Lukeb

I was hopeful that something from an Ibiza or Polo, or older Fabia, would fit so I could pick something up from a breakers.

I'm not getting on with the seats in my Fabia Mk3 compared to those in my old Mk2 Monte Carlo - does anyone know if the seats from the Mk2 fit the Mk3, or have any idea what other seats will fit? Thanks.

Sold!

We are selling our much loved Fabia Monte Carlo as we are going to go down to one car. It's a 1.6tdi manual and has been our pride and joy since we bought it ex demo from Bickerton Skoda in Sheffield four and a half years ago. We will be really sad to see it go but our lives are changing and we're buying a house so need the money. - 1.6 diesel - Genuinely gets 60mpg - £20 Road fund licence - Sports suspension - 17" alloys - Cd/mp3 player - Full service history - we have really looked after this car - Brand new front tyres - 89,000 miles, mostly motorway miles Available to test drive with proof of insurance. I'm in Matlock but work near Nottingham. The roof rack isn't included

The depths of the forum have provided conflicting information about this. From what I can gather the Skoda UK advice is 4 years and 60,000m, but the belt is a Continental lifetime belt and other countries don't recommend these intervals. Should I do it? If so is it worth doing the water pump at the same time?

A little update - the very helpful Caffyns Skoda in Ashford, Kent, who I think originally sold the car, helped me out with a part number even though I'm in Derbyshire and couldn't buy from them. If anyone needs one of these the part number is 6R0820721H.

I'd always go for a car I know the history of, if he had a Swift I'd be telling you to go for that. Provided you know it's been well looked after it's your safest bet.

The air con pipe from the compressor to the condenser on my VRS needs replacing. Does anyone know if this is the same on the 1.4TSI as on other 5J models? If not, what do I need instead? OEM is about £300 while breakers are about £60 so I'm keen to avoid new if I can!

Amazing, sorted with jonro2009's method. Why so simple but also so hard?

As above, cthe engines in later cars should be fine.

I'm in Derbyshire. The specialist did say he had a helpline he could call.

I have tried going through the maxidot- it shows a screen like that in your last picture but no others, no "info, reset" etc.

Took my 63 plate VRS in for a major service at 19,000 miles last week to my usual place (a normal garage with a good history with Skodas). They have been excellent with everything but couldn't get the inspection note off- this is on maxidot. He phoned up his mate at a VW specialist who said he would sort it- he plugged it into a program which didn't do anything, then VCDS which also didn't do anything (though I can finally unlock all the doors without pressing the button twice). The Skoda dealer in Sheffield we got our other two Skodas from (but not this one) want £25 to turn it off. Even though we've spent £20,000 with them since 2012. I'm not really willing to pay that- is there anything else I can try? They got the service note off by the way, just not the inspection.

Ok, had a look tonight and fluid levels are fine, I topped up and it's still noisy. Wino, where abouts is the pump so I can have a look at it?

Any chance you got any photos during the process? Would be good to have a tech guide- for an extra £80 over new brake drums it'd be worth going for.