Cydermonkey

Ooh this looks tasty mate! Do quite like the b7 shape, and that's a nice colour too!! What's the future plans with it?

Well well well..... hands up if you've got a slammed flared fabia people easier to show you what happened today with the help of @Updown789 and @Hyphons two absolute legends, one lowered Fabia III on Stance+ coilovers with rolled and flared arches, oh and @Hyphons mad little shoe box... DSC_2146 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_2159 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_2165 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_2144 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_2154 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr cheers all, waddya think?

Sooooo new wheels time! Turns out that it pays to check your PCD before you try and fit the wrong stud wheels... however an ace spot by @Updown789 while hanging our heads that the RS4 alloys wouldn't fit resulted in a set of ET Perfect banded steelies and with coilovers arriving Monday its starting to get there! DSC_2069 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr whats peoples thoughts?

whoa, this could (is) just my addiction to my local back roads but my average over the 12months and 14k miles ive done this year is 42mpg in my mk3 1.2 TSi, although that will drop further after payday this month...

hmmm still not a fan of the ecosport design, but that does sound pretty tasty. on a side having a play with their colours lightning blue would look good on a fabia...

IMHO there are still ways to get your thrills with hot hatches, admittedly the breed is dying a very painful death it seems at the moment, but what I don't understand is why our VW, Audi and to some extent Seat friends are still playing the game fairly effectively, I know the styling isn't quite as lairy as before but any hot hatch is going to be silly priced in the 21'st century In my eyes the Polo GTI, Audi S1 and Ibiza Cupra R still made a good buy, even more so when approved used! however after having a quick browse on autotrader in the sub 20K bracket there is a brace of those three mentioned.... why we didn't get a wide mouthed 1.8TSI fabia VRs is beyond me...

and I have space and roof bars if you need me to carry trackday wheels

nice that looks pretty good, is that fabia specific springs or polo/a1 springs you used? even a little lower makes it look more purposeful! Pacific blue is a nice colour too...

Well that's the free 12 month warranty out the way and my 65 plate fabia 1.2 TSI is still running just fine... time to change that methinks! So some of you (2 to be precise) know that a year ago my slamvan B5 Passat went into hiding after failing an mot and is now a mouldy mess waiting to be turned into a V5T BTCC Surf van... but that's a looonngggg way off so its time to start playing with my 'Daily Driver' Fabia III estate, now there's a few problems I have with this car which I intent to fix to go from dadwagon to epic B road rally car 1) its quite slow... yes a 90BHP city estate is never going to be a rocket ship so hopefully a stage 2 remap to around 135BHP should help sort that for the time being, at least it will give a little more poke! 2) its got way too much gravitational potential (I had to google that)... so either 60mm lowering springs will be ordered on payday or if I get the promised pay rise then maybe a set of coilovers... more on this later! this will help hunker the car down on the road and give allot more confidence in the corners by stopping the horrendous roll! 3) its too quiet... WAY too quiet! this is just the child in me coming out but for the moment it will be a simple back box delete and shotgun tip, unfortunately the budget wont quite allow a full custom stainless yet! 4) it doesn't look... mean. Ok i'm not going to but a mahoosive wing on the back (yet ) but I do have a set of big chunky mudflaps to put on, and I will be ordering some LED spotlights to spruce up the front end and blackening out all the chrome trim, potentially a leon Cupra or custom splitter too to help airflow under the front end and a rear diffuser will have to be looked at too, as I want to get on a couple of track days as estates are a pretty good track day package. all the tools in the back, set of race wheels on roof bars up top and longer wheelbase so slightly more predictable through the corners, or so I think... 5) the seats wouldn't hold anything through a sharper corner than the motorways, so a set of more buckety seats is required, I'd love some S1 Bucket seats but potentially polo GTi fronts or maybe even an acual bucket seat for the driver? So that's the plan for the moment, I was thinking of upgrading to an S1 but the cost would be too much for me, and the practicality of the little fabia is good, and its got bags of potential! so heres a few pretty pictures from my trip to wales the other week whatcha think folks? DSC_1994 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_2034 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr DSC_1988 by TheKoolBox, on Flickr

... or downgrades if you like your cars with a sensible gravitational potential I'll cut any sugar coating, I'm looking at seriously lowering my fabia estate, I know its a similar platform to the polo 6R/ audi A1 so is it as simple as buying a set of coilovers for one of those and bolting in or will the rear suspension play havoc with me, I know theres hardly any (probably none) lowered fabia 3 estates in the UK but if anyone with better knowledge than me can comment that would be great, and if anyone can recommend some good budget coilovers that go low that would be good too, ive got FK AK street's on my Passat and that actually wasn't too bad considering it was what i'd call 'slammed'. cheers gents!

looks good mate, I'm sure ive got a big towing eye somewhere at home...

Sorry for the lateness of this, however unfortunately due to work I'm going to have to cancel, gutted to miss this, heard it has been brilliant! *feels sad*

Cheers JED! I'm proud of the passat and will be of the fabs in due course, it's doing what it needs to at the moment!

Oh hai yea wonder who helped me lower it... lol

me too please! Fabia 3 estate... all be it standard lol