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Did you have a look at the video I put into this link. - SBDR Don't get me wrong if you have the chance for a ride in a 220 take it. For other super and hypercars that just not much fun on UK roads at least. Even at totally illegal speeds you just don't know you are going as a passenger but that is the same for even mass market modern cars, 60 and 70 mph is nothing on many roads even with an average driver and even less so with a good driver ( I am not a good driver). The driver makes a big difference as a total generalisation in my experience many Fezza owners don't really know how to drive their cars because the same as many "classic" drivers they do not drive the vehicle to learn what it is capable of and what they as the are capable of driving the car. Lambo drivers tend to be a different sort, if you have the choice of going out as a passenger in a Fezza or Lambo I would suggest the Lambo. Of course some own and drive both Fezza and Lambos and other marques and types of car so it's not a solid rule. Don't bother going out with a test driver or track instructor on the public roads as they are so smooth at driving they make the speeds seem a lot lower than they actually are. I went out with a test driver, in a Noble M400, on the public roads and his driving style was so serene yet he was out driving the Fezza that was in front of us until we went passed, all within legal speed limits and safe driving, the M400 is a good car against a Fezza though, but so was my mate's Westie 4.3 V8 (well built engine). You are even more in touch with the environment in something like a Westfield than even something like a Midget, less windscreen no doors (unless you fit the granny sidescreens) lower to the ground (not as low as a Lotus Elise or Lotus/ Westfield 11) and those front cycle wing do not stop you getting slurry up your arm and nostrils (it stings). 😄 I think you saw the hurried video my neighbour made of the Midget, did you also see the hurried video my neighbour done of another mate's Westfield 130 (Ford Zetec 130 engine) with me trying to drive it with the seat too far back so I could not fully operate the accelerator (I am 1.6m the seat was adjusted for someone 1.9m) and with my (Covid) lock down locks (uncut hair) and baseball cap flying off (not in final edit). If not I can put up a link for you. I really like the ability to overtake a line of cars (but you are on the wrong side of the road for a long time and I did have to look out in case someone in the line might pull out in front of me having not looked in their mirror or not expecting my car to be with them so quickly) but I enjoy more overall having a small low powered car as it gives more entertainment and at lower speeds. Even a low powered car most of the time is only using a fraction of its power so a higher powered car is wasting more of it power much more often and for longer. All about how the car feels and makes you feel. Many like the standard VW Beetle or vans and they can hardly pull their own shadow.

Remember the petrol but not the adverts. I think I remember it was said to ruin the old loose new Vauxhall and the like engines. Did any good engines (you know, like the Japanese ones) have proven problems I can't remember. I discount Police cars as I'm surprised any Police car holds together especially the ones with the Traffic cops. The only drivers that make me a bit nervous as a passenger are Police motorbike riders driving a car, I've been out with two, the second I didn't even know he was Police but when I asked him if he was a Police motorbike rider by any chance he said yes and how did I know. 🤣 At least some of the ex-Police BMWs won't be going to market this year after they've finish service, too embarrassing for BMW, wouldn't want the impression of German engineering quality dented, private BMW owners have always usually keep quiet about problems out of marque loyalty and to keep up the resale value of their vehicle. Years ago a near neighbour was telling my about the engine problems on his 5-year old 5-Series and how glad he was that he was able to get shot of it and how he'd picked up a 10 year-old Lexus 400 as an interim vehicle but it was so good and absolutely everything worked on it so well that he was going to keep it. I remember the Lexus 400 first coming over and the Lexus UK Dealerships opening and setting new standard for dealing with their customers but that's another story and all changed now.

ETA: Thanks for reporting back. The VW computer systems want things they way they want best not to upset them, let your battery get too low for them and see how they react. If the second unused bulb from the other side carries on working OK then do, after a sufficient period of use to confirm this, throw away the bulb taken out so you don't forget and reuse it elsewhere and perhaps have the same happen again. Just had a thought, you could perhaps use the bulb the VW computer doesn't like in a vehicle that doesn't have all these computer overlords rather than waste a possibly functioning bulb. I had a new (brake light) bulb be faulty and a different unused spare (brake light) bulb not work from storage, particularly modern made bulbs, over here at least, are cheaply made you have to buy a "heavy duty" or good make to the the standard quality of the past. Someone in Tasmania told me he's just had to replace a bulb on his car for the first time in 17 years I don't think the replacement would necessarily last 17 years even if the car did.

Blimey, did you get out the wrong side of the bed and hit your head and stub your toe. 😄 Yes and the outside of the car might get washed and polished too. These TSI, FSI, TSFI, wotever engines need all the help you can give them, sound badger's-arse rough at the best of times, mind I remember the m-i-l's Golf Mk2 1.6 petrol sounded rough and I was used to BLs. 🤣 You lost me there, are you now favouring Shell V-Power over the the others for cleaning properties? And I agree with the OP I think calling 95 something like Regular makes more sense.

😄 Yeah, sorry, I meant to one-finger type check the connections under seats and anywhere you might have been working behind the dash or on the steering but it didn't make it from head to finger. If the garage have the right scan tool it should help track down the issue, and reset it, 😄 good luck.

@CameronD1997 your fuel flap has 95 min. not max. Depending where you are in the country, unless things have changed since I updated the list 13/9/21 (I've not checked since) Esso Synergy Supreme+ 99 although labelled E5 is ethanol free (except in Devon, Cornwall, North Wales, North England and Scotland). Esso 95 (E10) is up to 10% ethanol. One of the reasons to go for the higher octane petrols is that they contain more cleaning additive in their additive packages, than the standard 95 fuels, which may help combined with blow-out runs but it may take up to a couple of tankfulls to do well. My wife has just put a couple of tankfuls of Tesco Momentum99 in her Fabia and she's very careful about fuel prices but the VW engine is a noisy thing and the computers give so many different engine bay sounds at different times even she's willing to give the higher octane and greater cleaning packages a try, unfortunately I've been unable to give it the blowout runs at this time. More effective is to have the spark plugs in good condition which often boils down to changing them before they go off too much, and to have the engine air filter in good condition, you don't want muck in, muck through and muck out, eventually the car won't like it. I suggest using a couple of tankfulls of the higher octane fuels spread over before, during and after a service and/or MoT and when and if you feel like at other times. The 13/9/21 list, feel free to check with the fuel companies and update as required, be great if you'd let me know any changes. - petrol.pdf

Think you're gonna need a suitable reset tool for that. If you don't have access to such have a look at this map and see if there is anyone nearby that may be able to help you with it. - Briskoda VCDS Owners Map (click me)

That is just a reader and doesn't appear to be a very expensive one, doesn't mean it's bad as a generic reader Autel are generally thought of as doing good machines but that is just one of there code readers, and not specific to VW I'd guess. You'd be better to find a full diagnostics scan tool and more specific to VW or covering your car. Have a look at this map and see if there is anyone nearby that may be able to help you with a full report or reading using more specific tools. - Briskoda VCDS Owners Map (click me)

Put some anti-slip matting over it, tuck in at the ends and no one will know the difference.

Well cassette tape and the player are wearing to each other in use and a car's cabin isn't the best environment for cassettes especially if it's somewhere that gets very hot. The cassette was never a music medium I ever really like other than for making your own music compilations and then C60 or C90. I can not remember the last car we had with a cassette player in. Why there is a resurgence in pre-recorded cassette albums is beyond me, the original pre-recorded cassettes were generally poor sound quality from new.

I am so very sorry to hear this and wish you well as soon as possible. I am just back from not walking with my cat as it was too busy for him.

Same sort of warnings as the page 78 of the other Handbook, at least you don't have any message so if hopefully it is just the filter then a good enough outcome. As has been suggested if you can just change the filter then that seems the easiest and least expensive thing to try especially if you don't really lose any oil doing so as the garages you've been to seem not interested. Good luck.

Yes modern petrol cars may not be so good at puttering around short distances at low revs and speed do remember to read the relevant 2018 Fabia 'Owner's Manual' for what, if any, extra with driving them might be required to keep the GPF and computer program happy. Free VWSkoda pdf downloads are available from here. - https://manual.skoda-auto.com/004/en-com/Models In case I forgot, do check the car's battery is in good condition and in a good state of charge and keep it that way. Even if the car starts and the lights seem bright enough the battery can still be too low for the computer systems and by the time you get the warning messages and lights it can be a bit late and all sorts of unexpected issues and warning can surface and your battery may not fully recover. Some fine they also need the occasional use of an appropriate battery charger and maintainer in addition to the car's use. At this age depending on previous owners and the car's use or lack of the battery may have already been (prematurely) changed or need changing (or charging). Don't not think a Dealership or garage will necessarily do the right think with a battery or try to short change you with any warranty. That doesn't mean all Dealerships and garages are bad, or wholly bad, or that they don't have some good employees. Do bear in mind most "servicing" done now is just about an engine oil & filter change which isn't even a proper engine service let alone whole car service so if there is any collaborating paperwork do study it carefully, put it in reverse chronological order and check it all ties up. If the annual service was only done at 18-months or later then it wasn't an annual service (or more likely engine oil and filter change) may not be the end of the world but could be a bargaining chip if all else is good with the car and you want it.

Yes milk is to be avoided as it can sometimes get into more than the upholstery, you might have been able to get it out but only time would really tell and how much. As you have probably learnt these automatics are not automatics as they were in older cars, personally I'd avoid them but very many here would not doubt totally disagree with me and have good reports about them. I think the manual gearboxes already have enough modern complexity. @toot will have the long and short about these boxes and what it is for a 2018 Fabia. He's posted whilst I'm still one-finger typing. 😄 You don't see as many owners report as much on 4 and 5-year old cars as on older cars for understandable reasons and you can't give too much trust to commercial motor trade sites and reports but you need to cross reference any information you get with other reliable sources as much as you can. Many VW owners can be very loyal to the marque so are more forgiving than the likes of me that give warts and all to the marques I've had (never had a VW but Skoda before VW took it over).

Surely it should be the mechanics at the garages you asked or took your car to that should feel stupid and not you. An experience with the motor trade to remember and learn from, no doubt along with others in the future unless you're very lucky. At least it's not an expensive fix so all's well that ends well.

Thanks, but that position was probably for lower powered speakers and an expected acceptance of lower quality sound as the market for the car when new was not generally aimed at those that wanted higher quality "ICE" (in-car entertainment) as it was called in the UK then. As with other components, items and parts in cars they can often be put in an available space rather than by full design.

Sorry I think you misunderstood me. I am old, the last radio I fitted to a car was a 1970s New Old Stock Philips mono push-buttons AM/LW on to a single 2w speaker, about 16 years ago. I got my first home "hi-fi" in 1976, a few years before commercial digital (tape) recording and it was early 80s before you could get a few (expensive) home CD payers and mid-80s before home players and discs were generally widely available. If I remember correctly the full price discs were £13.24 in 1985, I am not sure that you could get a home CD player below £100 at that time. Lower priced mass market cars did not have factory fitted CD players until about this century if I remember correctly. I think I still have some 3 and 5-pin DIN plugs and sockets cables in the shed along with if I have not given them away RCA, and full and mini jack cables and adapters from various home equipment over the decades.

Sorry I was not being serious with the question, I chose to have the same colour body and same wheels, other than perhaps Minilite style wheels I prefer steel wheels with chrome hubcaps. I also liked the swept front wings but Westfield would not put then on the SEiGHTs as they made the from too light at higher speeds. The front cycle wings were fun to see as you rightly put they turned with the front wheels. I also preferred the indicators in the swept wing and larger headlights and bowls but they would be in the way of the cycle wing guards when turning. Note the original The Prisoner's 7 is with hand signals (and fixed seat back rest. There was very little aerodynamic in the shape of the cars and windscreens, hence eye protection. The Favorit was a few years before the Mini, she did not like the driving position in the Mini and it is a bit odd, plus she really wanted the Fiat Cinquecento which she bought later that year when the new UK registration was out. I did not want to get a Fiat as they were as Fiats generally were not that well built and would have issues fairly soon and the UK Fiat Dealerships and not great even by English Dealership standards, unfortunately I was proved right about these things but luckily not too badly and her car was resprayed "lipstick red" by a local place that done a good job under warranty especially after I was asked what I had used to clean the car and reeled off a list of polishes and waxes, I could not do that now as I do not use them, or can remember a list. 😄 They are low cars so it takes an idiot and bad driving to flip them. The roll (over) bar is not just for show it does function but like "classics" there are very few safety features compared to more modern cars, seatbelts are great, the roll bar not anywhere near as effective without seatbelt. Biggest safety measure is to totally avoid getting into any problems and drive better. There was a Lotus 6 before the Lotus 7, a mate had a 6 back in the 60s, they were not worth as much then. There is a whole load of history with Caterham and Westfield and why the Westfields had to be developed on so were able to fit in different and bigger engines and the motorbike engines and Caterhams had little development. There were are lots of kit-car copies of the Lotus 7 not usually anywhere near as good as the Westfield or Caterham. Friends have had Mercs and some were real V88 AMGs (not just trim level badge) and they are not what I enjoy, AMGs at least have the right exhaust noise. We have had a few Kei cars and they are ideal for the better UK roads. It is not about the ego speed on the dial it is all about how the car feels on the road and makes you feel as the driver (or passenger). Better UK roads are 60mph or now 50 or even 40 in places so lots of power and speed is either not possible or a waste. Straight fast roads are OK for a quick cleaning blow out but to me are very boring very soon and higher speeds are potentially much bigger damage. Sorry I do not believe in excessive regard for any, well, anything, there is a Jag 220 in the club that has often taken people out at SBDRs, I have not been out in it but I believe there is a lot of noise and the radio might shoot out of of its housing on acceleration but that might be a myth(?). I was out on a mixed car run, in the Midget, with a McLaren (something, it was orange) and unfortunately I got stuck behind it at one point on a country road and like all these super and hyper cars it is too wide-arsed so had to slow or even pull over on not even that narrow country roads holding us up on gaps I could have got a standard car through easily and the Midget one and a half times. I have had this before on other runs with Fezzas (Lambo drivers are generally a different type and less cautious). The family that owned the Jag 220 also had a few other cars too and liked small quirky cars and had ones like the (3-wheel) Grinnall Scorpion, Carver One (leaning 3-wheeler with original Kei-class Diahatsu Copen engine) and had a 'grey import' Copen before my wife got her early UK Copen. Some in the club like us could barely afford a Midget and others have a fleet of vehicles but we are all just people.

Forgot my usual - you can get lots of useful info from reading and referring to the relevant 'Owner's Manual', and you need to now even for simple jobs you thought you knew how to do from decades of experience. VW can complicate putting a fresh battery into a remote, the newer the car the more complicated the simple stuff. 😄

Blimey at those prices I think I might try car recycling places (scrappies) scrappies in Norfolk always seemed to have (much) lower prices but that might all be in the past now. Good luck.

@Dazl1212 if you have the correct 'Owner's Manual' for your car it should give you (mostly?) the correct info (allowing for bad descriptions and translations and omission and errors, but apart from that 😀) as long as a Dealership or garage has played the shuffle with the books. Other thing can be perhaps your car is a pre or post build to the copy of the book I put up - or simply a different model. Tomorrow may tell - if it is the correct book you can learn a lot more from it than you may expect, with particularly later VW stuff it's best to refer to the relevant 'Owner's Manual' even for simple jobs you've for decades as things just get more complicated with time and the German car manufacturers love to show how clever they are by making things even more complicated, and sometimes failing, very, very rarely of course, and certainly nothing to do with slightly intermittent German engineer quality. 🤣 "I'll get me coat"

Have a look at "Variable loading floor in the luggage compartment" in your 'Owners Manual', whether that is what you mean, I'm not sure as my wife's Fabia is a hatchback. If you don't have a printed paper copy you can get free VWSkoda pdf versions from the VWSkoda website. - https://manual.skoda-auto.com/004/en-com/Models If this doesn't cover what you want then more info is required like the build or registration year of your car or you could search this site as the subject of the rear seats not fully folding down on the Mk3 Fabia has been covered a couple of times that I've seen. For a VW Polo 2019 then try here. - https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-services/my-car/manuals.html

You can check by looking at your 'Owner's Manual', if you don't have the printed paper version you can download some pdf (free) copies from SEAT (same as you can from Skoda). The SEAT site only shows 2011 Leon as 5D, I've no idea if this is correct for your model, or Copas generally, but here's the link anyway. -https://www.seat.co.uk/owners/your-seat/manuals-offline With the appropriate 'Owner's Manual' by reading it and referring to it you can sometimes know more about your model than many long term owners, and some at garages. Your model might be different - but the online 2011 (07/1) 5D manual, page 77, shows the engine oil pressure warning lights as just to the left of centre of the speedo (needle) (item 17). - From page 78. - Page 87 gives details of the various warnings and what they mean. -

Will there be enough air space behind those speakers and is the centre consul strong enough or braced enough for them. Do yourself a favour and do not go too loud inside the car, I had tinnitus for a while from being a home hi-fi (music not cinema, two speakers only) from years of having stereo rigs too loud for our small living room. And perhaps do (yourself and) others a favour by making sure the car's panels do not rattle with the sub or other speakers and perhaps insulate a bit in case others outside your car do not share the same taste in music as you. I of course only listened to good music. 🤣 I did recent go round someone's as they have lots of original 60s vinyl (used to be a record plugger for a big record label) and has class a and valve 20 or 25w amps and at one point I had to ask him to turn it down a bit, no wonder he's a bit deaf. At car shows I once stumbled across a section for fitted car sound systems and I was told (luckily did not hear) that for the completion they do not play music but specific test sounds - which is why I gave up on home hi-fi equipment as I was listening to the equipment and not the music. Other than the radio now and again I rarely listen to any music now, I hear the vans, BMWs and Audis when nearby or have their windows dropped. 😄 Boom, boom as my wife says, but not in a John Lee Hooker way. 😄 Good luck anyway.

I love these infills. - I know it is a work in progress and it probably only bothers an old folk like me but I hate to see wires and cables in a car, is it possible to wire in a hidden or different connect for whatever that cable is used for and hide or loose the cable. And I am curious about the two speakers(?) there doesn't, to me, appear enough room behind them for speaker magnets(?) or enclosure with the inset box tray (open area). -