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There should be an internal release by the drivers seat? if not try pulling the seats down crawl into the boot and take off the trim that covers the lock, you should be able to have a good look while your there you might notice that a small peice of white plastic, like a donut with a spear coming off it (sounds stupid but you will see it) if this has broken i would reccomend going to a scrappy and finding a mk1/mk2 golf (whichever one has a similar boot release) and take the same bit out, this one is metal and wont break again!

Ah now if you were only looking a few months earlier you could have had my old one, went cheap for £500 as well, less miles than that as well, not in quite as good a condition though

1 - the car is generally very reliable, the only major common problems are the alternators and the temp sensors (do a search see if my thread about both my alternators is still around) 2- the usual induction kit and bigger 'zorst are the only ones i can think of but im not a mechanic - the 1.6 engine would have been a better one to start with 3- 'Pinkskud' has got coilovers on his felly you would be best off pm'ing him about it, he knows most about it 4- No one here sells them but just search in google for 'skoda felicia performance' or something similar, 'jorily skoda' sells a few things on ebay, look for the shop 5 - pass, but i have a funny feeling its semi-synth, i only had mine for 5 months and never changed the oil

Injector cleaner is mainly ethanol (im led to beleive), not so sure about isopropanol, but you have to be carefull when adding your own ethanol into the fuel tank as any more than 5% could damage your fuel lines and injectors

The connections for my rear speakers were in the front footwells, tok me and my mate a good hour to find them!

Thats practically mint condition compared to the one i had to drive he other day to hep my mate break it, windows didnt work, central locking was knackered, brakes didnt work, head gasket failure, radiator dead, and hes already made £200 off it! there might be a few parts i could do with - the whole fuel system if its the right sort - anyway enough of the off topic, back to the skoda rebuid!

my dad lends me all his tools as well...he doesnt want to but he should get a locked box in the garage then! also read you had a 306, if you end up scrapping it and breaking it for spares im on a 306 owners site and could advertise it for you if you like looking forard to any more updates

great read mate, i love reading peoples diaries about how they have done something albeit not quite the right way by the way ive got a haynes manual for sale as i dont need it any more you can have it for a tenner posted, just drop me a pm if you want it

i ran mine through the passenger footwell, cant remember where i found the hole, when it gets dark put away the carpet in the footwells and get a bright torch, shine it into the footwells then have a look into the engine bay and see if you can see the light coming through

got an offer for the car today, £500, didnt really want to say no as i was getting fed up having the car and not knowing what was going on with it so as of next week i will officially be a non skoda owner :( im really sad to see it go

back from the MOT had to race it across town to get it back before the auction closed, but use the minimal amount of petrol at the same time, its so slow compared to my pug! anywho it passed with only one advisory - exhaust centre section starting to blow (funnily enough same problem with the pug when i took that in for its MOT) but its back up for sale with a reserve of £600 just gotta hope someone wants it

Right its MOT day today, my insurance is covering me just gotta drive it down there....anone want to have a guess what it might fail on?

i was hoping for £500 but that was with a 3/4 month mot, this is coming with a brand new mot, and a new alternator rather than the scrappy one that didnt work properly, its also had the ever elusive fuel filter change which catches most people out, also the slipping cluth.....well the clutch is high, not sure if its slipping or just needs adjusting becaue ive been told by one person its slipping, then my dad said it wasnt, then i drove a car with a slipping clutch and relised mine isnt slipping its just needs adjusting i think!, but its an easy job to do ive been told, and all the problems i had with it were the alternator blowing up the battery and the ecu, me being a cheap student and not geting round to replacing them for 3 months MOT on wednesday and it will pass, passed last time no problem and i did about 5000 miles in it, what could have gone wrong?

its been put into the auction for another month at my expense of twenty quid but they have said it would be fine for me to drive it away to get an mot and bring back to them so do you think its unreasonable to ask for £600 for a T reg car with 1 years MOT, 30,000 miles on it, no service history (apart from the last 4 mot's) or v5? in fairly good condition apart from a couple of scratches on the back, 1 previous owner

ah sh!t, a mate of mines neighbour was interested in buying it so thats why i need it back at my house for him to have a good look at it, but he seems like a bit of a timewaster or i would just leave it down there again, could i drive it to the mot place without any tax on it?

i would but i gotta take it out of a car auction cos its not selling there so im gonna try my luck on ebay again but i gotta get it home at some time between 9 and 5

At the moment my felly has got no tax no mot or insurance but i need to move it about 5 miles down the road, how can i legally do this? is the only option trailer or would it be possible to soft tow and not get pulled over?

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it does sound like a pretty funky idea....but!, the sub's would need their own boxes to go onto the backs of the speakers or the sound would be terrible, and you couldnt fit speakers and subwoofers onto the same surface or the vibrations from the sub would destroy any sound quality from the speakers unless it was a extreeme snug fit into the space. it would be a good idea but you would have to spend hours working on it to get it right and get any decent sound....go for it!

£30 for a spare! pah i pay £15 for all my tyres lol part worns from a garage down the road from me they last for a good 6 months, always a bit of a lucky dip if you get a decent brand though

£500 sounds about right but if you try selling one on ebay a week before christmas no wants to pay more than £290 for it :(

lol yeh i was seriously ****ed off when i got the pliers as i had spent a good 2 hours under the car outside my mates house and outside my house trying to do it before i thought F**K THIS went and got the pliers and did it so quickly!

thats good to hear mate, i was just about to come along and say that there is still a perfectly good 1.3 mpi for sale in south wales if it was looking too costly to get yours fixed!

an lpg conversion costs in the regions of a grand i doubt anyone would do it on a 1.3 anyway its just not really worth it....say you save 50p on every liter of fuel you would have to use 2000 liters of fuel to make any money back, say you do 40 mpg and i think there are about 3 liters in a gallon thats about 14 miles per liter you would have to cover ABOUT 28000 before you made your money back....someone please correct me where ive gone wrong

your road tax wont go up as the car was made before 2001, at least thats what ive been told or im in the same situation as you, my pug will be paying something like £300 a year and im hopefully going to uni one day in a couple of years