Dungadungadun

Part whatever it is now: Breaking tidbits edition Starting off with something completely unrelated: the cigarette lighter plug broke off my tyre pump. I try not to pull by the cable, so not entirely sure how I snapped it off (and in true me tradition, I forgot to take a ‘before’ photo – so enjoy this photo of the pump instead) Re-soldered the connectors back on, probably more stronger than they came out the factory now on to the boot light. So for a while now the boot light was on-and-off depending whenever it felt like, which is a little troublesome when at night as my boot becomes a lucky dip, and gets really exciting whenever I reach in and feel something wet. Annoyingly, it didn't look easily repairable without snapping the plastic or metal, despite having a standard W5W bulb inside, so I ordered some cheap knock off on eBay However it turned out that it wouldn’t fit I am amazed by how cheap knock off parts can consistently fail to fit properly no matter how simple of a part it is the good idea fairy came along and shown me that I could just tear off the metal cover and shove a regular bulb inside. The light hasn’t had issues so far so just gonna leave it without the cover until something happens And finally, one day I was wiping the windscreen and accidentality snapped off the ticket holder Ordered a new one, only costs a singular pound Removed the A pillar, crossed my fingers for the metal tabs not to snap the plastic, unscrewed the broken clip, then finally found out how to remove the speaker as the tabs aren't exactly designed for people with hands. Since the order for a tab took a bit to come in, had to drive around without the pillar, basically making my car a stripped out race car for the time being. Also decided to tidy up my dash cam cable while I was at it.

First of all, part 2 of the faulty DLR bulb socket Turned out the re-tensioning of the bulb socket didn’t work As a temporary measure, I shoved some tin foil to maintain contact, and it did work for what its worth. But in a desire to not have a fire waiting to happen in my car, I later replaced it with a factory fitting On a completely unrelated note My window switch had begun to act up, leading to fun situations where sometimes the window will open completely on a motorway when I try to close it, or some other weird dance before closing. Just popped it out, sprayed it with a bunch of contact cleaner, popped it back in and now it works fine. While I had the door part opened up, decided to check out why my right side speaker wasn't working I’ll be honest, I’ve got a hearing issue meaning sometimes I can only clearly hear from my right ear. The fact the music sounded like it came from another room drove me mad. It seems that the factory just ‘forgot’ to install the speaker. (Or that the previous owner somehow removed it and never bothered to replace it) So I installed a new speaker and it works pretty well, if you could hear any of it in the video. Additional apologies for audio quality, and any distress it may of caused Also installing with nuts and bolts while only being able to reach one side made this an interesting challenge.

It seems my images have broken (again). Hopefully a new image host will work better this time. I have a confession to make: I was lying when I photographed the wheels I had, the centre caps were merely stick-ons that were there for the pics, when I drove I just use the tatty old caps that came with the wheels. Now I have made up for this deceit and created a more permanent solution, by stripping the worn old caps, and used an epoxy to give a strong bond to the stick on caps. I would of taken pictures of the process, but somehow the epoxy combined with the protective plastic managed to attract every cat and dog hair within the midlands region. I also got around to fitting some Wind Deflectors I’ll be honest, I am still on the fence whether I like them or not I’ll wait until summer and see if the car becomes a self-propelled greenhouse and cast judgement then. On the other hand, I believe I have now completed my list of things I wanted to get done to the car. ignore the tow bar and boot mat, don't need them as much now. Finally I’ve been facing DRL issues for a bit where one bulb randomly went out time to time. It turned out the bulb was held in loose and the potholes I’ve driven over managed to wriggle it off the contacts. Screwdriver to tension the contacts solved the issue. More importantly it meant I did not have to admit to a fault of my own wiring and my pride remains intact. Also the fog light cluster retention clip snapped somehow. So the cluster held in with zip ties for the time being.

Yes, I'll confess, I have been neglecting this page. Hell, all the embeds have gotten bored of waiting and left. I hope this post will make up for the delay. Part 1: 100,000 miles anniversary Part 2: Back boot cubby thing Part 3: I got a VCDS cable Part 4: The futility of cleaning. Part 5: The big one: Finally managed to get some vrs alloys Part 6: Extra shenanigans

Evening everyone Been looking online at wind deflectors, and found a set from Team HEKO for around £47 and found a set of Edge Visors for £25 (Cheapest on market afaik). Team HEKO looks to be the de facto choice of deflector on briskoda, but costs almost twice as much as Edge Visors, which I'm not aware of anyone using here. Is there any reason to avoid edge visors? does Team HEKO provide twice the wind deflection experience? or would I be paying for the label?

Update: Currently looking for that brick.

Virtually since I've driven this car, I had a "Apeman C420D" dashcam, its some generic cam; You look on amazon and there's thousands of identical cameras under different brands. I'll be blunt, it's a pain in the backside to use, and a new problem decided to rear its head that requires a firmware update. However who written the instruction manual may not of had English as a first language, and I wish to share this with you all. Interesting how 'TF Card' first search result was "What is a TF Card". In temu. Its just an outdated SD card. They were more than happy to help my on my first call, second time they were a little disgruntled. But I don't want to be waited. I feel threatened. If this fails again, yes I will. Via a brick. Through the head office windows. Now to keep on topic. Don't buy it, there are matching ones that sell for a 1/3 of the price and its wee bit rubbish for anything more than recording oddities of the road.

So recently I got my hands on some trim tools They’re cheap, nasty but got everything I needed done. First thing to go after: the hole in my door Since I first bought this car, it always had a hole where the mirror control blank belonged, and for the longest time I struggled trying to find a replacement part, all scrappers sold the entire door frame along with and the only spare parts store selling was selling it for 0.77c. With an import from Czech Republic for €15. This admittedly was a little bit off putting for a small hole in the door; however someone mentioned that it could just simply of fell into the door, so decided to take a bet and have a look. Apologies for lack of photos, pretty difficult to do while holding a door card. It turned out that blank was just lying within the door all along, and luckily no tabs cracked in the process. The tab itself was somehow undamaged too, just needed a little scrub and slotted back in. I will mention I didn't hear a rattle or anything else that indicated that the blank was in there. Quite nice to have the interior complete for once. While I still have mcguffin removers, decided to take a go at the sunglasses retrofit Small piece of advice for anyone wanting to do the same, rather than just poking for the tabs from outside and pulling down, I found it much more easier to remove the inside lights, reach in and push on a tab, while simultaneously pulling down. Also gave a shot at trying to solve my boot open light problem too by fiddling around with the boot latch I took it out, couldn’t replicate the issue, shoved it full of WD40 and contact cleaner for good measure, saw the light work fine so I have no clue what happened, but now it works so I wont question it. And finally, while I had the boot cracked open, decided to take a shot at restoring my plate screws Unfortunately it seems I’ve developed an allergy to before photos, so here’s an assortment of things which came out while removing the screws. Also you could see old photos of my plate too. All but one went generally fine, front plate screws were the easiest, no resistance and came clean off. The rear plates needed bit of convincing to come off, one eventually surrendered. The other however... In the end I had to rip out the tab and replace it with plastic plate holders Its quite nice to no longer have rusty screws right in front of my car, but the plates are starting to separate the paper and acrylic layers and possibly have their days numbered

This update was long overdue, but hey I had to wing most of this. First a little piece of advice that I thought of in a dream, and not accidentality did to myself at all: if you are planning to get sick for over a fortnight and have a car with a dodgy battery that can barley last that, do not store your tools in the boot behind an electronically controlled boot lid, saving yourself from having to climb from the front drivers seat to the boot. Especially in an estate. No I will not expand on this any further. But first real story: The Washening For the first time in a while, good weather came around and I wanted to give my carpet cleaner a try on me seats and carpets. The car does feel fresher with a do-over. The befores: The Afters: extra stuff Dungadungadungadungadungan’s foglight shenanigans part 2 Once again, going into ridiculous details for anyone wanting to DIY the foglights in themselves. First to get out of the way is the ordering of components and soldering: Next up will be the installing of the wiring (Or consider this Part 2 of Part 2 of Part 2...) Part 3: Wiring logic now finally, after a long time of arse-sitting, wiring magic and guesswork, I have my lights fully working For future changes, I might either try to rewire the fog light switch to be like the typical VAG fog switch or attempt to have an indicator flash for the DRL too, but I really don’t like the idea of playing with the VCU. Also may still write a better detailed guide on wiring if the need be, but I won’t be surprised if there is some obviously better ways to do or improve this

Mild update no. 1: Monte finally managed to get his hands on my car, and had a fiddle around with VCDS and now the steering setting has been changed from the stock steering weight to a more “heavier” setting. Quite like the weighty steering. Lack photos because its hard to visualise weight without a newton meter I really should grab an OBD2 adapter of my own. Mild update no 2: Also decided to give a quick clean of the gear stick, looked bit crusty. Simple go over with a brush did the trick. Now the big update I have finally gotten around to installing my fog lamps Bulbs are just for show for now, hopefully I can get them fully working soon! The hard part of this entire ordeal was getting the old blanks out, preferably without breaking them (nor my bumper). Here is the story of trying to remove it: In the end, I finally got out the blank using this method (I will go into stupid level detail, as I would of appreciated that myself): For being entirely held in by tabs barley a millimetre thick, they are some adamant buggers (like as if VAG didn’t want people just easily retrofitting lamps from scrapped skodas for a fraction of the price at dealership, what a surprise!) Also I might make an actual guide about this later, but would like to set up the wiring first. As of course it wont be me solving anything without creating 3 more issues. Mainly now I have to sort a wiring system for the lights. Really hoping that I can grab a front fog light switch and make it just work But now with the DLRs, it seems much harder to find the switch for that so I feel like experimenting. Considering on making this to wire up them up, though it needs to be remade to physically work. If you understood that first try, then congratulations. On the other hand, in trying to free the trapped bulb, now a piece of the cluster has snapped off, and I’ve lost it so I cant glue it back on. I have given a test drive and ragged around a little and the bulb hasn’t fallen out so I’ll just pretend everything’s fine. Perhaps put some blutack in if it somehow slips out. Also now I have two spare blanks for no apparent reason. Think I’ll leave them in the attic and see if I can cultivate two new fabias.

Also forgot to add responses Listen here you little... Glad you liked it

Second update: Even more blander edition The TDI badge looked little tatty, so decided to go over with a permanent marker At a glance, it looks pretty good I'd say but a good idea fairy beaten me to painting this and it looks little dodgy close up so I might just debadge it later. Now the most dramatic thing to occur: A bulb had blown. Having a close look, it was the sidelight that blew, so just a simple pull in and out BUT THEN, IT GOT WORSE! A weather cap fell off. So I bought a new one, just a fiver for one off a ford. So a month later and nothing I intended to do has been done? Yes. But not entirely, as I have fog lamps lying around This one only needs a buff to look good as new But this one has a bulb trapped inside, I think I'll just have to cut it out somehow (Anyways, how the hell did someone get that in there in the first place?) Plus I am still searching for the DRL switch, wiring and electrics or DIY my own.

About a year ago, I was looking for my first car and I found this: A Skoda Fabia estate, 1.4L TDI, not too bad for a first car. So I called up the dealer to get a reservation after months of searching for a car and finally have my first car. Anyways, the dealer later rang up and said his wife already sold it. So I got this instead: Another Skoda Fabia estate, same colour even, but with an extra cylinder, 1.6L and 105 horses. But I did loose my climate control and fog lamps :( Up to now, its been a fine and dandy motor, never had a moment when it couldn't do what I want, but I'll be honest, this car is not a special edition and I'm not planning to do too much to it outside for the sake of convenience, but hey, why not record what I do end up doing? Things I currently done: Get a spare wheel. Discover the spare wheel was only 14" and couldn't fit the front brakes Get a replacement spare wheel at 15" with legal tread Have an inadvertent collection of car jacks Vacuum up the birds nest that was hiding in my engine Hardwire install of my dashcam, I wont admit how many times that flatten my battery. And turn it into a camper to prove that estates are the superior automotive. Few things I plan to be done: Fix my boot open light Install fog lamps (just need wiring, switches and to unjam a stuck bulb) Find a boot floor mat Install a towbar (real exciting) Grab some mk1 VRS alloys, will admit the current alloys are too small for the brakes NOT install a whiteline RARB... @DieselMonte

Your car is looking good in the pic, but check out that blue beauty :^)