DieselMonte

Even still, they are a tight squeeze on a 16. Rarbs are generally the go to "brace" on fabias, thats where you'll see the biggest gains from. You probably do have 256mm brakes, look at the front calipers, if they have FSIII stamped on them they're 256mm. Second pic has 288mm brakes, albeit thats on a mk2 fabia. I'll get up a pic of 312mm brakes soon as my cars just after being fitted with some. With the amount of mk1 vRS' being broken you wont have trouble finding bits if you're serious.

Dont forget the rally flaps!

Those look great! Love the meaty tyres too.

If you have a mk3 fabia like what e-roottoot suggests then It might not be much help. I've got both a mk1 and a mk2 fabia but but have exactly zero experience with mk3s. Still, always love seeing peoples projects in the fabia projects section of the site.

Vrs intake pipe should work to get more cold air in. You can deflap the airbox too. Stock airbox works very well, with a bit of fettling it works even better. Some airfilter have a cotton sock over them, if you were after a bit of extra noise I'd remove it, and remove the drain on the bottom of the airbox. K&N do an airbox for fabias but it is literally just a deflapped version of the standard box. Basically repeating whats already been said but heyho.

I ordered mine the 5th of august and they only got accepted by the carrier 4th of this month! Ah well, hopefully neither of our cars fall apart without them

Box of goodies came in finally, Discs, new engine mount, heatshields and a cabin air filter. Changed the cabin air filter, popped the bonnet to change a sidelight that had gone out and took a look at the engine mount. Knew it was worn but compared to the new one it had collapsed in on itself. Was intending to wait and have all done when its getting serviced but seeing the state of the original one I just changed it then and there, not too hard. Driving it after made me sorry I didnt do it sooner. Much easier to drive and less vibrations too. Did end up swapping the top bracket off the original one onto the new one cause I wasnt sure the new bracket was the one for my car, Mount itself is the same though. Anyhow since the discs have arrived its just a matter of dropping the car off and having all done. Think I'll need to paint the heatshields though, they came unpainted. Went a bit ott and ordered some very nice parts that should be coming end of this week/start of next week so I'll fit them after the car comes back. Any guesses what I've bought?

Thats pretty impressive that it worked. How did you wire it up? Or have you just "sent it" by splicing in a resistor?

Doubt it for a facelift mk2 fabia, dont know of any other vw that uses those fogs. For anyone looking to retrofit fogs, would you not just wire the fogs to a separate switch? My car has 2 blanks where the heated seat switch would go, to me that seems like an ideal spot for a switch for fogs.

Doubt the red wears very well. Ages ago I went to view a red monte with red seats. Nice car but the seats looked pretty grungy even though the rest of the car was lovely. The grey seats in my monte still look perfect aside from some light scuffing to the drivers side bolster, and it currently having a lot more miles than the one I viewed. Plenty of not so careful passengers spilling everything from pesto to milk on the seats too and they still come up a treat!

Strange theres not been a stickied one before!

Wow! The body coloured grille really finishes the look on your car!

Such a strange costcutting measure of removing the gloveboxes on the easy and junior models. The most basic of mk2 fabias don't have any glovebox either. Surely it cost just as much to have a different panel than just putting gloveboxes in all of them?

I heard about Junior models before, they also had 1.9 sdi engined ones, also apparantly without power steering. From experience with my sdi and no powersteering, I don't envy whoever bought them.

Considering these cars came in metallic orange and even fantasy green, I suppose it shouldnt surprise me! Interesting its original, even moreso that it would be a pretty rare option. I've only ever seen mk1s with old man grey (like my car originally), or old man black and beige. Somehow I don't think its gonna make the car sell quickly.

Is there diesel in the coolant tank then?

So on the same lines as me putting stiffer spring in the back of mine then , granted for VASTLY different reasons! Have to love how easy it is to swap springs on the back of these.

What did you do to the rear suspension? Stiffer bushings?

Must have been for the car behind me Heard a PING coming from the car, got home to find one of the caps gone. Wasnt hard to figure out what happened

Seat dye 100 percent. Stupid cause i'm guessing the cheap stuff would come off onto someones sweaty behind on a hot day

I've ordered 2 sets of caps for both my fabias, coming from China so probably wont get them for a while! The spyders I picked up were missing the caps and the original ones on my monte are pretty poorly. Don't be like me and get stick one ones, they were great for about 4 months and then they slowly came off one by one. Heard one of them shoot off the car at 60!

If its the backbox you're on about I got a midpipe and a backbox for about 80 euro last year. My backbox was like yours, honestly would have been fine looking back.

Cleaned the undertrays and put them back on, waiting for those to dry I sprayed the subframe metallic grey for the hell of it. Hardly noticeable unless you put a light to it. I've decided to wait and leave the brakes to be put on when the cars serviced in a week or so, all the bolts on the calipers look crusty and i'm afraid i'd strip them, or worse take the threads out with the bolts.

Dont think theres any adjustment on later mk2s, aside from bushes with offset holes for the bolts.

No, both of my tyres wear evenly. Might wear down quickly but atleast its even. Had to have it aligned quite a few times because I was replacing worn out bits as I went. Few different places too. Just seems its how it is with this car.