Jedispooner

Are you cleaning the car too regularly (more than 4 times a year)? It’s those nasty wonder wheels or corrosive sprays from Halfords that ruin the wheels in my experience. The solution, I never wash my car anymore, leased mine, washed once a year, no damage or paint swirls, job done!

I’ve got a Karoq 2.0L SE-L 4x4 manual, the speed adjust and speed limiter are switched on by the left control arm rocker and then select mode by using the right steering wheel to select wether cruise or limiter, however cruise is always by default then have to manually switch to limiter, if I change to limiter it stays selected until ignition off, then when turned back on goes back to cruise. Any way to set speed limiter as the default when switching it on for the left control arm rocker? It’s a bit annoying to have to select limiter every time when ignition is first on.

Estate or hatch?

Keep it, don’t wash it and drive it like you stole it. After all, over thinking cars is a mugs game and after 5 years with 80k on the clock they all fetch about £3-4K in reasonable condition.

In my opinion, save yourself the hassle and buy a Fabia after November 2016, that way you are sure Smartlink will work perfectly. i

Do you have to use the button or simply say “Ok Google” ? I wondered about Android because on Apple IOS you can just say “Hey Siri”, and ask what ever you like. I never use the voice button on the steering wheel.

Well it would be pretty easy to create a polycarbonate mould for 1/10 Tamiya chassis kit. Who wouldn't want a Fabia MKIII Estate Monte Carlo rc car?! Have to get the paints from dealer tho, haha.

Then we could 3D print our cars as a model of the Fabia beauty.

Scan his car? Like 3D laser scan and create a 3D model of it?

Same here, I think of it as a “YOU MIGHT GET A STONE CHIP” warning, so I backnoff much more than I ever used to.

My reverse gear takes 2 to 3 attempts to get it selected and its been getting worse over the past year, still have warranty until March 2019 so might get it checked. Trouble is, I don’t want it messing with, it might just be a bit niggly and taking it all apart to make it worse sounds like hell. Dipping the clutch in again from neutral seems to help it go into reverse, some days it’s goes in first time, odd. It’s only a Skoda, I’ll just buy another one if this one breaks

1.2 TSI 90 Estate. Record long term is 51mpg after inflating tyres to 2.5 bar, usual 49-50mpg and I don’t drive conservatively. Im sure that flooring it with limiter on is worse mpg than just teasing on the edge with the accelerator, the real-time mpg suggests that’s true but it depends on the gradient of road.

Sorry to hear about the possible write off. My parents bought a 67 plate SE-L Estate 1.0 TSI 95 a couple of months ago, they love it. They went from an Audi A3 1.6 diesel fastback and they much much prefer the new Skoda by far, so powerful for a 1.0L! I have a 1.2 90 Monte Carlo Estate, if I bought it again today, I’d go for the 1.0 TSI 110 for sure.

That doesn’t look right at all, I’d take it to the dealer. Mines completely tight fitting all the way along, can’t even get a fingernail in between it. Get it checked out.

My car is 16 plate, 32K miles, major £279 and minor £149 at Northampton Progress and Lancaster Milton Keynes, seems the going rate in the Midlands.

Yeah I’ll call them back tomorrow and ask specifically what it is! Probably an air con software upgrade! HA Honestly if my dealer calls me again about my air con needs servicing I’m throwing a GDPR request to reticence all my details.,

Anyone had their dealer ring up and say "There is a software update for your Fabia"...? I asked what the update is for but the dealer said they don't know just there's an update and can be done. I checked the VIN number on the infotainment update and nothing needs doing.. could be an ECU update? Worth getting it done? Let me know if anyone else has had this on their 2016 Fabia 1.2 90 cars?

Get the estate version and the 17" wheels, its a much stronger overall looking car. In fact the estate removes that weird little angle up on the rear door panel below the triangle window, I have no idea why they put that there on the hatch.

I use Halford’s ready mixed blue screen wash and half a bottle of Rainex additive. It’s a perfect combination and it smells a bit like tequila slammers, which is even better.

We have a Monte Carlo 1.2 estate, the glass pano makes no difference to the in car temperature, plus you remove the car aerial sticking up which makes the car all over look sleeker in my opinion. The seats are very comfortable, I don’t miss the adjustable headrest, I don’t even notice that. I’m 5’ 11” and it’s just right sitting position even on long journeys the seats are very comfy. The cherry centre console looks great and makes a good addition to the red seats and our car is Corrida red so it suits the red interior. Electric rear windows would be a nice to have but nobody ever puts the windows down in the rear of our car so I don’t notice. In fact one touch drivers side electric window is all I miss on the Fabia.

I run our 2016 Fabia Estate 17” on 2.5 bar all round, getting average 50mpg. I never understood the TPMS, I press SET every time I top up the tyres, never had a warning. My tyres seem to all deflate a little bit at the same amount, so I guess TPMS won’t pick that up?

What’s the RRP?

My headlights mist up after jet washing for a couple of days afterwards, although I've only actually jet washed my Monte estate twice in over a year! My days of excessive car cleaning are over

Yeah I’ve never seen it on any of my cars in the past either.

Yeah I get water and moisture in mine all the time in the winter. It’s just physics, cold outside, warm inside, water condenses on the wamer side of the lens.