12345Jay

I fitted mine last month, straight swap over, very easy to fit, strange you had to grind anything.

Need a bigger bar or start going to the gym lol

Nice wee drop of graphite grease on the bolt head helps

I would defo get them done, im just about to do mine before getting it mapped.

Nice tidy looking car badge is in wrong position though, should be above the swage line.

Welcome to the forum but you have posted in the wrong sections, better in the octavia section.

Silver and metallic can look darker if the paint is loaded on too quickly the metallics bunch up, and as above the angle can affect the outcome, silver is a hard colour to match hence if you only painted a wing the rest of the side would look different.

Quite rare round my way, joys of scottish winter rotting them away to nothing lol

Strange as i find mine drives very well, something cant be right with it, does it have original wheels on it as when i got mine it had 17"s and it was horrendous to drive, back on standards now was the best thing i done to the car, i love mine but the fact i cant put a towbar on it is forcing me to think about selling :(

Bearings on my car have been the bain of my life, the previous owner was having them pressed in so both failed, they must be fitted with a gen 2 puller and good quality bearing units or they will fail in no time, sounds like its been forced in on a press as garages cant be bothered buying the proper tooling.

Sounding like the alternator is on the way out :(

Could be the clutch pully at the end, quite common on them, will be easy to tell when the belts off, new replacements are about 50-60 from a auto parts store.

Normal fabia vrs one fits fine.

Could be the dmf (flywheel) hard to tell without hearing the noise

Easy enough to paint if you cant find a set, i was just lucky at the time but would have taken any onld set lol