Johnfc2017

Hi, I have noticed this problem a few times that when I change up the gears, the car doesn't seem to notice and the rev counter races as if the car is still in the old gear selection. I have to take my foot off the accelerator a couple of times before the car "realises" there is a gear change and the rev counter returns to normal. Does anyone have any idea why this could be happening? It's a Skoda Fabia 1.2 HTP with a 5 speed manual gearbox.

That is an amazing site, but couldn't see this monster piece of plastic on there. I think it's part of the front panel that hinges when you maintain the engine, but there is no left side to clip it to. It looks like it fell clean through the noise filter plastic trim bit. The front bumper is split in much the same way as the rear bumper was when I bought it, but it's not something I considered looking at when I bought the car. I suspect the damage was done when the previous owner ran over the Skoda rep that sold the car to him 🤣

Carista reported 06342 - Manufacturer specific code. Whatever that means?

Okay, got the car back so I could run diagnostics and two faults: P0030 (the garage must have read the code too quickly) comes up on basic ODB2 and 06342 comes up on Engine on my Carista. I reset them both and the check engine light went away but the codes are still showing up.

Hi, My parent's Skoda Fabia is in the garage after a service and MOT, the car had the o2 sensor replaced because I had diagnosed that as a possible issue and they carried on driving it so it needed a new cat. After replacement, the car showed no errors and passed the emissions test with flying colours and then the engine light came back on and diagnostics came back with P0300. The garage is reputable, we take all our cars there but the garage owner called me completely stumped because they tested the wiring and the sensor and traced all the wires to the ECU, reset the ECU with their fancy and expensive scanner yet this car keeps returning the same fault. So does anyone have any idea what would be the problem? The garage think they should take it to Skoda to see if the ECU needs a software update or something. It's a 2010 Skoda Fabia Mk2 trim level 3, one of those TSI 1.2L engines.

Hi, I'm having a strange day. There was this noise that sounded like my roof bars had come loose, then I had a report from a cyclist that a piece of metal was hanging down under my car and when he passed me he said it was my exhaust. I pulled over and looked and couldn't see an errant exhaust pipe. I drove to my customer with this terrible noise from under the car and then noticed this plastic trim piece attached one side to the condenser had come away at the other end, but no obvious place for it to secure. I've shoved it up with a bungie cord until I can find out what to do next. So, what is this part's proper name and how does it secure to the condenser or to something else in the car? There is a hole in the plastic but no obvious place it attaches to. I'm suspecting something wasn't replaced after it's last service and it has vibrated loose. Best, John

Hi, Previously, I had an issue with the door loom where the car was going crazy and trying to start itself, so I bought a loom repair kit and soldered new wires onto the loom. Today, after a spate of heavy rain the car is back to it's old tricks only this time after pulling the driver's door connector out, the car carries on misbehaving. I noticed on the loom side that a couple of the terminals are corroded, so water has got in there. How easy is it to get to from the car side?