Magoochie

Huh, what exactly does where I live have anything to do about the matter? Forums like this are for people to ask for and provide help to other like minded people. Not for jumped up self inflated characters like your turning out to be to berate or mock the querys of anyone with less knowledge on a matter. As I said before, why even bother commenting. Take a break pal. Very helpful info, thank you

Very helpful RicardoM, cheers. At no point was I demanding anyone tell me what the specific problem was, just if in anyone's opinion would a basic service and swap over of some cheap parts make much of a difference or not. I wasn't asking anyone to commit to telling me it would solve all my problems. As for asking for hip surgery for a headache, it was very much nothing like that. Why anyone would want to come on a forum to give some sort of snarky sarcastic reply like that baffles me. Just say nothing? Thank you for any genuine help anyone has offered so far.

Yeah, changing half the engine and multiple retest is what I don't want. A one time change of certain basic parts and 1 retest is fine. I might give changing the lamda a go then. Would it be worth changing other service parts like oil and filter and plugs etc at the same time or are they unlikely to make as much a difference as the lamda and a noticeable difference? A basic service and lamda and retest comes in at a price I'm happy to gamble with but if that doesn't do the trick then it's a no go.

Thanks RicardoM. Can you tell if its something that replacing the service parts would possibly help with - spark plugs, oil and filters etc, lamda sensor maybe or any other parts that are just a case of unbolt and replace? I don't mind having a go and spending a little money on it but it's if it parts that need proper expert knowledge or finely tuned, then im out of my depth with it. The majority of service stuff is fairly cheap and is something I could tackle.

Hi folks, potential new addition to the skoda pickup crew and looking for some advice on emissions. I have the chance to take a W-reg felicia pickup 1.6 petrol but its in need of some work. Last mot attempt around 2 years ago was a big fail. Various bits of welding to be done but they'r not an issue for me, the main problem is the emissions failure. Apparently it was laughed out the mot station they were so bad. The fella did say that it had sat for around a year tho before the test so that wouldn't have helped matters but still, the readings were pretty bad I'm told. I don't understand any of the info so was wondering if anyone here could have a look and be able to say about anything specific that could be done to lower the emmisions. Would a good service and run sort it or is it a no hoper? Iv been told about a thing on ebay that attaches to the lamda somehow and "tricks" the computer into thinking the emissions are good. Anyone ever heard of it and if its any use? Thanks in advance for any help (if any) or advice to scrap the thing 😕