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Gave it a good blast up the motorway yesterday evening. A3M is just off the M27 near me and a good clear run with no cameras, M27 is awful now where I am, cameras everywhere and not so smart motorway. Couldn't get any speed up or enough distance on there last couple of attempts on the morning work run. Managed to get nearly 60miles in which seems a lot, mainly 60 ~ 80mph kept it in 5th. Used more of the rev range changing up etc. Revs have dropped back down to just under 1000rpm at present and the rougher running / hesitant performance seems much improved and dare i say it back to 'normal'... Have to see how long it lasts, just done the shopping run and its still appears to be OK. Couldn't get any E5 97 in Sainsburys though, all the pumps where dry. Just boring old E10. I've heard some cars are having issues with E10, engine management lights coming on but no real fault. Clear it then comes back on weeks later. Who knows! Anyway, cheers. you guys have saved me a trip to the dealers & £90 (for now....) It has made me get the Skoda recovery renewed though, on the fence about the extended warranty. Confidence in the longer term reliability beyond the lapsed warranty isn't really high. Why the dealers didn't say to try that first i don't know. See how it pans out from here.

Cheers, couldn't see anyone near me on that list. If it doesn't sort itself out after a longer motorway blimp later tonight might extend the warranty while its still an option and book it in next week....

She said £90. I asked if that was 1hr workshop time, got a bit of a vague yes....

Fair point i guess, if you think it will really help I'll put some good stuff in. I'm about 1/2 tank at the moment. They would charge me £90 to tell me what they think is going on. I would expect a thing like this really is just after sales advice not something to make money out of people. Of course it could also actually have a problem... I blipped up the motorway this morning on the work run, kept it in 4th revs around 2.5 / 3K ~60mph. Don't think its still long enough to clear it. I can get on there and head north so i think I'll try that when the roads are quieter, no point in rush hour.... If that fails then going to have to book it in i guess....

Oh blimey, its been a while! I don't even know where the OBD2 port is on the car! Do they still use OBD2 on these?

Left it to the main dealers for the servicing as still on the finance for the car. Its probably due a plug change on the next service which will be next Sept now, its just been done. Could try some super unleaded in there i guess, but would that just be a waste of money?

I've never attempted to try and read the ECU on this car. I do have a few OBD2 interface adapters about. Last one i brought was a cheapo bluetooth one for the old mk2 Fabia. Not sure if it would be compatible with this car? That came with Torque, i used it on a android tablet. I have used VCDS in the past, i had a VW 1.8T Bora before the first Fabia so used it with that.

Guess a later evening run after rush hour could work. I could try the motorway in the morning, i never use it as it gets so busy. If its OK i could start using it more if it helps stop this happening. Its a pretty quick journey for me using the back roads so I've stuck with that route for past 8 years. I sort of half not trust the car TBH, I've always had the underlying thought that's its going to play up! There's just something about the build quality on these new cars, but maybe I've got the wrong idea about that one. Its out of the warranty now as well, I'm thinking maybe of should of extended it but it was another £300 for year. But a single repair bill could be at least that and probably more...

Exactly that, I'll just enable the ignition in the morning before starting. I think they all come up then. I'll see if its on there!

I'm doing 18 miles a day, its country back roads. I can get on the motorway to do that run but slow moving heavy traffic puts me off that one. Could even end up being parked up. I wonder if i had done the 400 mile journey up & back to Lincolnshire it would of stopped it. I usually do that journey 3 times through the year. Maybe that's been enough in the past. Should be up there middle / end of next month. (if the cars working....) Just don't do that many longer journeys these days, i could take it up the motorway over the weekend i guess & have a day out somewhere.

I did look earlier but they don't stay on for long. Will try again in the morning.

This is petrol so i guess might well behave differently. It was hesitant a bit on the return journey when i first started off but got me home. Not sure how long it will do this for, if it is doing a regen and not some other problem. I think I'd better get breakdown cover sorted. I didn't renew it when the 3 year warranty was up 2 months ago.

I have a look later, dash lights up like a xmas tree but i only notice if something stays on which it doesn't to date. Don't think there's any covering up unless the dealer's up to tricks.. Which i very much doubt. Its the first odd thing I've had with it in 3 years and a few months from new.

Ok cheers, i did have a look. There's nothing about this occurring in the manual in the way that I've seen it happen with mine. That's why i thought it was broken! I'll drive it fairly normally but work through the gears at higher revs than normal then.

Cheers, I'll have a read. Could find the second PDF online , SSP590

Just coming up to 14000 miles.. Bit conflicting information there, manual says to keep the revs up between 3 / 5K, lift off accelerator for a few sec then reapply. But my warning lights not on which reference's that action anyway. So do you mean just coast in gear at 3/4K rpm as much as possible?

Drove to work mostly in 2nd & 3rd today, only way i could get the revs up to 3K and above. Also setting the display to oil temp takes your mind off the high fuel usage.... Waited until it got to 70 / 80 degrees anyway. Giving it the beans a bit as well. Noticed the auto start / stop is still active, i thought this got disabled when its doing a regen? I always disable it anyway but forgot when i first set off. Nothings changed yet anyway, i think I'll ring the dealers up and see what they say as well. Maybe it needs a proper blip up the motorway for 30mins or so? One journey i haven't made since May time this year was a 200 mile & back trip up to Lincolnshire, usually do that at least 3 times a year. Other than that it local driving. Wonder if it is the regen thing whether that was enough to clean things out. Just rung the dealers, they said if it was doing a regen that it wouldn't be doing it all the time? I'll leave it a few days and see if it clears. Going to be £90 just to get some kind of answer out of them if it goes in....

Cheers, I'll have a read up. Most of what I've seen so far is all about diesel DPF's. Not found much practical advice on petrol GPF's / PPF's. I'll drive more thinking about getting the exhaust hotter over saving fuel for a bit and see what happens. There's no mention though of the higher revs happening in the manual, just the filter light coming on which mine hasn't. I guess i don't really want to see it coming on either!

Cheers guys, i wouldn't of thought of that. I never had a car with a GPF on it before, i think i have a vague memory of it mentioned that it had one. Saying that i never had a brand new car before 2019 when i brought the Fabia. So sounds like an Italian tune up might be required. I must admit i don't explore the upper rev range very much, i do 18 miles a day during the week on the work run. There's a 50 MPH stretch, i guess about 5 miles, the rest is slow moving through villages. I'm always thinking keep the revs down, save fuel and keep the MPG up. I'll pretend its a 4 speed box and hang out in 2nd / 3rd a lot more to get the revs up then. I see they say to release the accelerator while in gear for a few seconds and repeat. Is that something to do with getting oxygen in there to increase the temperature to burn the crap off? Will have a flick through the manual and see what's mentioned in there about it. Hopefully its the cause of it then, got to be worth a shot. Will let you know what happens....! Cheers

I'll have to pop the bonnet and have a look. Its been stress free motoring for 3 years, but the problems started this morning.... I don't think its the battery though! Unless it can cause a sudden constant high idle with no warning lights on the dash.

Arrgh, cheers. Maybe i should i read up on such things. I wonder what's changed there that you have to do that these days?

Hi all Had a search but not found this problem I've started to have as of this morning. So the idle has suddenly increased going by the rev counter up to around 1400 rpm. I was hoping starting it on the way home from work that it would correct itself, but no. Idle definitely seems higher than normal, i thought it was the rev counter playing up at first. Its like the choke doesn't come off on an old school engine. Though I'm sure i heard it go through the usual start up cycle with higher revs then dropping. Will have to check again in the morning what its doing. I didn't noticed this morning, only when i stopped at a junction some 7 miles into the journey. One thing I've noticed is if I'm slowing down to stop or crawling in 1st in traffic the revs will show just above 1000. If i actually stop it suddenly jumps up to around 1400 but i don't hear the revs change (i think, need to check that with the stereo off...) Not sure if the MPG has taken a hit as well, normally getting up to around 50+mpg on the work run but came out less today on both trips there and back. Temps are about the same outside with that MPG. Just out of the warranty by a month as well. I didn't extend it thinking it would be OK for another year..... Any ideas?

What the bit at the bottom about charging. Something about not connecting the charger negative directly to the terminal?

Cheers for the reply, its the Fabia 1L TSI 110PS. Just been MOT'd / serviced, nothing found on their check list. I've got 1 year left on the PCP so either buying it in full this time next year or chopping it in at some point. I guess get the last service / MOT with them next year maybe. It seems OK at the moment but I've never really trusted the build quality on this version. More of a gut thing than real life experience though. Its really low millage for its age as done a years less driving due to covid, Its 13,200 after 3 years. Should be around 21K by now for my use. I've searched back through the forum to see what issues people have been experiencing with this model, broken door handles and infotainment units stopped working seems to be a thing so far. With previous S/H dealer brought cars where it came with a warranty i did extend them. With those it did prove to be worth it as had problems that got sorted. That would of been a 2002 1.8T VW Bora & after that a mk2 2013 Fabia with started to make expensive noises with the timing chain tensioner and the oil pan started leaking! I PX'd it in for this mk3.

Hi guys. I'm at the 3 year point with my 2019 mk3 Fabia from new so breakdown cover and warranty is up this Friday. Extending the breakdown cover is a no brainier but not sure if its worth extending the warranty? Mine comes in at £188 all component cover when i looked a few days back. Has there been any expensive issues on these cars that anyone's aware of that's brewing or happened? I realise £188 is most likely less than any repair bill i will get for any work that needs doing but is it really likely to break? Cheers