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  1. Hi All Do you know wher I can get the gears for the odometer. Speedometer works fine but the kms are not moving. I need to buy he gears as one of them was loos. I believe back in time these were a kit. Can anyone help me out?
  2. my mechanic removes the speedo cluster very easily he pulls out the piece of plastic in the bottom just slides out, then removes the side there is a screw in the sides , then there are some screws on the top or side the cluster comes off quite easily be careful of the speedo cable
  3. HI Guys first of all congratulations for the Favorit the cluster swiitched is on on dim light. I own a Forman here in Malta and never had any problems with cornering on the original suspension. the car rolls a bit but it obeys. I would not change the feel of the car for anything. The engine still feels powerful. I have just bought a 2010 Skoda yeti. it is more comfortable however i miss the feel of the Forman. i drove a Saxo but the feel of the car is a bit nervous and it does not quite respond to the cornering as the forman. I recebtly have had a small accident and I need a wing Mirror left hand side as it was cut clean. it The frame is the round type similar to that of the felicia as it it of the last cars that came out. any links where i can buy one? Thanks
  4. I need a fuse box for Skoda Forman 1994. can someone give me any leads of where to find a replacement? Got some dry joints
  5. I need a fuse for my skoda forman of 1994. I live in malta however I have failed to locate one in decent shape. can someone help me out ?
  6. HI I was looking for instrument panel bulbs - Skoda Forman 1994 (Black Interior) these are the ones that come in the holder, which light up the gauges and speedometer can anyone tell me what is the exact name or where to buy as unfortunately I did not find in Malta? Thanks and regards
  7. then kindly explain this battery : same starter same mechanical stuff same after timing chain change - which required timing setting car working fine
  8. This is your original post. We still don't know what you ment by the 'safe' starter. But nevertheless, based on your initial description, every advice given by those trying to help you pointed to cables, battery or starter issues, in this order of probability. Yet you still insist it was because of a loose timing chain. Here is an extra bit of information. Four months ago I changed the timing chain on a Felicia that had the factory chain at 187,000 km (!). Yeah, it was loose, you could make two chains from it, the engine ran horribly, but the starter cranked the engine normally. In case you can explain in detail how everybody else was wrong, please share your logic. Something like this: "Because the timing chain was loose and the distributor too advanced which created a timing issue so the starter couldn't spin at normal speed sometimes." Just fill in the blanks. In Malta things wear 3 times as fast as it is accelerating and breaking after few seconds. this was the same very loose. it was not the chain alone. if the distributer had been turned a bit to slow the car down would have resulted in the problem easing. Meters always gave good voltage meters from both ends of the wire we had even taken a different starter with wires from a dismantled car which gave no issues when it was running (about a week earlier) and on mine they cropped up, which is why they were all ruled out starter wires etc. In the end I got tired of trying to solve the issue that I decided to leave alone and when the car wouldn't start any longer i would take it to be repaired. tried my starter on another car as well no problems there. it was clear it was another issue not a wires starter or battery one. Battery was new at that time and had even checked it out. first thing i had changed as the battery i had was quite old (in Malta a battery would rarely last more than 4 years due to short running) it was 3.5 years old. After changing the battery the problem remained. first hint that this was a timing issue came when a guy who had owned a small Maruti (800) I believe came to me when he heard the car starting and he knew what the car was doing and he told me that his started doing the same and that it was a timing issue. I went to different mechanics who work with Skoda and had this one argued over, saying that the car would start missing which at that time was not or backfiring which it was not doing either. After the timing chain symptoms began the timing checked and the car now feels spot on timing wise these problems stopped. i do not believe it was the timing chain alone which gave the symptoms but a combination of the distributor being slightly fast and the chain which was getting long slowed the car down creating a mismatch in the timing of the car. I could feel the pull was a slightly less than usual and attributed that to the car was getting older.
  9. I did not go to my mechanic for the starter problem. I went because the time chain was rattling badly and the car missing randomly, time chain related issues. also it had nearly 60k KMSon it. here in Malta 60K KMS is a workout since there are no highways. it is like doing them in town driving start stop. We change the oil every 5k miles not 15k due to the fact that the car is always accelerating through the gears. the starter had been out several times and battery readings were good through the wires etc. It was a timing issue since the chain was badly worn in instances, the distributor was too advanced for the car and that would have given the problem out which was getting worse by time. To date the problem has never appeared again.
  10. dear all thanks for the info. A month ago I have had the timing chain changed and the problem seem to have solved itself. It has not done this fault since. it used to do it in about 2 of 3 starts, but now for some reason the problem seems to have been solved. I am writing this for someone who might have same problem.
  11. did you try spraying some sort of conductive anti moisture on the plugs? mine had the same problem and traced it to spark plug leads
  12. The wires positive an negative have all been checked by meters and no one has actually found there is something wrong. The issue is that the car begins turning slow, then at a certain point it turns at normal pace as though it resets itself.
  13. Over this weekend I met a person who used to have a Maruti of 1989. When he heard what the car was doing he told me that the car he had was doing exactly the same thing and that it was a timing related issue and he seemed to know exactly what the car was doing with regards to starting problem. I am taking the car to someone who works with Skoda agent here in Malta to check the distributor.
  14. I also bet on those. even cleaned the terminals with a wire brush as a precaution. the cables deliver the voltage fine. This is the first thing I have checked. The thing is I have checked its ignition system from head to toe and nothing is wrong with it. very mind blistering situation. Here in Malta it was hinted to me that the next thing to check is the timing as it looks like that is the issue. The car usually starts fine, or the starter starts turning slow then increases its pace. An electrician told me that if there was something wrong with the power deliver the starter would either die out or it will remain with the same pace. this confirmed that the wires were ok as checked beforehand. they have even tested the flow of current with the starter on a bench and in the car, using different cables, and it was the same.
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