DieselMonte

Done some boring maintenence this evening, namely cleaning out the intercooler piping and cleaning the map sensor. Turbo side was pretty dry, considering I don't think its ever had the piping taken off before. Intake side of the intercooler was a little bit oily but not near as bad as I feared. Map sensor, Cleaned it in situ with a lot of electrical spray cleaner. Torx bits holding the map sensor on were very crusty so I left them alone. All cleaned up fine, seems to run nicer after the map sensors been cleaned out, probably a placebo but I'll not complain Have a fair few parts on order for this, some I'll have in a few days, others have been pushed back to next week. Have to wonder how much new intercooler pipes are, maybe I could get some silicone joiners and cut them to length?

Doesn't look it but I washed it today, took about an inch of shed dust off it. Headlamp fell off but lets ignore that. It'll be going on the spyders sooner rather than later, and I think I've snagged some more parts for it aswell. Intended on getting a photo of it and the mk2 outside but I had 2 more cars to clean and it was dark by the time I got done.

When I got my rarb last year I shipped it to ireland from the Uk instead of using an address up north. Ended up paying another 50 euro in Customs charges on it!

Plenty of disadvantages too! Not least of which is Dodgy diesel and ridiculous amounts of customs checkpoints.

I have them in the wishbones of the monte hence why I'm happy to go again with them. The one ballache I had getting them was, they no longer ship to Ireland. So I had to use a relatives address 10 minutes the other side of the border to have them delivered to. Atleast they do free shipping within the UK.

It is yeah, Weathers clearing up soon so I may as well throw the Spyders back on the Mk1. The steelies are bald and don't hold air, massive pain in the arse pumping them up everytime I want to drive the car. Have a lot of parts coming for the mk2, some of those bushes. Had a brainwave to order a "full kit" for a mk1 fabia and split it between the mk1 and mk2. Full PSB kit, mk1 gets the wishbone bushes and the mk2 will get the Arb Bushes and Rear beam Bushes. Worked out as cheap to get the full PSB kit as powerflex wanted the same money for just the rear beam bush.

Anyone but hermes really

Bit of an empty post. -Have been non stop hunting for disc axles and have come up with nothing still. -Downpipe is still in bits but should be getting fixed very soon. Other than that: Was due for service so I asked them to tighten the clip on the power steering pump while it was in getting serviced. So hopefully I won't need to worry about it falling off again. I ended up removing the brace and reinstalling all the trim around the boot, as I didnt want to cut and hack the trim to make it fit around the brace. Boots creaky once again and I can feel the difference in the car, but aside from the creaky arse the car is a lot quieter. The handbrake cables wouldn't stretch any further so I did a hack job and used a load of washers to try get more tension on the cable. It works for now. I gave the MAF a good clean with electrical contact cleaner yesterday, as I felt the car wasn't running quite as well as it could be, and given I get a P0101 code on occasion I figured cleaning the MAF would do no harm. As I was finishing up, by pure luck I found the source of a noise I had been hearing on and off for quite a while. https://youtube.com/shorts/-AFncBlzCRI?feature=share The N75 valve is the source of that noise. Is not throwing any codes but given the noise its making I've ordered a replacement. Seems this helps control boost, so I think theres a good chance putting in a new one will make the car run better again. Cleaning the MAF does seem to have made the car pull a bit nicer. I don't have pictures for this last part but I removed the grille and cleaned up the cuts I made in it to give the airbox a better feed of cold air. I'll try post up pics of the grille again.

I cleaned the anti shudder valve on mine a while ago, off the top of my head it was around 110k miles. Mine wasn't bad at all aside from the mass of gunk in the first photo. Pretty sure its never been cleaned before either. I used pink stuff paste to clean it, worked a treat. I like to think I felt a difference, lets be honest it was most likely a placebo effect. No harm in cleaning it out though. If OP does do this, I can suggest another thing he could do while he has it apart. That is use a dremel to put a notch onto the piece that feeds egr gasses into the intake stream, he'll have to take it off to get to the ASV anyway. This allows you to mount the metal piece facing up to the intake, letting egr gasses flow straight into the intake manifold as opposed to going away from the intake and then being forced up. Not explaining it as well as I hoped, but its easy to do and free. Only real gain is that it should keep the intake a little cleaner (supposedly) May as well mention you can buy restrictor plates to put onto the egr pipe that won't cause the car to throw codes. Less egr gasses will help keep the intake cleaner again. They can be got for a few euro online.

What difference has the addition of all that sound deadening made? Would you say its worth it?

Not all fabias use the three bolt top mounts. Top mounts on facelifted fabias (including vRS) Is not the three bolt design that the mk1 has, its one bolt with a cap on the top like so. No adjustment there. Pretty sure Powerflex and the likes offer bushes that can be adjusted to change camber and I know superpro do ones to change caster.

Its the noise thats making me think its faulty more than anything. Had an inkling cleaning it was pointless, thanks.

Good evening everyone, I've had this noise coming from my engine bay for a few months now, only showed itself every once in a while and I could never track it down until tonight. Part number on it (1k0906627b) suggests its an N75 valve and its responsible for controlling boost? Some vw based forums suggest its possible to clean these? Would it be worthwhile to try cleaning it first or is replacement the best way forward? Should add, never went into limp mode, never got a code related to it (I only ever get a P0101 code coming up once in a while, have since I got the car. Never felt any difference in the car and it would go away on restart.).

I got a full set of (arguably rarer) Mk1 fabia sport seats, in decent nick for 100 euro. Its hard to find decent vRS seats but would be even harder finding someone to buy them. I see a fair few rough sets of vRS seats up around the £80-100 mark but I don't see them sell. I'd say clean vRS' are hard found already, especially in the south.

Agree with you there on the 288s, I put 312mm fronts on my monte not long after it was mapped. New pads and discs when I got it but I'm assuming they were cheapy replacements, plenty of meat on them but they started making some pretty horrid noises and just weren't performing as great as they should be. Could have put good discs and "fast road" pads on the 288s all the same, but absolutely zero regrets on putting 312s on.

Was trying to say a fatter tyre would raise the car slightly, if you could get any higher profile tyre on your car.

If he is managing with standard suspension, he could just do a 20mm lift, slightly fatter tyres and probably a metal sump guard would be wise. Still gets a little more ground clearance and hopefully not compromise the handling of it too much.

14 inch wheels are as small as you can go, 256mm brakes.

Would definately make a noticeable impact on handling and fuel economy, for the cv axles I think you'd need to look under the car and see how they sit on the car currently. Are you sure your car isn't sitting low or something, my sdi sat very high and it took a lot of hard driving in fields pretty easily, very seldom was it bottoming out, pic related. Unless your shocks (and more importantly springs) are pretty new, it could be sitting a bit low compared to what it should be. Bad shocks will have you bottoming out a lot and springs can sag over time especially with a big diesel lump that our cars have.

Throwing my 2 cents in, A remapped PD100 is plenty powerful enough for 99% of driving. Slap a rarb on that to make it handle. If you want a vRS bumper, you need the facelift bumper clips (only if your car is a pre facelift) and you need to extend the foglight wiring on the drivers side (I had to). vRS seats are hard to keep clean and most of them are trashed by this point. I got a set of Fabia Sport seats in my car, same seat but dark. Then I swapped the drivers and passengers seat base, as the passengers side one was in better shape. I've had some experience with Caddys and Golfs with 1.9 and 2l PD engines. Golf was a 2l Pd140 and it was great, but you wouldn't want any less power in one of them, imo. That sort of power in a fabia is plenty enough, speaking from experience as my monte is mapped to 140hp. You mention your ibiza spinning up at wet junctions, as a 105hp common rail? I never had an issue with my monte, same engine mapped. It only ever became an issue when I put some winter tyres on, normal tyres you have to really try to get the wheels to spin. Something I don't think anyone else has mentioned is brakes. A mk1 PD100, if i'm not mistaken has 256mm FSIII brakes, can see them getting overwhelmed pretty easy after a remap. vRS' came with 288mm on the front (and discs on the back) for a reason, even my monte (and your ibiza) with the CR105 unit came with 288mm fronts.

My mk2 has a boot liner in it, probably because the previous owners had dogs in it. Its a thing I never knew I needed until I had one. Think a hatchbag would be OTT imo.

I just leaned mine back too.

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