AnnoyingPentium

About damn time you started your own thread hiy... Moar piccies plz...

IIRC that centre rear headrest was a £45.00 option. It's an easy enough retrofit too, if you're that way inclined. I did it with my old seats in the Fabia, and made a guide on here I'm sure.

I'd be all over this if I was able to take it on, however thanks to mine rapidly becoming a project on it's own, I'm afraid all I can offer is an obligatory 'good luck with the sale'. It'd be a shame to see such an original car to be scrapped.

That much is true. But I'm 19 and I'll probably get shafted for insurance on the 1.4 16v never mind a 1.8 20vT... can insure a 2.3T Saab for almost the same as a 2.0 MPI Fabia as well. None of this makes sense!

These are what I used. Cannot remember for the life of me where they came from, though. Drilled rivets out, and replaced them with these and self-tapping screws. No issues so far.

Looks absolutely stunning, Matt. True dedication here.

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.