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Brake fluid, brakes, tyres. Check suspension. Air filter, cabin filter (fuel filter(?). Check battery and alternator. Air-con(?). Personally I'd clean the MAF sensor and run a couple of tankfulls of V-Power before, during and after the service. That's me out of ideas.

If it's a Mk 2 Fabia have look in that section of the site and/or post a thread there as it might get more notice from the posters there. - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/113-skoda-fabia-mk-ii/

Sellotape brand products are generally a bit more expensive but often much better than many cheaper copies, but I am not promoting German products as I get enough hassle from VW products! 🙃 https://www.sellotape.co.uk/en/history.html

Off-topic warning. - Only trying to help with English, not criticising as I struggle with English and it is my only language and you may well have different names to over here for items. I am not sure what you meant by Siam (Siamese cats are quite distinctive), Sellotape is a brand name product for usually a clear (transparent) tape on a cardboard roll, other makes will also be referred to as "Sellotape" even though they are not (same as many refer to vacuum cleaners as "Hoovers"). Sellotape was originally a British company but as with some many others no longer so, now owned by a German company apparently. I have never seen a black Sellotape, it would not be suitable for what Sellotape is usually used for where clear (or white perhaps) tape is used. Many "Duct tapes" or "Duck tapes" are often black. Decades ago we had a small young black cat adopt us, which did not please our own cat, but the black cat liked to wonder and was often found in other neighbours' homes and unknown to us had a second breakfast at the home of two old ladies across the road. As he was black and this being England we called him Chalky, chalk being white, the same way a chap who is short might be nicknamed Lofty (high up), from old Army days I think as with Chalky for those whose surname was White. ETA: Selotejp looks fantastic.

Thank you, I thought that was the case. I was surprised to see the the average brake force of the front and average of the back were almost exactly the same but that is good but I don't know how it was measured, we have two or three systems over here. But as you have found these figures do not tell the whole story. Sorry for the distraction.

I took that to mean there is 3% difference from one side to the other but that could be that both sides are braking well, poorly or in differently, with the 14% on the rears one side isn't working as well as the other - is that not what the % difference means?

ETA: nice going discovering it though Wait and see if it works first, and it might be different trim levels get different programing and different years got different hardware and software (wotever those are) - I'd ask pab57.

Sorry to hear about your write-off Graham. If Superbs are too expensive and/or high-mileage for what you want why not consider other models or makes and models. Perhaps with less toys (and computer programs) so less to go wrong in future and/or more reliable, less parts replacements/frequency and perhaps servicing vehicle model make/model. (If you got the VCDS I'm sure you could get you money back on selling it, if needed.) Now the others can advise on relative Superb models and mileages. Good luck, all the best to you.

Mike, SuperbTWM by coincidence the Update tonight on my neighbour's machine included the Demo mode in the 7 updates, 6 were downloaded and installed (wireless) in seconds but the one for Mercy Benz Maybach stretched to well over a minute. I don't know if this will help or hinder, give an idea or not, in DEMO the VW is a sample Toerag with just a couple of engine and lane assist codes as examples but I took a quick look, only saw Adaptive Cruise Control to get anything from as mealy an example. As the system's only on at tablet (I think they're called) at the moment and not laptop size screen it's too small for my eyes I didn't wade through the hundreds of possibly points of info and just took a couple of screenshots from the Adenoid, you'll need to download and zoom in for info, if it's of any use (BCM2).

OBDEleven possibly, certainly 'code' a battery change.

Spoken like a petulant early teenage boy who's forgot he swallowed a thesaurus previously. If you want to play with them bananas that's fine by me I know their potential locations, just don't go into whinging tears later, even if your gang-of-one has the aloe vera tissues to hand.

Mike, for info only as you asked, by still stay around for SuperbTWM's reply. Ross-Tech Wiki - http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page They also have a forum. I've no idea about VCDS but the scan tool I've used has demos across a wide range of manufacturers and vehicles but obviously preloaded and limited in scope. This is on the Ross Tech site, I've no idea how useful it'll be to you as I've never tried it, something to play with whilst you wait. - https://www.ross-tech.com/vcds/tour/main_screen.php

The OP has manged my previous long posts without confusion, the matter had been completed and if I want to post about recycling to someone from Sweden I will - without your permission. This is not Facebook or Twitter, nor is it your site or are you a Moderator, so I do not have to conform to your short form posts or mind or your insulting demands and condescending remarks. That is your problem - you don't care about others being right when you are wrong. You often give short sarcastic answers or belittling posts but never accept when they are wrong. If it's not in you to admit, just for once, that you were wrong and/or insulting then don't bother picking on me again. - until you own the site or a Moderator and can show how I've broken any site rules rather than the narrow rules in your narrow mind. I've no idea what's on Reddit (or even what it is) I 'll have a look at it and chew it over with a bowl of AAAs and PP9s.

I have just rang the recycler concerned and he confirmed they will still buy a single car battery, he said prices are good at the moment but of course it's value depended on it's weight. @sepulchrave if you (or anyone else) wants to phone them to see if I made it up or are a battery-eating madman I can give the phone number - but as I've yet to see you admit to ever being wrong or apologise for attempting to belittle posters I don't expect you to change now. If you don't follow up then stop trolling me, unfortunately I have leave others to defend themselves from you but I will defend myself, a bully like yourself ought to know this late in life who is not a good choice as a victim. Perhaps you will surprise me and ask me for the number, ring them and then apologise, even if not publicly, but I'm not sure you can breakout of your stereotype - but you might surprise me, and others.

So in your total arrogance you believe if you don't know of it then it can't exist. That is straight out insulting without your usual pretence or covering humour, if it's not a wide spread practice I can edit to here locally. I'm sure that's supposed to be an insult towards me but it doesn't make much sense, perhaps it's mixed with your final insult. The batteries were taken in and money received by an ex-engineer (fully qualified) friend of mine, would an-engineer (fully qualified) lie to me, I will have to ask. I'm sure you don't live in Brighton, the people there wouldn't put up with your attitude, so if you're nearer or ever around the Northamptonshire/Leicestershire border bring a car battery you want to dispose of and I can show you where and you can decide how mad either of us two are. Until then cut out the insults, you can disagree with anything I put and be as humorous as you like but put in a bit more effort by dropping the insults.

Sounds like you squeezed that battery as dry as you could. Your new battery and use of battery charger will have it outliving the car by a long way I expect. Over here you can get say £8 for the old battery as "scrap" (recycle) this recycles and also safely and responsibly disposes of them (concepts foreign to some). Those that wish to could donate this money (and more) to a chosen registered charity (against their nature for some) and the charity can claim a further 25% on top if the donor has that year paid sufficient income or capital gains tax (unfortunately an absolute anathema to some).

So your car is not a start/stop model then (I have no idea what is sold in Sweden)? I cannot remember how far you got with the car I think you changed the spark plugs but did you check or change the engine air filter (and perhaps cabin filter too). I hope you tossed the old battery to recycling, we can get a little money back here in UK used car batteries.

Yeah some of them Aldi drivers, previous generation of those were in BMWs, don't bother engaging with them as the have most to loose having the nicer car. I've found older Aldi diesels kick out the worst black **** clouds I've ever seen, one was from my neighbour's, much worse than some old bus in the 70s. But to be fair, the go-faster stripe possibly goaded the pea-brain. 😄

@mshere conesus of opinion (I can't remember seeing any strict evidence, or I might have forgot) that I have seen is as varoom has put. It could well be that everything works but will your new expensive AGM battery last as long and operate as well without the 'coding' until anyone shows proof by many years of efficient service from the new uncorded AGM battery we won't know for sure as VW likes to keep secrets and hide things. Halfords have their own battery numbering system and database and batteries marketed for them, nothing wrong with their batteries they're good but expensive often. One my neighbour bought had an extra level bar to the battery foot bar which he didn't want me to cut off so it took me an extra 20 minutes to adapt (file out) the clamping bar to be firm at its wrong angle and he could have got a better battery for less cost had he let me order one for him. Don't panic but I'd look (and did) for someone local who can 'code' the battery for a beer token perhaps from the map (found it). Briskoda VCDS Owners Map (click me) Doubt or treble check any input as we had a knowledgeable poster on here leave that to an auto-electrician even though he had a VCDS and the auto-electrician enter 7Ah instead of 70Ah and the battery not surprisingly and computer programs started playing up within a year. By the time the start/stop , er, stops working because the battery state of charge is too low the battery has already gone lower than is best. A battery in a low state of charge can cause all sorts of unexpected issues even if the car starts and the lights seem bright enough and there are no warning lights or messages. Despite what some seem to think it's not against the law when required to fully charge the battery with an appropriate battery charger and maintainer to get better out of the battery and longer life, AGM or not. What many don't know is that summer heat of 30c and 40c isn't good for the battery but the results might not show up until the colder weather in autumn and winter so are disassociated. If we get that extreme heat again this summer when it's over I'll check the AGM battery on my wife's car and use a charger if required (the heat isn't the best to to charge the battery either). Good luck.

toot's picture clearly shows the principle but the angle of the non-dangle is different as on the Fabia MK3 is more curved. I looked at a 2020 'Owner's Manual' and that still had the same illustration as the one I put up. Must admit I don't think I've always used the slots and I bet my wife who normally fills the tank (before the major panic of the needle reaching the tip of the red section and panic warnings) doesn't either.

I and all others would always exclude me from being any type of expert in anything, ever, and most certainly computers and VCDS, which to what little I've seen of it looks a horrible legacy system still presented nastily to be exclusive for the more nerdy. But like the other "quality" 😄 German marques VW have been into over complicated programs (if more lately like other car manufacturers keeping the chips as cheap as, er, chips) for a long time, but not as long as Ford IIRC. Technical types can sometimes overlook the basics having their minds on the more sexy end of the spectrum, me being at the thick end of the spectrum would first (check the car battery is in a good state of charge) plug in the VCDS, do a record/report of error codes if any, if so just delete any error codes then drive the car see if the speed limiter sorts out and at the end of a reasonable journey or next day or when convenient plug the VCDS back in and do another health check see if any error codes have returned or new ones presented and go from there. VW seem like most other car manufacturers very reluctant to admit to any errors but you could ask at a Dealership if there's been any updates to your model or Recalls that it's missed out on. You can look up (admitted) Recalls here. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/services/recall-campaigns 'Stereo', maps and toys updates from here. - https://updateportal.skoda-auto.com/ If you find anything on the VCDS that stops the annoying slight clunking sound from under the front of the car p l e a s e let me know.

Personally I'd take the instant consumption figures with a pinch of salt, fine if using as a rough guide or pointer. Same for tankfill mpg especially if different journeys with different drivers and in different weather. Once you've checked the accuracy you could take the car's computer tankfill mpg figure as a comparison for future use allowing for variables, if you normally get about 45mpg and for no apparent reason it drops to say 35 (or whatever) then there's probably something you need to check or do. I've found before comparing with Australia on things like tyre pressures and mpg just brings up anomalies which could be in (and I've not fully checked so could be wrong or partly wrong) in the petrol, road surfaces, tyre materials, weather, same as with comparisons with the same cars over here there are still too many variables to get many very close matches on mpg (and then what is close). Some of the mpg figures I've seen on the Fabia same as my wife's I wonder how they're achieved and how accurate they are or realistic for others to copy in their lives. I think you always get less mpg from a petrol than a diesel as you drive it more than just being a passenger behind the steering wheel whether you realise it or not so as has been put you need to adjust your driving technique to shorten the gap a bit.

The VW take over was later, early 90s, I was told by the Skoda garage I don't think we used the term "Dealership" then for such a garage then, that the quality had dropped because they were taking in new cars so knew. That used to be a good thing about Skoda then their "Dealerships" were small and friendly places, certainly the one I went to and the other local ones were privately owned and not part of some massive group selling Skoda one year and Citroen the next. In case you didn't know in the mid-80s the comic know as The Sun (newspaper) ran a constant campaign of taking the ****, who knows how much other manufacturers who products were twice the price influenced this. Some of the criticism was valid as it would have been for other manufacturer's products but it led to owners and customer being more loyal and/or locked into the brand for trade-in replacements. I knew every joke from the sheep that read The Sun, some were very funny but more than once I had someone whisper in my ear that they'd owned one and they weren't that bad. I can't think the VW takeover would have necessary went down too well with the Skoda factory workers given the German army invading and taking over Czech at the start of WW2. My older neighbour said they wanted the Czech to make tanks/parts (I forget which) because they were better made than the German tanks. I don't know if this was the same for Skodas back then as the cars were imported by Skoda UK(?) or whatever it was called to Norfolk IIRC they put on UK wheels and tyres. I think they went out to sellers reasonably quickly but at some time some new cars were stored on grass and they'd be there so long that the grass grew under the car and possible transported moisture, when, who I forget but aerial photo would sometimes be shown on national news. I had a new 1986 130 5-speed Rapid and I can't say I got along with it well, some minor niggles I forget what but the 1300 engine wasn't as nippy as the 1200 120LS saloon I traded-in. I mostly changed to get the 5th gear because the 120 LS was a bit noisy in 4th, later in life I'd have made a few minor changes inexpensive changes to take the edge of and not worry about the times 5th was useful. I had a few cars later without 5th gear. I had a 1987 130 saloon and IIRC the rear seat back covers wore on that so whether at some point in the 80s they tried saving on materials I don't know, didn't worry me as you could get loose covers to fit over. I put some Goodyear Eagle tyres on the 130 saloon and they made the handling even better, on some local back roads I had a BMW 3 series and he put his foot down no doubt expecting to get respectable distance from the lower car in his rear views, I too fancied a drive so put my foot down but keeping a reasonable distance as at the time many BMW drivers weren't as good at driving as they thought they were and their model wasn't as quick as they thought it was. No speeding but I kept with him until we reached 30 town limit where I dropped back so that he would get through the traffic lights on green and I wouldn't. Great tyres but obviously wore quickly and I used the cars for work so when I changed the Eagles I went for a set of four more standard type tyres. The fitter advised me to take easy on the new set of tyres even after the run-in as though they were new they'd not grip like the worn Eagles which I expected, but not so much difference, just had to adjust to the change. In the past if you had any Porsche 911or Golf GTi owning friends or acquaintances the following was good to show them. 😁

Did you see HeavyMetalRich answer? If you put what year your Fabia is on your name plate or in a post I could (or even you could) look it up in the appropriate 'Owner's Manual' and post it here for future reference. Even Audi 80s came with an Owner's Manual, probably a lot easier to read than the Fabia's.