AnnoyingPentium

Thanks Matt, it's been a long time coming as I first uttered stuff about rear electric windows and all that stuff a while back. It's been a matter of trying to find the stuff I need, which hasn't been that easy at times. I've got a list of some more things I'd like to do, such as heated seats and possibly an AUB 1.4 16v, as the 8v MPI doesn't offer much over the HTP as it is, bar an extra cylinder.

Potentially. I shall take a photo of the boxes of what I used. At the moment, with the new doors going on, I'm about to have three doors that have screwed in regulators, and one that's still rivets...

Drilled mine out, and used push in thingies that allowed for a screw thread... I completely forget the name of em.

You're a bad influence, you are! That car of the year sticker needs to be made into a replica!

That'd be me, then! Spent ages chasing my tail, only for it to be solved by a tenner on a fuel filter. No fault codes since.

Just take the motor from the old regulator to the new one. I paid £35 for a replacement regulator for the driver's side, and just swapped the panels and fitted my old (technically refurb as it was provided by Pete's excellent refurb/repair services) motor to the panel.

There's two! Chap on Auto****e (or cornishcarspots on T'Instagram) has a very weirdly specced Mk1 1.4 8v estate in fantasy green.

Can you find yourself a Fantasy Green estate...? That'd do ya...

Just crap photography skills... you'd think for someone who used to work with manual 35mm film cameras I'd actually be good with a phone camera but nooooooo

The console bushes are prone to wearing tyres through. I scrubbed a set clean in about 4 months (or 4,000 miles). Tracking was a bit out... wheel is dead straight here... The wheels, however, have more of a squint than Columbo...

Compact disc changer has been installed. It works, but is senile. Sometimes forgets that there is discs in certain bits. Can resolve that later. It does work if you spam the buttons on the stereo anyway. Contact has been made with painter man ("painter man, who would be a painter man"... well bugger me I need help) about them there Stranglers spec car doors. I'll let that last joke settle in a bit there. Oh yeah, bushes are having a fun time, I think. A decent amount of toe out at the moment (to the point where it's visible to my appalling eyesight) so will have to see to that before I scrub the tyres clean.

Cheers. Shouldn't be too bad since I'm merely assisting and providing money to a mate who has retrofitted them before (and is an automotive electrician). Next moves will be heated seats (arsewarmers for the less posh folk) and cruise control, methinks. The 1.2 12v base engine? Not sure what I'll do with it yet. Would like to 1.4 16v swap this, but I'd be waiting until the 1.2 does the inevitable thing and the timing chain leaves the chat.

It's full of stuff, including some emergency kit (McCoys Salt & Vinegar crisps, of course) and suchlike. Plus enough tapes to travel the world with a soundtrack lol.

Tidied the Fab up in prep for going away a few trips over the coming weeks. It's looking quite good for a nearly 17 year old car. Oh, and also, big thank you to @vRS19TD for providing yours truly with the correct switchpack. I just need to wire in the rear windows now, but I've got this in and controlling the front windows from it fine.

It wasn't me! Congratulations on the sale.

Lol where do I start...?

That sounds about right for work carried out by me. Know a guy with a Golf that does this too, when you put the key in to move the windows, the fronts go up, and the rear down, or vice-versa sometimes.

New thread title to reflect the insanity that is the work being carried out on this car.

Worthwhile hanging about, even as a non-skoda owner, or us half/half types... Aw tha best.

@varooom is good with P/N's IIRC.

Yeah, at one point there was a whole wad of bronze/gold ones for sale but they've dried up. It was one of the funky colours Skoda did on the early ones, like the array of greens and suchlike! It's got rear discs as it's a 1.4 16v AUB thing. Quite a decent wee car. If I knew the engine worked... and we had a trailer. We'd have been off with that too.

Wasn't sure when I'd get another opportunity to find a Fabia like that, so took my chance and harvested all the good stuff. Thankfully the other Ryan is an automotive electrician, and wired his own rear electric windows in on his 07 plate "was once a 1.2 Bohemia" Golf PD150 engined estate. So I'm just going to do the easier job of the 6 disc changer while he swears at the car for a bit. The guy who painted his car is going to do the gold doors, making them flamenco red so my car doesn't look a bit daft. We hacked that Elegance apart for anything we even thought we may need. We should be prepared enough. Ryan's (not me, I don't speak about myself in the third person... usually) after a Mk1 saloon to PD, but wants a petrol manual base (so an AUB or equivalent)... this suits me fine for the masterplan (not to be confused with that one Oasis album). Already out in the car! Had one tape left lying in the little DIN drawer which is now in the machine. Got a box out with some cracking albums. Will take a photo later!

Cheers Trev. *The other Ryan* picked it up for me when he was up a few days ago along with the changer, and we went back today to get the rest of the bits we were after.

All parts collected today. Filled a V70! The MS502 fits perfectly and as far as I can tell from brief testing, works great. It's like the VW Gamma unit but with a slightly different design. Very good, and I've got the matching 6 CD changer for going under the seat. That includes the loom. As for rear electric windows, I have everything but the motor and the switchpack, as both had been removed from the car. Those doors you see there are from the donor car, which was a gold 51 plate Elegance with everything but heated seats (which was odd). Going to get a mate of a mate to spray the doors in Flamenco Red and just fit them quite the thing, as they're in much better condition (and less rusty) than my own ones. Win win. Test fitted one of the Elegance door cards today, from the driver side door. Looks decent, and the Elegance of a certain age is a better quality car overall. The one we picked from was rust free, with a really clean interior, I'd have taken the seats too if I didn't like my own Bohemia ones as much. The Elegance, it turns out, has soft touch plastics in the armrests and suchlike, which is miles nicer than that of the Classic and Comfort/Ambiente. The image below is of our "victim" of vulturing, a 51 plate Elegance in bronze/gold/brown whatever. A weird spec 1.4 16v model. Not too bad though. Also purchased a vRS steering wheel at the yard, it's in good enough nick and may get fitted later as I actually quite like the three spoke now. Other things have been bought, like paperwork to accompany the car, tax discs, boot badges, and some other wee odds and ends that will complete my own car. Recycling, or what?

As per the "MS402/502" wanted thread, I've got one... and rear electric windows, kinda. It's going to be a hell of a job, at least for the electric windows, but it'll pay off I'm sure. Going to grab the parts tomorrow amongst other things. Will update this thread accordingly.