AnnoyingPentium

30 quid and came with the software and everything... so yeah, I will enjoy.

Box won't be going in until the spline bit arrives at Halfords on Wednesday. Oh well, plenty to do before then.

Thanks! I'm going to get one from Halfords today since I've got some other bits to get.

Man finds cider. Man gets tipsy enough to make stupid purchases. Man buys 2001 Sony Mavica. Man takes Mavica and takes some photographs. I'm still getting to grips with it since I've only had it since this morning as I rescued it from the sorting office, but I know that the first one could have done with some exposure tweaking since it is underexposed.

You'll have @sepulchrave having a fit.

Talking from experience... To have me on my Mum's policy for the Dacia Duster 1.0 it was £650 with a telematics box as a learner. For me to cover that car itself as the main driver it was £300 without a box. It was £251 for me to be covered as the main driver for the Fabia with my Mum and Granda as named drivers, also without a box. Try Collingwood, that's who I was with. Hope this helps.

Wait what?!

I had been looking for one for ages. Then I slapped the part number in for one and it was coming from a VW Amarok allegedly. P/N matched, so just worked from there.

Arrived today, planning to fit tomorrow so I have somewhere to put the cases of the CDs in the changer. We move quickly in this part of the world... apparently.

The cars that introduced me to Skoda weren't even in my immediate family really. The first was a Silverline Fabia belonging to a neighbour. I just thought it looked cool. The second was my cousin's Fabia vRS... that she rolled through a field. I was quite taken on by a local Felicia too. All of these cars are presumably scrapped now, especially the one that was rolled. When looking for my first car I saw a dark blue 1.4 Fabia, bit of a shed but it was £850. That sold, so the red one was the choice, and here we are now.

Learned in a 2017 Ford Fiesta, passed in a 2019 one that was basically the same but with an extra set of doors. Both were 1.0 turbo lumps. Obviously learned in my Fabia at home, my Mum's Duster twice and a shot of the old Auris on private land.

I agree. I do not agree with the concept of phoning people whilst driving. I drive, usually, to flush my mind of the people who annoy me.

Yep, that Mk1 ate handbrake cables as if they were going out of fashion but wasn't as bad as his 0.9 Uno for head gaskets, mind you. He gave the Punto to my Granny (his wife) after buying himself a late-run 2001 Vauxhall Vectra B. He eventually did buy another Punto, and that would have been my car had it not scattered oil, bodywork, and bits of subframe across the MOT testing station at the last MOT. The Vectra - Bog standard black 1.8 16v LS. Could shift when it wanted to. My Granda banned my Dad from driving it after they were all travelling down to the Lake District and my Granda looked at the speedo... "55... 60... 70... 75... 85... 90..." and then he said something about it!

Especially Fords of that era. I've never been in an Escort actually. My Granda had sold his Mk5 (so the one before yours) by the time I came about. He bought a 1997 Mk1 Punto instead, that, like the Ford, rust also claimed... in 2011 though!

My Great-Great Auntie had a burgundy one of those until about 2012 when the bin lorry took it out! She used the insurance money and some that was stashed for one of those "Limited Edition" Corsas, only gave up driving at 88 a couple of years ago!

I was inspired by recent discussions in the Mk1 Fabia section by @nta16 and @TMB to make this thread, plus some photographs I found. Dead simple, post a photo, chat a bit. In theory, it sounds good. So aye, who is going to get the ball rolling?

That's gutting. We could do with a resident 3D printer/CAD geek on this forum for making these things. Not me sadly, I build computers - anything after that ain't my problem.

"If yer no fast, yer last", as my Granny says... There's one that can be 3D printed that @TMB sent me. I wonder if it would be possible to get the designs for it now?

You know, that when I opened this thread I was expecting to see a Fabia doing doughnuts as if driven by a yob.

Have these been replaced?

I'm not quite sure what I'd want. A modified daily something and something to mess about with during the winter to get ready for summer. So with that in mind, probably a Mk1 Fabia estate (aim high, I know ) and the weekend something being an ST185 Celica or a first generation Subaru Legacy Outback.

True. It could have had a few of those ponies taken behind the barn and shot in the past 15 years or so, I reckon. I think it's a good laugh to chuck it into third and rev it all the way up when in need of a small bit of joy, actually. It's solid enough and works enough for when I need it most, so I can't really complain.

Jesus, is that where peak power* comes in on mine?! *in a relative sense... compared to a milk float.

I can confirm that the 1.4 MPI 8v was merely a bored out 1.3 with some fancy emissions gadgetry to barely bring it up to spec.

Thanks Mac!