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Thank you for your detailed reply. 👍

Yes it is, thank you. As I’m always keen to learn, what happens if it is connected the wrong way round as I understand an electrical impulse is generated by the interaction between the disc on the hub and magnet in the sensor?

There are two wires

Hi, Today my son was “helping me” with the front brakes and for some random reason pulled on the ABS sensor wire. The wire pulled out of the connector so one job leads to another. My question is, does the polarity of the wires matter when I reconnect everything as I have nothing to tell which wire goes to which terminal in the connector? So at the moment, the ABS light is showing on the dash as I just insulated the ends of the wires and sealed the ABS sensor terminals from water ingress. If it does matter what will I see if I get the wires the wrong way round! All thoughts welcome!!

Garages not admitting liability is a major itrritation, especially main dealers. I have an Audi S3 which at the time had only ever been to my local main dealer for any work. I had to remove the undertray so I could remove the front bumper so I could fit an uprated intercooler as part of my modification programme. Most of the flat clips that the undertray screws attached to were missing and there were even holes where the clips should be. Obviously, too much use of the zip gun by them in the past. Audi Birmingam would not accept liability as I could not prove the car had not been worked on elsewhere but out of “good will” were prepared to pay for half of the damaged parts. As you can imagine, the car has never been back to that dealership! We also have a GTi that I bought new in 1998. At the time it only ever had brake fluid flushes at the VW main dealer. I took it in for a flush and 45 mins later the receptionist told me sorry mate, the bleed nipple has rounded off with the spanner so nothing they can do. I had an even bigger row with them as apparently, a VW garage cannot fix a VW car! I knew the master tech who came to my assistance. The car went back into the workshop, he extracted and changed the offending nipple, then flushed the brakes. We avoid main dealers like the plague, preferring to use specialist garages if we cannot do the job ourselves

On my five speed, I tried removing the chrome top from the topper and it was a mess! Probably your best option would be to remove and wrap the replacement part you have bought. It does not need to have the 6 speed logo on as I’m sure you don’t look at the gear stick when you are changing gear!

I just looked and nothing from what I can see in the U.K. I easily found the item on a site called Wagen shop in France but this has terrible reviews so beware! Others available elsewhere in Europe but my language skills are not good enough to decipher! Another possibly less attractive option is to buy a generic 6 speed gearstick for a Skoda Fabia Mk 1 from EBay.

I did the same job about 4 years ago on my passenger side. The window mechanism wire had become all tangled up. I just used the bare mechanism from ECP and had no issues since. It looks like the current drivers side comes with the door card. However, the door card rivets are hideous and using a standard one handed squeeze rivet gun knackered my knuckle joint as they are very tough. Fast forward to last year when the drivers door lock started misbehaving and so that side had to come off. I bought a 2 handed rivet gun from EBay of the type where you hold the handles like a pair of garden loppers and squeeze the handles together. These worked great with no ill effects. Don’t forget to reseal the lower edge of the metal door card to avoid water leaks into the footwell.

It might be worth checking with Skoda. The price I paid for my chrome coloured 5 speed cap from my local Skoda garage was much less than some on line places.

Here is the part number: 6Y0798002 Not a cheap item, I bought the standard 5 speed chrome version from Skoda for my 5 speed car.

The pads to definitely avoid are the economy range Skoda pads. I bought a set then took them back as they looked like someone had made them in their shed. Big lumps in the pads material and very rough backing plate. The label confirmed they were not made in Europe. They also cost much more than any of the easily available alternatives.

After fitting Brembo front discs and pads that started to judder, I ditched them and fitted ATE discs and Pagid pads. No problems since. Similar issues with Brembo kit on other cars. Other folks have no issues with Brembo.

All I can say is that the VW springs fitted to our Golf don’t really affect the handbrake feel but the others fitted to the Fabia do make the handbrake a bit harder to pull on.

These are listed as for a Fabia Mk 1:- https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404089114255?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&customid=EAIaIQobChMIrozfsO--gQMVHYtQBh2H2QilEAQYAiABEgLXifD_BwE

I did this many years ago with the Sharan springs to my Mk 4 GTi that had slightly tired returns on the handbrake lever. It certainly helped and the levers would always return properly after fitting. When new rear callipers were fitted, I transferred the springs and they are still there maybe 15 years later. From memory, I fitted the Frentech springs about 4 years ago to our Fabia. As before, they do a good job of getting the handbrake lever to return properly. The only downside on the Fabia is that it does make the handbrake slightly more resistant to being pulled on. Probably a slightly different position compared to the Golf for the positioning of the handbrake lever in the cabin giving poorer leverage. In conclusion, I’d fit them again if we had another car with the relevant slots on the calliper.