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Well, my Fabia has gone to the great scrappy in the sky. I now have a cheap Clio to keep me mobile until I find a good Fabia. Many thanks to all of you who offered such good advice over the last few years, I hope I can find a Clio forum half as good..

Thanks, I see a very low mileage example for 300 plus 50 delivery. I have a friend who is an auto mechanic, what do you reckon would be a 'mate's rate' price for the work, is it much of a fuss reprogramming ecu etc ?

Tonight the auxiliary tensioner bearing failed and the belt disappeared into the cam belt causing all manner of confusion with valves and pistons I thik, belt is still on and intact but engine spins with no compression. Where do I find a replacement or are they like the rocking horse whotsit? It would be a pity to scrap the car, just got brakes and suspension all fettled. 1.4 16v petrol BBZ 2003/4

Have you not found Hat Boy Harvey on youtube? The white bulb holder clicks out, no need to take the cluster off. I have an estate which has very much easier access.

Firstly it is a Skoda, one must accept such things. Mine will have periods of deciding, randomly, if I freeze or bake. Vigorous turning the selector knob to and fro several times will sometimes coax it to behave, sometimes not. The alternative to this is to strip out stuff and replace, I'd rather not do that.

Could you not narrow down the area via the MOT history?

I had problems with a rear brake dragging, I fitted these from eBay which fixed the problem. Easy to fit. Caliper Return Springs https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333521299428

I forgot to disconnect but did a 100 mile round trip to judge how the car was performing, it was fine, same as usual but the strange thing was that the fuel consumption was better. I did another trip about the same yesterday and, once again, far better mileage. The only other change was to change a front wheel bearing, I can't see that that would cause a 7% drop in mpg. Perhaps I should just shrug and leave the light on. I'll try the disconnect later to see what happens.

I'm getting an EGR light, 1.4 16v BBZ ; looking at prices on ebay I see that to clean it might take £12 of cleaner plus time and a replacement about £30 and far less time. Replacements are priced from under £30 to £130, it's a solenoid, how can one cost for times another ? The car has done 177,000 miles I don't think it will do enough more to justify the 'buy cheap buy twice' dogma. It looks a straight forward swap out, but is there anything to catch me out?

Standard fitting Page 4 of Symphony handbook When the appliance is switched off and the ignition is switched off the flashing LED located in button > indicates anti-theft protection.

Visibly the same as those one third of the price, there could be a difference in the wire spec and therefore the spring rate but that isn't stated for either.

Thanks, Those are the ones I've ordered, that's reassuring.

The brakes are binding a bit, I'm assuming that the springs might help. Are they standard fitting or an mod ?

I have just had my rear brakes sorted, new discs and pads, looking at videos on the subject I notice that some have handbrake return springs. Mine appears to have none, should I fit them ?

Whatever the mechanism is, a big hammer and penetrating fluid sorts it. I suppose it would be sensible to give the seats a run back and forward occasionally to stop them seizing up.