MoggyTech
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Oh darn, not the best of days then. Ah well, no doubt you might get another one in the future. All the best.
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I just swapped from a Golf GTi Turbo to a Fabia VRS and it went up £30?!? Haha
I went from 1.4 75BHP Polo to VRS and my insurance went down £70, go figure
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Very good dealer both sales and service.
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It's a well known fact that insurance companies HATE to ensure modified cars. Their view is that if you take a car that is already fairly fast, and have it tuned, you want to go faster, and so in their eyes are even more likely to have an accident.
I understand why younger drivers like to have their cars modified (cool factor, street cred etc) but it does cost a bundle on top of what will never be cheap insurance in the first place.
To give you an idea, of just how much you are paying, I got insurance for a standard VRS for £135, plus £14 to have protected NCB, and another £26 for courtesy car option.
An insurance company has no idea as to the quality of a particular drivers skills (or lack of). So they all have a basic criteria of risk assessment.
Having a clean license helps, as does holding an advanced drivers certificate, especially Police driving standards. Hope this helps.
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Have a garage plug an FCR into the OBD2 data port. Likely to be a speed sensor fault, probably the one for the speedo.
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IIRC = If I Remember Correctly. I always care, but at my age memory comes with a disclaimer
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Costs about £330 IIRC. It's done as a kit with new tensioners, idler rollers and water pump.
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Could be the PCB surface mounted LED has blown. Can be replaced but it's a dash out job.
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No just the alternator and the battery as far as I'm aware. The receipt I got from Skoda just mentioned the alternator.
I've reverted back to the original battery as Skoda said the Halford's battery was "too powerful" (!?!).
Battery too powerful, what a load of nuts. Steering position sensor bad connection or intermittent.
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Clean License 9 Years NCB £135
Standard VRS no Mods. -
If you look for a perfect car with no problems on any of the forums, you will end up with a push-bike. People now expect top quality for very little money, and expect all cars to be perfect, and there is no such animal. Skodas are among the best cars available for the price. The VRS in particular is a very clever car. Stunning performance with decent MPG, or stunning MPG if you only hit the loud pedal when really needed. The words cake and eat it spring to mind.
Yes there are some problems, but some of these will be due to power increase modifications putting extra strain on the power-train and subframe flexing. Given the amount of electronics crammed into modern cars, I'm amazed they even run at all
The best cars these days are probably the Lexus, and top end Toyota models, but they ain't cheap, and you can still get a duff one.
Last night I was at a roundabout waiting for lights to change to get onto the M8 motorway, sitting there at 2:00am in the inside lane. An audi TT pulls up in the outside lane, and the guy is reving the engine waiting for the lights to change. Off he goes, I launch the VRS and a second later he is staring in disbelief as he gets left for dead. The cost.......Priceless
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VRS 9/10
Dealer 10/10
Skoda UK 9/10
Just gald you didn't ask about VW Dealers -10 would have been the score
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If the light comes on even for a few seconds there will be fault codes stored in the ECU. Have a garage plug in an OBD2 fault code reader and retrieve the code(s). This is the only way to get a rough idea as to the faulty component(s).
Tip: You cab buy an OBD" FCR for £39 from Gendan Online.
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WHS^^^ rims look weird, like the tyre width size is too small :thumbdwn:
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The line the dealer will probably take is, as the cam belt and water pump are not faulty, they are under no obligation to replace them free of charge.
However, they should be willing to replace them for the price of the parts only, since the labour will not factor into it. So rather than paying £300 to have this done at 60,000 miles (or 4 years), I would pay for the belt and water pump, and effectively save on the labour costs.
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Best stuff for cleaning seat belt webbing is spray Foam Cleaner from Maplin or CPC. A four quid can will last for ages. Good on leather as well.
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Thanks for the welcome. Car number is 388.
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Just picked up my Fabia VRS Limited Edition today (traded in a 2005 Polo Mk7). Anyway, what a machine, glad I've got a Road Angel
Other car is a Morris 1000 Traveller (1969) so just a wee bit slower than the VRS.
Cheers
weird beep... Speedo goes mad.
in Skoda Fabia Mk I (1999-2007)
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No, all you would get is a slight speedo error due to different rolling circumference. As the fault happened while stopped at lights, it's definitely a sensor fault. A fault code reader should give you a better idea of the problem.