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Sorry, it's 1.3l MPI So I understand that I'd better have a professional take a look at it, because all those possibilities you have listed are not quite something I am capable of identifying/fixing Thanks!

Hi there, I have a strange problem here. Today when I was driving around the city I noticed that when I came near a steep turn, pressed the clutch pedal and braked the car's engine stopped completely and I had to start it again. It happened three or four times until I got home. It runs well when standing still, though when the engine's cool it tends not to run smoothly while stationary. Later today the problem seemed to have disappeared, but sometimes the generator light would promptly show up when braking at the traffic lights or so, but not to the point that the engine dies. One more thing, when the car is stationary and I press the gas pedal the revs go up and when they go down, they sometimes go so low, that the engine get near stopping, I don't know if it's normal, probably not (it usually happens when the engine's temp is below normal) Thanks in advance for the advice and excuse me for my strange english

The dealer said it will be 190LTL (it's about 40 GBP), very much in lithuanian prices Thermostats for other cars cost about 20LTL (about 4 GBP)

It doesn't read high all the time, it actually reads very low most of the time (if I drive on a motorway it doesn't rise at all, as it should be with the thermostat taken out). The high temperature happens only when stationary for a longer period, so I think it's not the gauge that is the problem. Spent some time reading around the forum and found out that 110oC is probably the right temperature for the fan to start, so maybe it's no big problem... Waiting for an official Skoda dealer to get the thermostat now as they rarely have them :/ When I was buying the felicia, I didn't think it will be so hard to find spare parts for it. The newer Skodas are quite popular here in Lithuania, but it's quite a rarity to see a felicia running around. It would be easier if the motor was 1.6 (i think that's quite the same as that in thw VW Golf, and VW Golf is the every second car around here)

As for the fan, I don't what temperature should there be for it to turn on. It had turned on a couple of times when the temperature has risen up to 110, but I don't know if it's normal or should the temperature be lower. As for the head gasket, shouldn't that whitish mass which appears when the coolant mixes with the oil be there, when the gasket is blown? Because I checked a few times and it wasn't there.

Wouldn't the head gasket have broken completely after driving for two months with it blown, because the same symptoms continue since I have bought the car two months ago.

Well I added some water into the coolant as I lost some of it when disconnecting the thermostat. And the overheating was there before the thermostat was removed... When I bought this car I had to get water pump and the radiator changed, but it didn't improve overheating much.

Hello, I'm new to this forum, to Skodas and to cars overall, so this question may sound funny My Felicia is 1.3, 1997. The thermostat got broken, so a guy, who does maintenance for my car opened the housing up and the parts inside just fell apart. He removed the spring, some rubber thing and some metal thing out of the housing, which left me (as I believe) without a thermostat (no big problem, as it didn't work anyway). To my knowledge if the thermostat is taken out, the engine should always stay cold, as water always circulates through it, and it does so if I drive fast enough (i.e. on a motorway). But when I get stuck in some traffic jam of move relatively slowly (second or third gear) the engine heats up quickly (it takes about fifteen minutes to heat up to 110 in a jam). My question is: why does it heat up so quickly in the jams?