0 tdi remapped f by Viezu, not mentioned much on here but I found the map to be very smooth, and having taken the map off when changing the car it adds a noticeable amount of power, leaving the car feeling quite flat without it. I just though I'd write a quick review of how the two cars compare, because when I was looking to change I was very unsure of whether or not to go for the petrol. Having read many reviews on here I went for it, and I'm glad I did. My main worry was that the 1.8 wouldnt have the torque of the diesel, and at the end of the day it cant quite match it in this respect. However, it never feels lacking for torque, even from low revs, and I dont find myself having to change down unless I want to overtake or whatever, which I probably would have done in the diesel anyway. Note that on the motorway at 60/70 either car is happy to pull out for an overtake in 6th. When the revs build and the turbo is on song the car really pulls, and although not scientific, it certainly looks and feels as though it would outstrip the 2.0 tdi, especially as the speed increases. Economy was anther factor, and again, although not scientific, the diesel did 50mpg on the 100+ mile trip to pick up the car, and the petrol did 42mpg on the way back. (both according to the onboard computer) Both journeys were mainly motorway and cruise controlled at 70. Obviously I did test the 1.8 at every opportunity!! Until driving the 1.8 I always read the comments about the pd diesels having a lump of torque then running out of steam quickly with a pinch of salt, because it felt perfectly smooth to me, however, having driven the tsi for a few days, my opinion is that it is much smoother (and quieter) and gives a better driving experience because of it. The engine really is a peach, and for anyone else out there torn between petrol and diesel I can definatley recommend you give the petrol a chance! I dont want this review to sound as though I'm bashing the TDI because that was a brilliant car in its own right, I loved the low down torque and the DSG box complements the engine really well. For the performance/economy its a great engine, and had I been doing more miles in a year (I do about 10k) it would have been another diesel for me. In summary: 1.8 tsi + faster, smoother, quiter - economy, but doesnt seem too bad so far. 2.0 tdi + bags of torque, easy to drive - noisy, runs out of steam Harry.

Sorry guys yet another question from me. Is it possible to get dump valves for the MKII VRS? I went on demon tweeks jsut but they only do it for the MK I ? Surely not?

Initial long range forecast (from what I can tell) suggests high pressure building from the west toward the end of the weekend, so hopefully calm and dry conditions for Monday?

The 2013 models for most manufacturers are delivered in May of the previous year just to confuse things. As cars are some stored in customs warehouses ie car parks near ports and they can sometimes be there for months or even a year or two. I have been in control of up to 50,000 cars as a customs officer in charge of such facilities and if some people only new what they were getting when the ordered a "new" car. Newly registered but sat by the sea for months and months in some cases.

Remap it to stage1 and see how 1.8 will come to life and surprise you

Ohh some inflation... that kind of happens when you print money. Now who was it that started the 'it's not prointing money, it's quantative easing'. At the end of the day, the figures are not revised yet and the whole thing is neither here or there in my opinion. Most of the hit, came from a sector that needs to contract and have a few companies die off (Construction). The people should well get re-employed by the remaining companies, but there are so many construction companies out there, for a much more limited number of people/companies wanting to build.

I was giving advice to Matt, as he asked the question. If you wish to ignore it then you are free to do so. And as this an open forum what is discussed is not up to you.

FPR is on the top of the engine and there is a few different routes you can take. look in my build thread or use the search function on the forum to help you out.

I hope I go the same way as my grandad who died peacefully in his sleep - unlike his passengers. I changed the name of my iPod to Titanic, it's just started synching. I dropped out of communism class after lousy Marx Jokes about German sausage are the wurst

Ummm... You'll want to change it when it's cold, hot engines have hot coolant and it comes out all over your hand, even more so when picking out the stinking old o ring which usually stays stuck in place. Even when stone cold and unused for days there will still be coolant in the pipes, the header is above this as is the top of the rad, so you are going to lose coolant, well it is and you do on the TDI. If you're lucky you won't lose too much. Check the header tank, probably after running the engine for a minute or so and see where the level is. If it needs topping, use the right stuff, pink not blue, rating I can't recall but someone on here will. Tom

I imagine that a similar effect could be acheived with some 'sticky backed plastic' and some old Quality Street wrappers.

That's manual air conditioning, same as on our MY2012 SE. This is Climatic on our MY2009 Fabia 2. Climatic has the two sensors either side of the aircon/recycle air switches, climatic under the fan speed switch and a C under the temperature selector with the temerature figures 16, 22, and 28 in degrees centigrade around the temp dial. Cheers Lee

No country for old men Jesus make it harder lol

I now have a helmet Just need to acquire some balls from somewhere :-)

Tiger upset bear eating snake C O P Y D

Right lets just Clarify something rather than people being fed duff info. There is no way of knowing if your car is mappable via OBD just by telling someone on the internet what model engine it is. Firstly - Although Skoda still insist on calling it a TFSi unit. The FL vRS have a 2.0TSi unit. If you don't beleive me open the bonnet and look at the engine. IIRC from 09 onwards they were TSi Secondly - It is the ECU revision & software which will dictate wether or not it is a Bench Flash or mappable via OBD port. As i have already said my 2011 2.0 TSi vRS was mappable through the OBD Port. However a 2011 61 Plate 2.0TSi vRS had to be bench flashed. So it is the luck of the draw. Depending on who you use will depend on how the bench flash works. Some do it so that they bench flash and then all alterations are done via OBD. Others do it by bench falsh only Hope that helps

Iv got the forge atmospheric one and its the most anoyying thing ever, soon as you lift ohh you get a loud "pssshhhtttt" noise and everyone outside tha car turns around expecting to see a bus braking

I would think that towing preparation doesn't feature very highly in Skoda's idea of desirable selling points compared to the likes of Bi-Xenon headlights, electric seats, built-in sat nav etc; to all intents and purposes the preparation is invisible so I don't suppose they are going to make a big deal of it. However, the topic is tow bar costs, so - can the cost of the towing preparation be justified? Assuming that the additional wiring loom and coding ( and ignoring the bumper cut out for now ) is included in the tow bar fitting costs then, if the intention is to tow a small trailer, I don't think the cost is justified. If the intention is to tow a caravan I would have to say yes it is justified if only because of the larger cooling fan. As Graham says, the designers wouldn't specify a larger fan just for the sake of it; bearing in mind that the Yeti can tow up to 2000kg? ( according to the car configurator ) which is a fair size both in terms of weight and wind resistance I have to say though that I tow a caravan of a similar weight to Graham's with a high mileage 12 year old Vauxhall Astra, the engine of which is somewhat less powerful than the Yeti options. Yes, the temperature gauge does creep up on long motorway gradients but it's never gone high enough for the electric cooling fan to cut in - do diesel engines run hotter than petrol? Actually, I think I'm convincing myself here to go for the towing preparation! - it's just that darned bumper cut out :think: Regards, Lee.

I absolutely love this one

xxx?? 10 = normal (heavy cars) 20 = Polo 9N GTI (6R GTI is 21) 30 = Komfort (heavy cars) 40 = normal (light cars) 41 = F² 5J RS 50 = Komfort (light cars) 51 = Audi 8X A1 60 = Mobility help

lemme look it up there was a huge thread on the german forum about steering adjustment on the F mk2

Here you go then

Sorry full monte I wasn't meaning it in a funny way... Just because I am also thinking of doing it. And knowing me I will need a new lining lol x

Oldest trick in the book. Surprising how many times it works.

Here you go. Enjoy!

Or use an airline... Blow it out.

You get use to the idle - I upgraded to those items about 2 months back and can't complain FYI to anyone reading this and thinking of doing it them selves - buy the Powerflex bushes - the seat ones are a bugger to fit!

I'm going to play the happy fellow again, as some of you know I will Bought my vRS new, 27,000 miles now, no issues at all with engine or gearbox, no warrenty work done, and it doesn't use any oil ...

I'll second that! The Climatronic on the Fabia is a bag of s*ite. It doesnt seem to take any account of engine coolant temperature hence during winter its persistent habit of ramping up fan speeds to gale force when its stil stone cold - overriding any tweaks to turn the fan down. Conversly, when at temperature it also keeps ramping down fan speeds even after turning the damn thing up. You can spend more timing messing around with the controls than looking where you're driving during that first 4 minutes after a cold start. It often justs forgets its last fan speed setting when restarting the car - No.3 gale again. The fan is noisy and whines like heck. And who decided to use a control with 1/64 turn sensitivity? 1 out of 5 attempts at a single speed change either takes it the wrong way or it moves 3 or more speeds even though youe definitely only moved it one notch! Going from off to full speed is about 1/8 turn!!! For f** sake! And whoever thought that having AUTO and ECON displayed at the same time needs re-educating in a labour camp. The original semi-auto was ideal, but if I cant have that then I would choose manual every day over climatronic. If its not forced on you (elegance trim) then dont waste your money on it.

You are all a set of dirty old men (especially you brimma). Harassing a poor young lady over an innocent pic or two and all for a cheap thrill! You should be ashamed of yourselves. I think in the interest of all concerned the pics should be sent to me for destroying and the thread should be closed with immediate effect

Having had all three the semi automatic Climatic system is by far the best. Such a shame that Skoda have now dropped it from the Fabia and the SE now gets plain manual aircon. Cheers Lee

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Custom f*ckin designed for your needs

Nice one Ron, look forward to seeing some pics. Hope you enjoy it.

Disappointed - no longer, picked up the Elegance last week, what a fabulous car, colour, engine. Still learning but now very happy.

Wow that's expensive! All 3 are Audi tt pedal covers! You need a mk1 tt clutch and brake pedal and a LHD accelerator pedal. You can get all 3 from an Audi main dealer for less than £20 for the lot

When stuff like that no longer gets a chortle from me I will probably have to end it. Hahaha.

I dont like the door handles on the inside.

Nice mod. Did you alter the originals, or put different ones in?

Would the 4motion rear setup be able to be used or would it have to be complete custom setup?

Hi I just found this image, and thought I'd share it with you. For people who wish to remove their door cards, look at this and it will help you locate what needs to be removed first. HTH! Thanks, Leon