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it does @devonutopia: will do

yes I know my car uses a 10 pin power steering pump and it's electric. I'll look into what you're recommending, thank you very much.

Hello guys! well let me get right into it... in the last few weeks, sometimes while I'm driving and sometimes as soon as I turn on the car, the power steering light comes on in the dashboard and the steering gets really heavy. it happens like every 4-5 days and then it just goes away on its own and the steering gets light as ever. sometimes it goes away if I turn off the car and back on, and sometimes it doesn't and I have to wait for it to go on its own which it eventually does. My mechanic says the power steering pump has been damaged and that there's no way to fix it, and it needs to be replaced, but the only place I have available that sells new OEM skoda parts has it for way too much money (almost a third of what the car itself costs) is buying used a good option? is there any way to fix mine, despite of what my mechanic says? thanks in advanced.

so I looked into those viper alarms that you recommended and I decided on this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/151338725933?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT but after some googling I found that I needed a bypass module thingy for the anti-theft lock to work. is this what i need? http://www.ebay.com/itm/DEI-XPRESSKIT-DLPK-MULTI-CANBUS-INTERFACE-REMOTE-START-CAR-ALARM-BYPASS-MODULE-/181067303471?hash=item2a2873ca2f thanks in advanced.

hey! sorry to resurrect an old topic. will these do for me? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Skoda-Fabia-Front-Door-Speakers-Pioneer-car-speakers-adapter-rings-pods-240W-/160877644763?hash=item25750e0bdb I'm aware that they do say skoda fabia in the title but I'm an idiot and I need external confirmation.

UPDATE: A mechanic in another city about 2 hours away was able to fix this by replacing the rubber clutch piston seals. was done for about €250 which I thought was a steal including parts and labor. I had it done in august but I wanted to leave it be for a few weeks before declaring victory. Very satisfied! now back to enjoying my baby.

Thanks so much for your answer.

Hey guys! I did a search for this and couldn't find anything so hopefully I'm not asking an old question. What's a good aftermarket alarm to get? one that works with that anti-theft mechanism the car has (that red blinking light) when I bought the car it had an alarm, but whoever installed it did it very badly (or so my mechanic says) because it damaged something in the ECU or the central comfort unit (can't remember which, had to have it replaced.. this was a year and a half ago). And anyway, this alarm didn't activate the car's anti-theft thingy when it came on. I want to put an alarm again because my neighbor's car radio was stolen and we park side by side and I want to avoid any thievery coming my way. but I want a good enough one and one that also works with the car's own mechanism. thanks in advanced! (if you could provide ebay links I would appreciate it greatly) (skoda fabia 2002 classic trim)

now that I see all these pictures of fabias with right hand drive, why do fabias with left hand drive (like mine) have the passenger side rearview mirror smaller, but the right hand drive ones have both mirrors the same size? left hand drive cars:

Thank you for your reply. So from my understanding, what you're saying is that I should just leave it be? that's what my regular mechanic said. I was just worried if it would result in more damage over time. Thanks again for the reply. I just thought I'd ask, because I know virtually nothing about engines or transmissions and I don't think I can trust the mechanics when they all say something different, so someone impartial like you guys here would be more trustworthy.

Hi! My car doesn't have any cool mods or anything like that, but since the sedan version of the mk1 fabia is not very common I thought I'd share some pics of mine. I adore it tbh. The only thing I've done is replace the electric front windows with manual ones, because since I've owned the car, the electric windows have broken down on me three times, and repairing them wasn't cheap.

The car was nearing 90,000KM when it was changed. Since I bought it a year ago I don't know if the fluid had been replaced with the previous owners so it could be related to this. I'm going to try this, thanks for the advice.

Hello everybody, this is my first post. (Before making the post I was sure to use the search feature to try to find a solution for my problem but didn't find any, so my apologies if this problem has been talked about before.) So I have a 2002 fabia sedan automatic 1.4 16V, have owned it for a year now and I am satisfied with it. I've experienced the normal faults (according to the internet) that this model comes with, for example the electric front window mechanism breaking down (my solution was to buy the original parts on ebay to make the front windows manual instead of electric) and the thing about how the rear door leaks (haven't fixed this yet but I've seen how it's done), plus other normal things for a car this age. Ever since I bought the car, it did something when I first start it in the morning (or when the car is cold), that it takes a couple of seconds for the transmission to "engage", and when it does you sort of feel a small bump in the engine, but when I purchased the car I investigated on the internet and found out that this is normal and also happens to other cars in the VW group with automatic transmission and I shouldn't worry about it. After the engine is warm, this doesn't happen anymore though, so it's only early in the morning when I go to work, and if I haven't left my office all day (which I usually do) by the time I go home it happens again. If I use the car during work hours, which I sometimes do, it doesn't happen. I guess the car doesn't have time to get "cold". The thing is that, over time, the delay time has grown from around 2 seconds to +/-15 seconds and I've grown worried. I have taken it to a few different mechanics and they all have told me something different about it so I don't know who to trust. The last shop I took it to was the official skoda one in my city (I don't usually take it there for servicing cause they are quite expensive) and what they did was replace the transmission fluid and filter, which only marginally cut down the delay. Other mechanics have told me things ranging from "it's normal, don't worry about it" to "you have to replace the transmission" and I don't know who to believe. Should I just leave it alone or what should my course of action be? will this end up ruining my transmission? Some googling led me to a post in a VW forum describing a similar problem to mine on a 2004 Jetta, and a member of the forum said that it could be related to the rubber clutch piston seals, that when they get cold they hardened and some transmission fluid leaks, and that when the engine warms up it gets corrected, and that the "condition worsens as the car gets older" but it didn't offer any solutions and didn't even specify if this was a problem that needed to be looked into or not. Thank you for reading this, I know it's long, but I wanted to explain myself with detail to try to get a better response. Also I have minimal knowledge of the inner workings of engines and transmissions so I hope that I made myself clear! I should mention that If when cold I let the car idle for a few minutes before going, it doesn't happen or the delay time is reduced greatly. Also, other than this fault, the transmission works flawlessly as verified by several mechanics. I should also mention that this only happens when I set the shift to "drive", but when I put it in "reverse" it works just fine, no delays. TL;DR Skoda Fabia 2002 sedan 16v 1.4 classic automatic 4 speed When cold, the transmission has delays (+/- 15 seconds) to engage the first gear. When the car has been going on for a few minutes this gets corrected and doesn't happen again until the car gets cold again. Different mechanics have different opinion as to what causes this and what should be the course of action. thank you very much in advanced for your responses!