Metalspacedust

Hi Fabia Mk3 1197cc Petrol. First registered March 2016. I have owned since 2017. Only done 32,000 miles. But now seven years old. Not had a timing belt change. Serviced by Skoda main dealer up until last year and they never mentioned replacing it. Should I have it done even though low mileage? Should anything else be replaced at the same time? I assume I will have to sell a Kidney if I take it to a main dealer to get it done? 🙂

Fuel Leak Skoda Fabia 6 years old 30,000 miles on the clock Started car and went about a mile home. Really bad smell of petrol in the car. Warning light came on. Petrol dripping from the engine onto the floor, AA got my car to a local garage. They diagnosed a leak from injector 3. It was really hard to see where the petrol was coming from. Garage found a bolt on the injector rail had sheared and injector 3 was leaking petrol. Now need new injector seals and four new bolts. £216 fitted which sounds reasonable considering the work involved. They said it's the second car they have seen with this fault. Google shows I am not alone. Surely this has to be a product recall? I know I was lucky I only went a mile with a bolt sheared off. If I had carried on driving more bolts could have sheared and more injectors started leaking. This has to be a potential fire hazard. Is it as some people have said a fault at the factory. Not tightening bolts to the correct torque? Or a design fault. I am assuming with a decent repair job I should have no more issues in the future. It's certainly destroyed all my confidence in Skoda as a brand.