PastyBoy

Is there still demand for a 2017 calendar? I've not been around here much this year but am aware I'd have normally started the process by now. Is there a need? Would people still buy copies and thus shall i get started or are people not that bother this time around?

Indeed i do. Still with us after another 14k miles since i last updated the thread; but the thread says it all really. With the lack of a similar engined mk2 Fabia it was the logical choice after my mk1 VRS was written off. It's done everything I expect of it admirably well. It returns decent economy with purposeful performance, economy down but performance up since the tuining box. It's a nice place to be on a journey; and to my eye is the best looking of this gen Ibiza bar the Cupra & Bocanegra. That said it isn't that refined inside with a lot of road noise being transmitted into the cabin, although i have run winter tyres all yeasr. The suspension is pretty crashy being on par with the lowered, stiffened, rolling-on-18s of the wife's A3 S-Line, The radio is a bit all over the place - reception seems poor and the ergonomics of the menus is a bit all over the place Although I've plugged my ipod in to the standard aux in socket, switched it to AUX IN mode and left well alone. Mechanically I've not had a single issue. It's had a minor and major service including cambelt and needed nothing else. As with most VAG cars the geometry seems pretty fickle as I've had it tracked 3 times and full alignment once and dead ahead is still a few degrees off centre on the steering wheel. That said I hit a a pot hole which was deep enough to bend the alloy earlier in the year, and whilst the garage found nothing when it was serviced i'm pretty sure there may a slight underlying suspension issue, so maybe i can't lay the blame on the car there. Only real problem I find is it's just not that exciting. I always feel it's the perfect second car. Something that commutes well, gives decent economy and is just the right side of quick be be enjoyable everyday, but you'd be happy in the knowledge there's something with a bit more fire in it's belly waiting for the weekend to roll around.

Sorry all in case you can't tell the "use Briskoda as an excuse to not work my lunch" hasn't gone all that well. That said uptake hasn't been anywhere near what i was expecting but I'll still see if i can sort you all out a discount. Will be in touch via PM shortly

Ideally you'll want a donor Fabia/Ibiza/Polo seat as your removed seats will be worth a load more complete than if you steal the metalwork from underneath Once you have the seat out you need to take all the plastic trim off (normally screwed on underneath), and remove he back rest The foam and material is then held on by tension using a plastic bead on the edge of the material secured under the metal work. Ease the bead out and the whole lot will lift off leaving you with just the metal work You can then put the Octavia foam on the Fabia metalwork and then, screw the octavia backrest to the fabia metalwork and then put the plastic trim back on

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there was a set of wheel on a mk2 Fabia estate that had dark spokes and silver outer

I'm enjoying my 2010 FR diesel. It was the logical choice a couple of years back when my mk1 Fabia VRS got written off, and there wasn't a powerful TDI mk2 Fabia. I've not clicked with it as well as i did with said VRS but that might be down to considerably less modifying and making it "my own". It does everything I need it to do though, it's a relatively nice place to be on a journey, the CR engine is great (and the dtuk box gives it some teeth), the economy is brilliant, and (as far as i can see) it's the best looking of all latest gen ibizas (which got softened after 2010) I have to agree with most of the negatives brought up though. The road noise is pretty bad, but that may be the fault of my winter tyres on summer roads. The suspension does seem unforgiveably harsh. I wouldn't say it's overly hard but it doesn't seem to manage very anything well. The wife's A3 S-line with it's lower, harder suspension, 18" wheels, and rubber band tyres rides equally badly. A test drive in a Renault Megane sport with it's hardest available "Cup" suspension felt loads better than either of them - but I guess you get what you pay for. The stereo is indeed all over the place, i think it got improved on later models but the interface in obstructive is the least and down right confusing at times. I've plugged by ipod in, stuck it in AUX mode and have left it alone for 2 years! That said bruv it does go proper loud boooiiii! The arse has fallen out of the prices, but that is a Seat soft point i think. £8500 purchase price 2 and half years and 20,000 miles ago is now more like £4000 to trade in.

Not my finest work but you get the idea

Yodel employ "own vehicle "couriers"" as well as owner drivers of their own fleet of vans. Essentially take whatever vehicle you own, pick up parcels, drive it to drop them off, get paid. I'd imagine it's one of these guys you had deliver to you. https://yodelcareers.co.uk/driver-jobs/couriers/ There's one around our estate in a similarly beat up mid-90s red merc van, dumps it on the pavement or in the way to sling a parcel out to a house then splutters off again

Thanks All Lack of Skoda, lack of car modifying, and lack of time does not a Briskoda member forum make. However i'm trying to force myself to not work through my lunch hour so what better way to spend that hour than browsing through here again. Those of you who are after badges just start a list once you decided and we'll see where it goes

After a Briskoa hiatus I am back as are my custom badge making abilities During my time away the requests have stacked up so makes sense to buk them all together and let everyone benefit from the reduction in price. Running in the same format as all the previous Group Buys from yesteryear the badges are a flexible self-adhesive backed vinyl printed with the chosen design and finished with a clear resin dome to give a pronounced finish and protection and durability. They work equally well stuck over the OEM badge or in place of them. They can also be shrunk down and used as alloy wheel or steering wheel centres too. Pretty much anything goes - solid flat colours to a coloured vinyl are the best finish but full colour designs can be printed to white vinyl. The choice really is yours however a few for inspiration (and if you want any of these designs try to quote what i call them and your colour choice) Retro Retro in Lime Green & Black Autobot Steering whel centre also in lime and black Skoda Motosport Custom Full colour designs (I'd need you to supply "print ready" artwork for something this complex!) OEM Badge minus the green My version of the new latest badge Which can be done in whatever colour/colours one fancies old VRS logo on black background used on alloy centres Here is a link to the photobucket album where i have dumped most badge artworks and images feel free to browse and let it guide your thoughts the images should be named just try to use that as what you put on the list PastyBadge Design Gallery However don't feel limited by this collection, and not everything i have produced is in there. Everything is produced to order so you can be unique or have a badge shown in a different colour combo if required. If you're interested start a list in the normal Group Buy fashion along with the sizing you want. Pasty Boy - Retro - Silver on Black - 80mm x2 I've done most cars now but it is your responsibility to make sure you request the correct sizing! As a very rough guide off the top of my head: Fabia & Octy mk1 - 80mm bonnet and boot - 55mm alloy centres Fabia & Octy mk2 - 80mm boot & 88mm bonnet - 55mm alloy centres Superb mk1 - 88mm bonnet & 92mm boot Superb mk2 - 90mm bonnet and boot If in doubt.... get a ruler out!! As a guide larger badges are about £10-12 and the alloy centres around £6-7 when produced on their own but normally come down to around £6.50 and £4 respectively. Things like extra colours in the design, larger size, international shipping add to the cost but once the quantity is up to a sizeable amount I will discuss with the printer and sort out pricing and everyone will then get a PM to confirm their requirements, the costs there of, delivery details and payment details. Once the quantity gets up to enough to warrant the maximum discount (generally around 100 badges) I shall contact everyone via PM to confirm design, sizing and cost; and to request payment. Once all payments are in I shall hit the button! Generally these things take a month to go down and then a couple of weeks to be produced and posted Any questions ask away PastyBoy

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5 of these for me and my mates the rest goes on race fees on a purely personal note i'd love a Tuscan but feae 1) it's breakdown (a lot) 2) when it was actually running it's performance would outweight my abilities and kill me (quickly) I'd actually struggle to spend the money. I don't really enjoy driving that fast on the road. there's always too many what if's and other numpty's to worry about. so my money'd go on something nice to tow with and drive daily (Range Rover?), a trailer, a reasonable race car, and all the associated maintence and fees. or probably actually just pay Ginetta to do it all for me and then you get a road legal G40 too http://ginetta.com/racing.php?championship=grdc&tab=info

Neither did she At least on TWD all the people you have to learn are all in one group and in one place. GoT was even worse. 20 "main" characters all in differnet places interacting with different people for different reasons to acheive differnet things, most of whom get 2 minutes per episode as it jumps about all over the place. I get that it works in chapters of a book but it makes for hard wathcing TV That said i can't wait for it to come back in a few weeks time. Here's hoping someone leaks a load of episodes again!

Enjoyed the latest episode which i watched last night Amazing how things come back around to haunt them and how BAM things go from fine to very much not fine in an instant. And if anyone has ever wondered "how come the zombie 'virus' never effects other living things just humans?" the answer may be in this (truly woeful looking) movie https://youtu.be/AZYh1Ts_mTE

Just bumping this back up again as the yearn is still there for something else if someone fancies a purchase. Also note price drop Nothing has really changed in the past 10 months or so. Mileage is now up to 65000 and i've had to have a pot holed alloy re-rounded. Other than that it's been plain sailing. Car performs admirably on the daily commute and even better (and by better i mean more efficiently) when pressed into service on longer runs. Experiments with and without the tuning box and with differnet box settings are always varied and the box can be included for another £250 or i'll take it off Let me know

Me too..... now i know there's a potential car to drive/share although i am sorely tempted to sell the Ibiza and use this for both weekends competing and adaily drive http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HONDA-CIVIC-TYPE-R-Track-car-Race-Car-poss-Teqiwa-Civic-Cup-VTEC-EP3-/262313674741?hash=item3d131d07f5:g:4l8AAOSwDuJWuLwI £7k as it stands or an extra £500 to finish the race prep and put in the extinguisher, harness and cut offs.... off to ebay search for racing suits and helmets

Richard i hate you because i'm insanely jealous well done

you'll have to bring the diesel instead :P I'll see. The winters on the front of the Ibiza might just about be dead by mid May so coul dbe a fitted send off for them. Alternatively if anyone has a spare set of rims... i'll see nearer the time

Rich any chance of the Yeti RS towing something up for me to drive?

Dario Franchitti-chitty bang bang this game makes me smile so much! French Former F1 driver and a medical condition which causes brittle bones?

yeah or this a guy at work bought with his mate when they were both batchelors, one has now grown up and got a girlfriend moved out to live with her. my colleague has thus bought him out and got a lodger (another mat) in to cover the part of the mortgage his mate was paying. nothing helps with affordability like having someone else pay half the bills!!

We faced a similar scenario a few years back and had it not been for the fact me and the girlfriend (now wife) wer eliving togethe and both contributing I think i'd rent for the rest of my days. Wouldn't have been a problem apart from half a dozen of my colleagues all got turfed out of the properties and forced to hurriedly move into whatever was available when the landlords decided to sell up. We looked at buying in Cheltenham (where we were renting) but we could only afford a step backwards (1 bed rather than 2 no garden etc) so looked to new builds in a development in Gloucester (but still close to Cheltenham). Me and the wife bought a new build on a Frist Time Buyer part equity government scheme and have a 3 and a half bed terrace we can expand a family into with having to worry. Missing out the first couple of steps on the property ladder has treated us well and we have haven't got a bad word to say about the government scheme. £200k puchase price We put up the deposit, and the house builder matched it as did the government. That money was "lent" to us free for 5 years The plan being to save up as hard as possible for those 5 years, then pay off as much as possible in cash and add the rest to the mortgage. Hasn't quite worked out like that so we've taken an extra coupel of years on the "loan" paying a nominal fee for the privilege (almost exactly an extra monthly mortgage payment) That payment is also a lot less than the extra interest we'd pay on the bigger mortgage. Yes we only fully own a certain percentage of the property (78% if memory serves me correctly) but equally we also only have a percentage of the mortgage. Meaning we can get a better rate as the mortgage is against a lower percentage of the total house price than if we'd bought the whole thing. We're also free to sell up when we want but obviously we only get a percentage of the money back. I honestly don't know how long it would have taken us to get to where we are now without the help from the scheme

Ron Dennissan Micra Young Dutch F1 driver & a flightless bird?

Sabine Schmidt's a knockout? Pretty sure that's wrong but i'm sat at my desk wetting myself