AnnoyingPentium

How are things going with your Octy now?

Each one adds 5 bhp, mind.

Och aye... the Scottish Special Edition, is it not?

@Stewartasb - I wouldn't worry about killing time till something goes wrong... it's only a matter of time before something goes anyway on a Mk1 Fabia. Fingers crossed mine has got me to Perth today... just getting back, new noises too...

Frankly, I prefer this John Shuttleworth masterpiece...

Nooooooo not at all.........

Yes I do. There's slightly more wind noise, but at this point I tune it out along with the clunking exhaust, console bushes, and other issues I don't want to spend money on. Turn the stereo up and it's fine.

Happy birthday, Ken.

Bosch. Think it was 8 quid at most.

We love ours for having the windows down a little when it's peeing it down without water coming in. Plus it lets us drop the windows enough for the dog too. Had them on previous cars too.

I'll sell you one (or all four) steel wheel(s) from a Mk1 Fabia, they'll fit your Mk2 AFAIK.

I've got Team Heko ones on my Fabia. Metal clips were a bit of a [female dog] to get in, but did eventually go. The deflectors do waggle themselves loose from time to time, but they just get pushed back in again.

I've had to drive mine without PAS before. I'm not that strong either, but managed it fine... besides the Sainsburys car park...

What he said. Never seen the fascination with a smoke map, personally. Kind of gives away any sort of an inconspicuous nature that the car would have had, in terms of hiding performance. That makes sense to a mildly heatstroked me, so make of that what you will.

Aye, it's similar here. Coup (c-ow-p (like ouch, almost)).

I probably should add that I'm a fairly keen fisherman when time allows. My rod is about 10ft or so, but splits in half, I can get it in if I fold down the rear seats of the Fabia.

I didn't know it wasn't a thing outside of Scotland! See also: outwith, which I didn't know was a mostly Ayrshire thing until a few years ago, lol.

I'll have to dig them out the hut and give them a wee clean up. They're right at the back. They can be seen in this photo, admittedly not very well. They clean up nicely, but you'll see the bit of wear just below the brake pedal. Otherwise, just use a place like simplycarmats.co.uk or whatever they're called now. I got my replacements from there and they're very good, easy to clean as well.

@roottoot is your man re:DSG boxes. I reckon that £10-£12k should see you with something reasonable. That's the going rate for 66 and 17 plate low mileage Fabias at my work.

Octavia Scout?

I have an original set here. You'll have to reuse the clips that are for securing the mats, but they're original Fabia ones. Driver's side has mild wear, but nothing serious since they came from a once at 55k car.

Good write up... interested in that 306 if you sell, by the way.

Aye I'd just replace the filter. Nip to a local motor factors or something and get one bought. See where that takes you by way of fault finding.