KenONeill

Not a Scooby about the wiper motor. The linkage you can probably fix yourself by stripping down, cleaning the pivots with fine carbide paper and rebuilding with a lithium or molybdenum grease.

redcurrant jelly!

Unknown, because at this sort of age condition is more important than mileage. OTOH one of my friends did buy a similar age to this Fabia in 2010, and still has it.

Install a positive pressure air system fed from medical air tanks, so that air only ever bleeds out of your car into the environment...

That's sort of typical of mine, and I don't cycle, jog or run, and whilst I drink much less coffee now, for a while I drank enough Monday to Friday to get caffeine withdrawal headaches on Sunday!

Big hint - Phil's post showing 3 phase was made after mine. I may have misremembered the current wiring colours, but it's around 30 years since I last worked with 3 phase wiring.

!!? Live, return and earth I can understand; 3 phase red, blue, yellow feeds and return I can understand.

Well, problem 1; your car has a "break". :-) More seriously, I'm wondering if there is an issue with the pedal box, probably either the whole thing being loose or maybe the brake pedal pivot being loose.

Likewise, but in my car the physical buttons stay still enough that I can adjust the demand temperature whilst driving.

@D.FYLAKTOS - I'm pretty sure I told you way up-thread that you need to let hot air out of the engine bay to improve cooling.

Charge light - a little red light that lights up red when the battery registers a net discharge, subject to the alternator control wires being connected. Look, if anyone on this site asks a straight question like that, they are trying to get an answer without the need to actually read your mind! Seeing a discharge on a voltmeter when the starter is cranking is expected behaviour.

Big hint; Octavia 2 didn't have standard tyre pressure monitors. Also, when this happens, does the charge light work like you'd expect? In particular, does it light up when you switch on but the engine isn't running (I don't need to know about anything else, just the behaviour of the charge light).

True this; I know other people who've had to replace batteries on stop/start cars by about 3 years old.

No, because there isn't a design air/fuel ratio on a diesel engine. The volume of fuel injected rather than the opening of the throttle venturi is what controls the engine speed. That doesn't alter the fact that black smoke is a symptom of the engine being overfuelled resulting in incomplete combustion and soot as per my reply to your original posting.

Well, if I wanted "fuel economy" I wouldn't buy a 1.6 ton SUV... I also wouldn't buy a £60 FleaBay resister box.

I checked literally minutes before typing that other message citing them because I wasn't sure...

Some rough maths says that 24_000 chargers in the UK is about 1/6 the charger density of the Netherlands (all numbers except areas taken from your cite).

@gilmo Yeah, replacing a subframe is way less work than doing an engine swap from a "conventional" TDi to a Pompe Duse unit. Not sure you need stretch bolts, but the most likely place to source them around Glasgow is Henry's. As an alternative, there's good old Pistons and Components who're as old as I am or older. As for exhausts, I've always lived near a good welder and/or rapid fit place so don't know off hand beyond that SMS in Dumbarton will be happy to help and don't supply c@rp.

Have set it off on mine a few times, usually by deliberately braking hard and running one side on and off a low(er) friction surface.

!!? Only ever fit 1 gasket unless you're using a double head gasket as a bodge to drop the compression ratio!

@gilmo OK, since we're talking 2 x Elegance with different engines (and gearboxes I presume), in different countries, you need to move a lot more than "just the engine" to swap engines in the cars. As up thread, the EMS, engine wiring loom, transaxle, driveshafts and front brakes are all different (calipers and disc size), but the front subframe is the same. Indeed, I'm surprised that one appears to have a sunroof and the other a solid roof. (BTW, all else being equal I'd rather have the solid roof because more headroom, conditional on both having Climatronic)

Seconded.

At least twice; once live from trackside cameras, and once recorded from the Stevenage Gangsta's forward facing on board!

It doesn't even rain every day in Manchester! ;-) Let alone so hard you get soaked doing a 5 minute job.

The front hub carriers, caliper carriers, calipers and discs are different, but will bolt up to the same wishbones and (physically, no promises on spring or damper rates) struts. Both cars have the same 5x100 PCD. I may know more, but could do with knowing trim levels rather than just engine tunes (eg 110 Elegance rather than just 110). I am relatively just down the road in Dumbarton if you want to arrange to meet. Have you opened up the PM system yet?