AnnoyingPentium

Lovely looking motor! Welcome to the forums

Welcome to the forums!

There's a VCDS map floating about on this forum. I'm East Ayrshire even though my profile says Ayr (which is South Ayrshire). I don't have VCDS but I'm sure you could contact one of the lovely people who are local to us on the map.

This is a photograph I took at the start of the year of my happy place. It's a little path that follows the burn near one of the local villages. Possibly not even half a mile all in but it's nice since the Scouts have done work to the Promised Land gardens and sometimes it's nice just to sit up there and take in the countryside in this lovely part of the world.

I had an ulterior motive to replacing the air filter. Recently the car was doing behaviour that I'd regard as bizarre to say the least. I'd be sitting in neutral and it'd feel like it was about to conk out and then when running it would hold revs for longer before letting them drop at a slower pace. I put this down to the panel filter but it came back, this time I'm looking at a sticky throttle valve. I shall investigate and come back with answers... - it's still drivable, but just a bit odd to drive.

Welcome to the forums!

You've done some amazing work to the Fabia, DM!

Welcome to the forum!

Small update today! The wee car was beginning had been feeling a bit flat when driving it at times. I had removed the air filter and held it up to the sun and... no light came through. Now, I should have replaced the air filter when I changed the oil and oil filter and I had intended to do just that. However, the company I ordered from sent the wrong one and I already had to pay for postage to send it back and honestly couldn't be bothered, plus the air filter was not bad at the time. But by now, it was more choked than someone with hay-fever mowing their garden. A new filter was necessary for my red nugget and at the totally expensive cost of £4.60 I procured a panel filter for the car from my local TMS Motor Spares. After fitting the filter, I took the car out a small journey (also to get petrol) and the throttle response was much sharper and the revs are now more free-flowing compared to before... so it was clearly bad... So after that journey, some black magic voodoo malarkey had occurred and I was seeing a whole 57.6MPG apparently*. *it's not that I don't trust the trip computer but it seems a tad too optimistic.

Lovely red vRS there! Welcome to the forums!

It looks superb (sorry, I couldn't help myself ). Welcome to the forums!

I reckon it has faded where one side has seen a lot of the sun.

Seats are the same between hatch, saloon, and estate. You could swap a vRS interior into your current car, if you do so wish. Mk3 6L Seat Ibiza, Mk2 Fabia, 9N Mk4 Polo, and possibly some others that I've missed. Things from the likes of a VW Golf and Skoda Octavia and so forth will need some modification since they use different runners. The seat cushions should be the same for either side. I'm sure someone with a little more knowledge will be able to confirm how you'd go about doing that etc.

Welcome to the forums Mike!

Minor bump to this thread since I found one with a red interior and.... I don't like it at all. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274947831809?

Welcome @RunningDog to the forums!

That is a nice car! Welcome to the forums!

Thank you very much @group1rs!

I've been looking for some actually for that little extra storage!

Where did you get those from?

I'd double check that if I were you. My 2006 (56) is an Ambiente 1.2 HTP 12v (BME engine code, which you'll find under the boot carpet, should the sticker still be there) and I'm paying £170 but was initially led to believe it was only £155. The newer one is also more economical than the older MPI engine (which harks back to the days of old Skoda) where instead of mid 30s in terms of MPG, you can see 40-46 in towns and A/B-roads and possibly about 45-48 on dual carriageways (keeping to 65ish) from what I'm getting with mine. Hope this helps you a little bit. I haven't owned a 1.4 MPI so can't quite speak of them with complete confidence, but I've had my 1.2 HTP 12v since March and have done just over 2,500 miles since I bought it. P.S. Check for water in the spare wheel well if possible too. I had some there due to a leaking vent (fixed with bathroom sealant). Also are you aware the first one is a Cat N? - it looks alright however.

This bit is rather picture heavy... sorry! So this month has been good and I was feeling rather flush so some bits were done to my little Fab to make it a tad more handsome. First of all, I had added the alloys as you all will know by reading this thread. Last time I said I had sent away over the Internet for a new set of centre caps which were coming from China. Well, they arrived yesterday and with the help of my Grandpa (who filed down the edges of the clasps because these things were slightly oversized) and some patience, the centre caps were on! Before: After: Secondly, I had always had this gouge on the passenger mirror which I can only assume was caused by the previous owner(s) slowly running it along a brick wall, or something to that degree. Once again, a before: And an after, thanks to lovely bodywork shop local enough to me: My gearstick's gaiter had also seen better days, so it was time for it to be replaced with a leather equivalent from the 'net once more. I decided to keep the 'Sport' gearstick as I think it's very comfortable. I may look to fitting one from the Ibiza Cupra but only after I try it to see if it is better to hold. Before: After: I like that this has the red stitching as it ties in well with the exterior and is the start of what may be a running theme of red stitching as a "muted red" theme. This is all the modifications that I have done as of yet. The gaiter is by far one of my favourites so far as it really livens up the interior. Finally though, I decided to give the car a wash and used some of Auld Arnie's (Arnold Clark to anyone else ) alloy wheel cleaner to shift some of the brake dust hanging about on my lovely alloys. Here is the finished product as of now... It's not quite complete as there's a couple of issues I'd like to address - such as my fuel cap lacking the spring to pop it open - but that can wait as I have a system for getting fuel into the car. It's called having a passenger to pull the release from inside the car!

Well that's spooky... Mine arrived this morning!

I'd even consider one in another colour and spraying it even to something along the lines of Corrida Red even, or Fantasy Green . I'd like a 1/43 scale one for a diorama I'm working on, it's just a matter of one popping up on eBay.

Not directly related to my Flamenco Fabia but I thought one of my late night purchases would interest some of you here! They are 1/87 (HO) scale in size, so just a little too small for my model railway (1/76, OO scale to others) but they do make excellent display pieces. e As an additional note, I'm aware of missing photographs from here. They were connected via my website and had been removed and then re-uploaded. Some came back and some didn't. I am unable to fix this currently as I don't have the correct permissions to edit the post.