DriveMeBananas

The car is used for driving instruction, I had dual controls fitted. There is are two cables which run behind the console between the passenger footwell and the driver footwell, one of these cables squeezed the air conditioning drain pipe which cause water to pour out of the top of the AC unit into the passenger footwell via the cabin air filter housing. This caused the passenger footwell to fill with water over 2 years. I put the car into have work carried out under the warranty. One of the jobs was to look into the water ingress problem, I wrote on the job card no work to be carried out not covered by warranty. I pointed the dealer in the direction of the AC system being the problem. Rather than sticking a bore scope up the AC drain hose they competely removed the interior from the car, seats, trims, carpets, insulation the lot. They then phoned me up and told me that I had to pay them £1500 or I could have the car back with no interior. I contacted Skoda UK customer care they told me it was my own fault, not covered by warranty, tough **** pay up. Then last week the dual mass flywheel and clutch failed at 38,000 miles, I did not even bother speaking to Skoda about that. If they would not help with a water leak caused by their crap drain design I doubt they would pay for a clutch for a driving school car. lmao Anyway I am paying £500 a month car finance for a heap of crap that now doesnt even let me use the camera which is needed to pass the trailer hitching exercise during the trailer driving test. So I have now bought a £20 camera system from Ebay in place of the £2000 factory fitted reversing camera and columbus head unit.

I have a high spec yeti, the parking sensors die when it rains. Water seems to get into one of the sensors and it kills the entire system. I have a reversing camera, the camera is killed with the sensors. Is there a way to code out the parking sensors and keep the camera, I can live without the sensors, but need the camera. The car is 2 years old and is under warranty but I am sick of the dealer who shafted me for £1500 last month and have been unable to fix this issue twice. I have VCDS if it can be used to turn the sensors off?

Dealer were unable or unwilling to resolve this problem properly, so the car doesnt actually do what I expected it to do. However they have fitted a switch (onto the cover of the fuse box :wonder: which is going to make accessing the fuse box and connecting the fault code reader interesting) which turns off the parking sensors altogether, so I can simply turn them off. So Skoda get 1 out of 10 from me for customer satisfaction.

I sent the car back and they changed the electrics, they fitted a 13 pin socket without telling me (thanks for that) I only found out when I tried to attach the trailer which still has a 7 pin plug on it! Anyway the parking sensor is still going mental with the trailer attached. Didn't make any difference at all. There has got to be a solution to this problem?

I never understand why people ask insurance companies about vehicle and driving licence laws. Since when are insurance brokers experts on this subject? If you phone up an insurance company and ask them to insure a 3 axle double decker coach as a motorhome, and by the way is it ok if I drive it on my car licence, they will say yes no problem. They don't know or care, they take your money and send out the policy documents, if you read them it will state that you must hold a licence to drive the vehicle. You actually need a category C rigid lorry licence to drive such a vehicle, but there are plenty of people out there who asked their insurance company and are driving around with a car licence, just waiting to be pulled by VOSA or the Police, who will find they are neither entitled to drive or insured to drive such a vehicle. You can fit a tow bar to the vRS that is not a problem, but the minute you attach anything to it you are immediately overloading the vehicle, exceeding its towing capacity and this means you are not insured.

The towing capacity of the mark 1 fabia vrs is 0KG, if you hitch a trailer onto it you immediately exceed the towing capacity, for some reason the vrs was never type rated for towing. There is no reason why it couldnt tow 1200KG like my new car is it is the same chassis and engine. I have seen a few vrs with tow bars, the owners are either ignorant of the law or don't care about being prosecuted.

Try lifting clutch in neutral and then pressing it again, I found the gears sticky sometimes in my vRS and this seemed to sort it.

I recently replaced my fabia vRS with a Fabia 3 1.9TDI in order to teach towing legally. The car comes with reverse parking sensors which I don't need but they are on the car anyway. Is there any way of disabling the reverse sensors when towing a trailer, I spend a lot of time teaching reversing and the constant tone from the sensors is off puting.

Other thing to check, you probably never move your seat about, but the mechanic may have moved it. I find that my learners have trouble braking sympathetically if they are slightly too close to the pedals. Just one click too far forward and I am getting whiplash at every junction.

Legally you are only allowed to have ONE driving licence. If you apply for a replacement licence you have to surrender your old one. The new licence comes in 2 parts, the photocard and the counterpart, both are supposed to be kept together and presented when required. Neither part is a licence on its own. The photocard and counter part have an issue number on them, I have had people present their licence to me only to find that they have different issue numbers so they have duplicate licences (which is illegal).

If you have manual windows in the back check they are fully shut, they tend to slip down with the vibration of driving. Well both my fabias do. Its not a huge amount of movement, but over time if you don't use the windows regularly they do drop down a little bit.

Ordered a fabia in november 2009. Was told delivery late January. Then 11th feb, Now they are saying into March? What is going on, has the factory run out of baking soda? Did the flood get into the flour bags? At this rate the new vRS will be out, maybe they are hanging off so I will up grade?

Could a fabia vRS 6 speed gear box be fitted to a 1.9 TDI 105bhp in a new fabia 3?

I am having to sell my vRS as it is illegal to tow with it. I teach people to tow trailers, so I cannot roll up at the VOSA test centre for a driving test in a car which cannot tow.

Placed an order on 20/11/09 for a new fabia 3 I understand the factory was shut for a while and there has been some "weather" but it almost 2 months and I still havent even been given a prelimary delivery date or any information at all as to the state of affairs. I used to work at sea navigating the ships which carry these new cars so I know that each car has a bar code on the windscreen so it is possible to precisely locate each vehicle. To be honest I don't care if it is sat on a dock yard in Emden waiting for a ship, I would just like to know where the car is? Then I would have a rough idea of when it is likely to appear? I don't mind waiting, it is just frustrating that there is no communication from the dealer to keep me informed.