Truls84

Get a used wheel of a scraped Fabia or Polo, i got a old studless winter tyre from the wreckers and just cleaned it up in the shower. Was 30 quid, wheel and tyre and all.

i wonder if the golf mkiv shifter would work in a fabia. If so one could get a shifter from the wreckers and then do a DAP or dieselgeek bushing kit on it to make it real nice.

its alot more work to rebuild! to get to the shifter internals you have to drop it and remove it from the car. I had mine out to change the linkages when they went. Not something that can be done without dropping at all.

i would too, think it would have fit on a estate?

you could try to engage the gears with the mechanism that on top of the gearbox itself. Leave the car in neutral so you can push it and feel if its in gear. if third engages then it is most likely the cable that's torn underneath or the rubber bushings on the cable connectors that just gone too soft.

Could just be the wires to the gear selector, i had to change one of mine, it was a cumbersome afternoon but easily done if you can get the car somewhat of the ground. It can also be worn bushings in the gear lever mechanism or by the gearbox, also easy to fix yourself.

Just posting incase someone else get the same problem. Changed to some new normal control arm bushings and the car is back to normal. Lesson for today, if you have a 3-cylinder do not change to cupra or poly bushes on the control arm or the engine mount unless you want a rough ride when the engine is under 2000rpm.

was your car a 3 cylinder?

I'm changing back to normal bushes and having an aligment done after that. If it wasn't for the NVH i would have kept them, i like some of the characteristics of them better. I just didn't imagine that the control arm bushes would transfer engine noise, i only seen warnings about harder engine mounts doing so.

So i changed fromt ARB bushings and control arm's with cupra bushings, now my 3-pot has horrid NVH when i pul from idle to ~1300rmp. It shakes the entire car, over 1300rpm it goes smooth again and rides like a charm. It also shakes like that if i engine brake under 1300rpm. What could be the culprit? I have not done an alignment yet either. Also the ARB bushings where ordered as 20mm and my ARB is 20mm, but the old bushings had a bigger internal diameter when i took em of, tho they did have 190.000km on them so maybe just worn down some?

What would be the difference between the 6R0407151D for the sport suspension and the ordinary 6R0407151 part? To me it looks like it has a stronger structure but the same geometry.

i have, make sure you have the correct connector style on that lugagge handle/camera combo first, if not you may make an adapter. Other than that you would need a stiff plastic rod or a plastic covered metal rod thats thin, its needed to pul the wires trough the channels in the luggage door, you wil maybe need lube to get the wires trough the rubber boot. other than that its basically just undoing the panels along a side of the car, i recommend the lower panels, and run the cable to the headunit. Skoda Workshop Manuals > Fabia Mk2 > Body > Body Work > Trim, noise insulation > Pillar and side trim panels > Removing and installing bottom trim panel of pillar A (workshop-manuals.com) Follow the guidelines how to remove trim.

use pure copper wire with silicon insulation for that stuff, should last longer than the aluminium wires with hard rubber shielding in that application.

i had that error from time to time, it went away after i removed the maf and ecu and checked the continuity between the wires. Wires where not bad but some corrosion on some pins, i cleaned it and gave it some dielectric grease. Been perfect since.

That number cant be correct, that's world record breaking numbers. I can get my greenline to do 67MPG https://www.fuelly.com/car/skoda/fabia/2008