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It is the original battery, but I've tested it now and it looks alright - 12.4 after standing 14.4 when running. So not perfect but shouldn't be the cause of any issues I've only had the parking sensor fault once since I posted and haven't had the ridiculously high revving on start. I've plugged it in and there are no fault codes. The only thing that stood out to me (but don't really know what to look for) was the coolant temperature which was around 63C after running the engine for a good while.

Thanks xman. They did change the plugs in the service. I'll give that a try.

Hi! Hoping someone might have some ideas about some intermittent problems i'm having on my '59 1.2 Fabia. About 6 weeks ago I was moving my car to let Mrs off the drive and when reversing back the engine stalled. I started it up again and started moving and it stalled again and the low oil pressure warning pinged (not done this before or since). It wasn't in a great position, so I started it again moved it an extra meter and it stalled again. It was due a service anyway, so it went and had a full service. I told the garage, but they couldn't see anything wrong and there were no fault codes. Everything seemed fine after the service for a few days, then occasionally at idle it would rev up and down a bit and when putting the clutch in while moving the revs would drop massively - if I was stopping they'd dip <500 and the car would shudder like it was about to stall, but never did. This happened maybe every other day for just 1 trip (out of 6 in a day, quite short). One of the things I'd read was maybe bad fuel, so I got some better stuff after about 1 month and that seemed to help - it was only nearly stalling on 1 trip a week or less. Yesterday morning it was a bit stally which I thought could be low fuel related (petrol light on) and it was stally on my way home too. When I put it in reverse to park, the sensor did a long beep and the display went back to the radio. Back to neutral and into reverse again and same thing. I reversed ok but the sensors weren't working. I turned the engine off and back on and it instantly revved up to > 3000rpm for about 2/3 seconds then back down to normal (8-100rpm). Tired reverse, same fault beep. I turned it off and back on same thing happened. This morning it's driven fine and the reversing sensors are working as normal again. Anyone had anything similar? I've googled the 3 things separately (revs up and down/reverse sensor beep/revving up on start) and found posts about all 3 saying could be battery related. Does that sound sensible? TIA

Just had a quote from one garage £250 for both side done. Seems a bit steep to me...

Yeah, that's what happened. I would've liked both done but the Skoda dealer was just too expensive and I assumed that any issues would be spotted at MOT/service. Oh well time to start ringing garages! Thanks for your input.

Thanks for the reply. No it's petrol. Yes does include potholes and some speed bumps (luckily not too many round here). They only did the one side before.

Hi everyone. I'm looking for some advice/knowledge/opinions about Fabia coil springs. I had my front nearside coil snap a couple of years ago when my car was 3½ (outside warranty) and had only done 17500 miles and the front offside has just gone and I'm only at ~23k miles and just over 5 years. Most of those miles have been done on my own carefully around town with occasional motorway trips. Does that sound like a normal timescale? Is this something that commonly goes wrong on Fabia's? The Skoda dealership paid 75% the first time round. Should I be demandimg they do the same this time? Thoughts welcome

Got it booked in to the dealer £96 just for the diagnostics. ouch. so much for not being expensive!

Thanks for the replies. Hopefully not an expensive job then. How often should the air con be regassed?

Hi all. Long time stalker, first time poster. My 2009 fabia 2 has been making some weird noises with the climatronic air con on. It's kind of a woosh-y noise like it had athsma, but it was still cooling the car well and wasn't doing it all the time, mostly at low speeds when the car was cold. Then on Saturday I started my car and all the symbols on the air con screen flashed on and off for about 30 seconds. I came back to it later - no flashing symbols and no wooshing noise. Since then the symbols keep flashing so i've not been using the air con or heater. Does anybody have any ideas? TIA