AnnoyingPentium

Hello and welcome to Briskoda!

Howdy and a warm welcome to Briskoda from a fellow Fabia Mk1 owner!

Sometimes we all do something without thinking, and besides, every day is a learning day - or some other quote to that effect.

Any chance your mechanic has left the ABS sensor unplugged? Using VAG-COM/VCDS will be able to tell you where the fault is, as well.

@@Lee, uploaded those files you sent me via e-mail the other day. Many thanks.

That's quite a clever idea, certainly makes sense as you have two cars that also share parts. Think it's PSB bushes I've got sitting about for the wishbones on the Fabia.

Do I sense a 'Non-Skoda Project' thread???

Is that it on the spare wheels since the Monte has the vRS ones?

FTFY.

Hello and welcome to Briskoda! Glad you're not one of the "scene, innit" types.

Haven't watched it in some time. Used to watch it when Anne Robinson was presenting - I also had an English teacher that looked like a "low budget" equivalent.

Can never think of Father Ted without giggling about this scene... Or this one!

Hello and welcome to Briskoda, Alan!

Aye ParcelForce are pretty decent. Was them that brought my alloys up from Bristol IIRC.

If you can find someone to get it to me then I can do the last leg up to Glasgow with it.

Hello and welcome to Briskoda!

I fell out with mine.

With my first and second vaccinations I felt terrible for a week or two. With this one it was a sore arm and that was about it actually.

I'm sure Don McLean wrote a song about such a photograph... Well, it was about Van Gogh but sureeeee...

Thanks, Lee!

Aye it's scraped back to the metal. There's two earth connections as one goes down the way as well. The original mount for that earth sheared clean off. That area isn't pretty overall. By the way, this is a photo of the writing on the pack for Cyl 1. And for cyl 3... You'll also see the liquid I was referring to. Feels a bit like WD-40 to me.

Think it was as I removed it. It pulled out quite easily unlike Cyl 3. I'll see what date codes are on them.

So yesterday evening my Fabia developed a misfire with no dash tell-tale. Would switch off or be incredibly lumpy at idle, would be hesitant and then misfire upon hard acceleration below 2,000rpm and was down on power overall. I had two coil packs kicking about ready to go in at the next service, but that came early. So, taking advantage of the gorgeous weather, I went out and sorted the damned car out. I had already changed coil pack two back when it severely misfired last December, leaving me to change one and three. Which I did. Pack three seemed to have some undisclosed substance on it and was pretty rough looking, so I'm assuming that's the one that has died. All of these old ones were Lucas branded, so I'm assuming they're OEM? Anyway, the new ones are Delphi's from TMS in Ayr (£20 a pop) so I'm pleased. Now, just to be sure the car was running okay, I took it a run up to one of my favourite haunts, Loch Doon. Or rather, the entrance to Loch Doon, where there's a nice car park. On the way up I decided to push it pretty hard to make sure it was pulling well, and can confirm it is. It's very torquey now unlike before and doesn't bog down when setting off from a standstill. Overall, I'm quite pleased.

Can confirm that it makes a world of a difference. With mine it also helped with gear changes too since they use the same reservoir. Besides that, changing brake fluid isn't exactly going to have the opposite from the desired effect/solution anyway.

Highly doubt an 08 Mk2 Fabia will have TPMS on it.