AnnoyingPentium

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.

Does it drop in and out? Mine is doing this, think it's the aerial base.

Of course, Lee. Gotta keep with the times!

Any warning lights? If so, get a code reader and/or VCDS on it. Otherwise, begin looking at lambda sensors, MAFs etc etc. Currently tracing a similar issue on my 1.2 12v BME.

Been a little while since I produced a post, but I've been busy with work and other life ****e yadda yadda yadda and the car has become a backburner type deal. Okay, I've got the excuses out of the way, time to actually get onto the important ****. To bring you all up to speed in small segments... Part One of Suffering: Brake Servo Hose The split brake servo hose that I masterfully taped up was constantly playing on my mind (what if it went etc etc etc), so I bought another one using my staff discount at the parts place that the work owns. Figuring out how to change this was rather confusing for such a simple part. A chain of PMs between @Breezy_Pete and I eventually cleared up the questions and fears I had about diving into this. Big thanks to him though. Now have a hose without red insulating tape on it. No longer fully matches the car, but ach well, safety and that. Part Two of Suffering: Stereo Replacement I blew up the old Sony stereo I had. That was daft. Didn't mean it though! Anyway, after accidentally making a blood brothers pact with the stereo cage that made it look like I'd got into a fight with a cheese grater, I had a car stereo with functional CD changer again! Wooooooo!! Now I can have Jesus Jones with the fantabulous autoreverse as well! Part Three of Suffering: Death Wobble The death wobble over 55mph was doing my head in, especially on longer trips as my hands would get really sore from clenching the wheel or the continuous vibration. To rectify this, wheel balancing was more than a must, it was a ****ing necessity. So that got done. I opted to check if the car needed tracking, and the garage checked, but honestly it's not bad enough, so that's fine. Part Four of Suffering: The Immediate Future At the time of writing, I have received a post-cat lambda sensor in the post and I'm trying to figure out where the hell the MAP sensor I ordered is, as I haven't got it. I'm seeing something variable between about 31mpg and 42mpg on longer trips, it's weird and costly. Got some trips coming up, so it's getting used quite a bit too. How exciting! Still got more to do, including procuring some front tyres as the tread is getting to where it's almost lower than I'm comfortable with. Part Five of Suffering: The Distant-but-not-too Distant Future I don't know the long-term for this car yet. I know that something will be incoming at some point this year, so that may mean the Fabia is gawn oot of the household, but there's a few things needs done with the incoming vehicle before I take it on (which the current owner is rectifying). It's non-Skoda, so sorry to disappoint. In an ideal world, the Fabia will be staying though. Even if only on limited use or something. Part Six of Suffering: Overall Conclusion Yes. Progress is finally happening. Got some more things to do still. 'Nuff said, eh?

Much better.

I'd say pull it from the outside. Or use one of the HatBoyHarvey videos online to get behind the wing and then batter it out from the inside. Worst case scenario, grab another wing from a breaker or something.