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Your enquiry would be best posted here https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/28-skoda-octavia-mk2-2004-2013/

Promark747 The Skoda part number for a Fabia Mk 4's rear mud-flaps appears to be 6VE075101 and this ebay advert refers https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296787006177 I've copied below the fitting instructions pictures provided on the advert. The quality ain't great, but the pictures do suggest that (as one might expect) the uppermost hole in the mud-flap should have a fixing screw in it. Besides the two mud-flaps, the 6VE075101 'kit' includes two clips and two 'fixings'. It appears from the instructions that (for each mud-flap) the car's original two screws are used in the flap's uppermost and next-downwards holes, while the two extra 'fixings' in the kit are used with the clips that attach to the top of the flap's lower section. 'Genuine' Skoda mud-flaps are designed so that no extra drilling of the car's bodywork is required. Consequently, directly beneath the (empty) uppermost hole in your Fabia's rear mud-flaps, there ought to be a matching fixing screw (or a hole!!!) in the car's wheel-arch.

1970dazzler If you are desperate to replace your Fabia's horn, you might try removing the front-left fog-light (I think all UK-specification 2022 Fabia Colour Edition models had fog-lights as standard) and see whether that would allow sufficient access. If not, you'd probably need to replace the front bumper.

My 2024 Fabia SE L DSG's horn is decidedly 'peepy' when heard from the driver's seat, but it is a lot louder when heard from outside the car. There has been the occasional complaint relating to Fabia MK 3 horns (example here) but (so far) you are the first to complain about Mk 4 horns. Fabia Mk 3 horns were said to be located in the car's left front corner (which makes sense for a UK specification vehicle) so I'd expect the Mk 4 horn also to be there. If you lift your car's bonnet and get someone to sound the horn, it should not be difficult to detect (roughly) where the horn is. There's an awful lot of 'stuff' in a Fabia Mk 4's engine compartment and (assuming my car's horn is where I expect it is!!) I was unable to spot it from above, nor from the front of the car. The Mk3's horn was said to be difficult to access and it's probable that reaching a Mk 4's horn in order to replace it would be even more challenging and require even more disassembly. A BRISKODA forum member may be able to give you advice based on practical experience, or you could ask a technician at a friendly Skoda dealership what would be involved in replacing a Mk 4's horn.

I have Falken Ziex ZE310 Ecorun 195/55 R15 85V tyres on all 4 wheels of my 2009 Skoda Roomster and, when one of the tyres needed to be replaced quite recently following a puncture, the cost (including provision, fitting and balancing at a local garage) was around £70. My 2024 Fabia SE L DSG has (factory-fitted) Goodyear 195/55 R16 91V XL tyres and I've seen Falken Ziex ZE310 Ecorun tyres with that specification advertised online for around £70 (tyre only). I've no complaints about the performance of the Falken tyres fitted to my Roomster and I would have no hesitation replacing my Fabia's Goodyear tyres with the Falken equivalents. (You haven't said what size wheels/tyres your 2022 Fabia Colour Edition has, nor whether the £95 price is 'tyre only' or includes fitting/balancing, so I can't comment on whether that's good value or not.)

A comment on the simultaneously opening or closing of all the car's windows feature (called "convenience" window operation by Skoda). This is set via the infotainment system menu as described on the link below (the video relates to a Skoda Superb, but the procedure is similar for a Fabia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwL9bo4HkA8 There have been reports that the windows can open spontaneously, either resulting from an electrical glitch or from the key-fob button being accidentally pressed. So, if you have no particular use for the feature, it might be wise to turn it off. The video also shows the Central locking/Door unlocking setting on the display. I THINK the factory setting on a brand-new Fabia is likely to be Driver's door only, which can be disconcerting when you unlock the car and the passengers find they can't get in!

I've just experimented with the windows of my 2024 Fabia Mk 4 SE L DSG car. They operate EXACTLY how described in the digital Owner's Manual (that I provided the relevant extract from in my last posting) and they definitely do not "rocket up and down". In fact, their operation is little different from that of my 2009 Skoda Roomster. The printed Owner's Manual for my previous car (a 2021 Hyundai i20 MHEV) was 648 pages long with a pitiful index and excluded guidance on the car's infotainment system that was only held online. My Fabia Mk 4's printed Owner's Manual has 164 pages and a pretty good index, but - as explained on the Manual's Page 5 - "only contains the most important information regarding vehicle operation and maintenance, and only some technical parameters". Where the electrically-operated windows are concerned, (as I said above) the printed Manual advises that precise details of their Operation and Settings can only be found in the digital version of the Owner's Manual. (The digital version is also available via my Fabia's infotainment system.) My first mobile phone was a simple Nokia 'flip' design that could just (about) make/receive phone calls and text. Nowadays, people demand that even the most basic smartphone be capable of taking photos, making videos, recording sound, accessing the internet, etc. etc. Modern cars are much like smartphones and the resultant complexity will be challenging to 'non-technical' buyers. It's no good bemoaning the fact that your 2023 Fabia is less intuitive than your previous 20-years-old car, anymore than me complaining that my iPhone is far more complex than my old Nokia. I'm not interested in much of my Fabia's 'tech', but that doesn't mean I'm unaware of it, or that, if I'm having trouble with a feature's odd behaviour (like your rocket-propelled windows) that I won't check the Owner's Manual to see if it's the car that is at fault or me.

The hardcopy Owner's Manual for Fabia Mk 4 models is skimpy on detail about the car's electrically operated windows and refers the owner to the digital version of the Manual for guidance on Operation and Settings. As it happens, the digital Manual that equates to my 2024 Fabia's hardcopy booklet is currently inaccessible, but I've copied below the digital Operation and Settings advice that (probably!) will be the same for all MK 4s.

It's plain from szilvita's 'before-and-after' photos showing the rear discs's hubs that his Fabia's original badly-scored discs were replaced at the Danish dealership, but it would need a closer inspection to establish if the pads were also replaced.

Ferodo's advice on bedding in brakes is here https://www.ferodo.com/en-gb/blog/give-brakes-a-break.html There are on-line discussions/videos about resurfacing brake rotors in situ, but the methods are only practicable if the rotor can be spun (ie. on the front brakes of front-wheel-drive vehicles) and it's doubtful that a reputable dealership would attempt it. I drive a new vehicle carefully for the first 200 or so miles, but the only car I've deliberately bedded in brakes was on a VW Golf GTi Mk 1 in an attempt to get the thing to stop! I had fitted Mintex road/rally brake pads and followed the type of procedure shown here https://mintex.com/bedding-procedure/?lang=en-gbr The result was terrible noise from the brakes (front disc/rear drum) and no stopping improvement. I tried everything (even prayer sometimes) to get the Golf to stop from high speed, but nothing worked. It was a well-known problem resulting from VW's hare-brained LHD-to-RHD conversion and a solution only came when a 3rd-party specialist managed to move the brake servo from the left to the right in the engine compartment. Complaints to VW elicited the response "The car will easily pass the UK's MOT brake test". Modern cars have ABS brakes with powerful servo-assistance and the front brakes contribute most (up to 80%) of the braking power. So, even if brand-new rear discs and pads were fitted to Szilvita's Fabia, it's doubtful that the braking performance would be noticeably better. My 2024 Fabia's brakes (disc front/drum rear) need a light touch at low speeds, but so do the brakes of my 2009 Roomster (disc front and rear) that, after 24k miles, is still on its original discs/pads. At speed and driven hard, the brakes of both cars are much less aggressive - which is to be expected will be the case. Szilvita's comment that "When I drove the car home the first time and touched the brake we almost "banged our heads on the dashboard" it was sooo prompt when touching" doesn't surprise me - it's just a question of getting used to a car's characteristics.

The Infotainment Online product should 'buy' OTA (Over The Air) updating of the the navigation mapping data at no extra cost. The trouble is that how this OTA process actually operates seems to be a mystery to owners of VW Group cars (and possibly to VAG Group dealerships too). My Garmin sat-nav's mapping just covers the UK and Continental Europe. Checking for available up dates is easy and updating (depending on the specific Garmin device) can be done wirelessly by wi-fi or by physically connecting the sat-nav to a computer.An update is currently available for my elderly Garmin non-wifi sat-nav (that has free 'lifetime' updating) and a time-estimate for the process to complete is close to 1 hour. This 2021 VW T-Roc forum discussed map updating https://www.trocforums.co.uk/threads/navigation-maps-update.2494/ and one posting said The only problem is that owners have seldom seen any evidence of OTA updates working, but I believe that some statement from VW suggested that only the map areas where a particular car is driven are updated (presumably to limit download data size and time), so the map version info displayed in the car is not changed. The only way we'd know if that is true would be if some road layout familiar to an owner was changed and then that new layout was reflected in the map data. And we have no idea of the size of the area covered by such limited OTA updates ... is it local, regional, country wide ? There's later discussion here https://www.trocforums.co.uk/threads/help-with-sat-nav-updates.4095/

I can't answer any of your questions... My Fabia's touchscreen provides a good quality navigation display, but - while I fully accept that others may find the logic behind the software beneficial - the way it works is over-complex for my requirements and I'm much more comfortable with my trusty Garmin sat-nav that I can regularly keep up to date and am fairly confident will provide accurate driving data. I can (almost!) justify the £44 cost of the Infotainment Online product - though it still grieves me to pay for mapping updates - but not the other 2 products.

The current licence for my Fabia Mk 4's Skoda Connect services expires on 6 March 2025. The Skoda Connect Shop offers three products 1: Care Connect - Remote Access (1-year - £36) 2: Infotainment Online (1-year - £44) and marked "Lowest price before the discount £44.00 GDP incl. VAT" - whatever that means!!! 3: Infotainment Apps - Traffication (1-year - £4.50) I can't see 1and 3 being much use to me, but 2 seems to be worth having, despite the mapping on my car clearly being flawed. Any thoughts appreciated...

It is plain from your photos that your car's rear discs are badly scored, but there is no reason to think they might have been in that state from new and it is unlikely the scoring has resulted from anything other than 'foreign bodies' (eg. gravel). It will be interesting to learn what your Skoda dealership's reaction is to this issue is (I'm very doubtful that the Skoda warranty would cover it) but it really needs the brake-pads removing from the rear brake callipers and a check made whether there is anything embedded in the pads that might have caused the damage and result in further harm.

It looks like all UK-specification Fabia Mk 4 cars (whatever their age or model) have a 12V socket in the storage compartment beneath the central armrest. This is referred to in the "Interior equipment front" section of the Owner's Manual as shown by "K" below The Manual warns that the socket remains 'live' even when the ignition is switched off. (Although cigarette lighters are no longer installed as standard in cars and charging of phones will be via USB ports or a wireless 'pad', as cars are now almost universally marketed with a puncture repair kit comprising a can of sealant and a 12V tyre-inflator , there needs to be a matching 12V socket somewhere in the car to provide 12V power for the tyre-inflator.)

If you mean a 12V auxiliary power outlet 'socket' of the type you can plug in (say) a 12V tyre inflator or sat-nav cable (example of outlet type below) my 2024 Fabia SE L has one of these. It's hidden inside the storage box that is beneath the fold-down armrest that is between the front seats.

For a Fabia Mk 4 with DSG transmission and START-STOP active, It's not pressing the brake pedal that causes the motor to restart, it's the opposite - it's taking one's foot off ("releasing") the brake pedal that causes restarting (as it says in the Owner's Manual). This may well go against the grain if one is used to driving a manual transmission car and following 'good practice' when coming to a halt by putting the car in neutral and engaging the handbrake to prevent the vehicle rolling. A practice that, at night, will ensure that the car's brake lights do not illuminate and dazzle a driver queueing behind (as EltonGone has said). This 2013-2019 Honest John discussion may be of interest as it touches on driving automatic cars and Start/Stop systems. https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=103354 This link is to a driving instruction 'automatic car' video In the Comments section this question was asked ...one question as I'm being taught by my dad instead of paying for lessons- when coming to a stop at traffic lights which you will be at for a good minute or so, is the pattern handbrake + park, handbrake + neutral or would you just keep your foot on the brake and stay in drive? The reply given was We would normally stay in drive and not go to neutral. We would use the handbrake or parking brake when 'a pause becomes a wait'. Especially after dark when our bright red brake lights can become dazzling to a vehicle behind us.

My 2024 Skoda Fabia Mk 4 and my previous 2021 Hyundai i20 both have/had a Start/Stop system and neither system's operation was affected by the handbrake (parking brake) being applied. Although the Owner Manual for both cars explains the operation and use of the Start/Stop system and (separately) the use of the handbrake, there is nothing in either Manual to suggest that the Stop/Start system and the handbrake might in any way be linked. Guidance on START-STOP in the Owner's Manual for Fabia Mk 4 cars is as shown below and - as will be apparent - the handbrake is not mentioned. The Fabia Mk 4 Manual advises, "START-STOP decreases emissions of CO2 and harmful emissions and saves fuel", but as Start/Stop is not a mandatory 'safety' feature, there are no system functionality standards that a car manufacturer must adhere to. If a Fabia Mk 4 DSG's START-STOP system has stopped the motor and the driver keeps their foot on the brake pedal the motor will remain stopped until the driver takes their foot off the brake pedal. It's basically as simple as that, and will happen whether the car's DSG transmission is in D or N and with the handbrake engaged or disengaged. There's quite a lot of online discussion about driving automatic cars with Start/Stop and using the handbrake (GOOGLE-Search on automatic cars start/stop use of handbrake ) and the general view (particularly in USA) seems to be that an automatic car should be driven in D mode except when parked, and that the handbrake be engaged only when the car is parked and its motor turned off. To start the motor of my manual-transmission 2021 Hyundai i20 required the transmission to be in Neutral, AND the clutch-pedal to be fully depressed, AND the brake-pedal to be firmly depressed. Failure to do any of those actions, resulted in a deathly hush and a related warning message appearing on the instrument panel. This seemed like over-kill to me, but that was the sequence Hyundai insisted on and I had no option but to put up with it. Like many drivers I'm not a fan of Start/Stop systems, so - when I remember! - I turn it (and Lane Keeping Assist) off each time I start my Fabia's motor. It irks me to do this, but, other than hacking the car's software, there's no alternative.

You may well not find an online Danish retailer advertising the two parts that make up the cup-holder insert, and ordering the parts from a non-Danish seller could well attract a large delivery fee. If you provide the two part numbers to your local Skoda dealership, they should be able to tell you whether they can order them for you, but you might not like the price!!!

A UK-specification Fabia Mk 4 can have up to 5 USB ports, all of which accept cables with a USB-C end-connector. A: 2 USB ports in the centre console in front of the gear lever - intended for DATA TRANSFER AND CHARGING. B: 1 USB port in the rear-view mirror - intended for CHARGING ONLY. 😄 2 USB ports in the rear of the centre console facing the rear passenger seats - intended for CHARGING ONLY. Whether or not a USB-C cable will 'work' will depend on the cable's specification and what it is being used for. A cheap common-or-garden USB-C cable will (probably) allow a phone to be charged if plugged into any of the A, B,C ports, but may not allow data transfer even if plugged into the A ports. If a Garmin sat-nav is connected to any of the A, B or C ports using a standard USB cable, the device will not function properly. More USB-C cable advice here https://www.anker.com/blogs/cables/are-all-usb-c-cables-the-same-for-charging

In the final posting in this earlier discussion https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/522055-cup-holder-too-small/#comment-5836372 I provided the Skoda references of the two parts that form the removable cup-holder insert that has been fitted as standard in the centre console of Fabia Mk 4 cars marketed in the UK. So, if you really yearn for that cup-holder insert to replace your Fabia's removable tray, you should be able to source the necessary parts. However, it's worth pointing out that there have been complaints on this forum that the diameter of the cup-holders in the UK-specification Fabia Mk 4's removable insert is too small to accommodate the average size bottle. (Personally, as I've never drank or ate while driving, I'd rather have the tray-type of removable insert your Fabia has, than my Fabia's under-sized cup-holder insert.)

An online search on car engines 3 cylinder vs 4 cylinder will retrieve plenty of discussion about this - but what will not be found is any credible evidence that a 3-cylinder motor will be inherently less reliable than a 4-cylinder. As there are several major mechanical components of a 4-cylinder motor not needed in a 3-cylinder, there is less to go wrong and, consequently, the former should theoretically be less reliable than the latter. And, where the latest VAG 1.5litre motor (as fitted to current Fabias) is concerned, this power-plant is far more technically complex than the 1.0litre 3-cylinder. Most (all?) manufacturers of small petrol-fuelled cars will have moved to small-capacity 3-cylinder turbocharged motors as the power source. There's nothing intrinsically 'wrong' with this and - if there are problems - it's normally the electronics that are the culprits, not the motor's number of cylinders.

As your local Skoda dealership suggested you try a system reset to address the Bluetooth issue and this has resulted in you now having difficulty 'reactivating' your car, the best thing IMO would be to take your car to that dealership and ask them to sort out the present problem. I accidentally (finger trouble) reset my Fabia's system and had to 'reactivate' the car using the MySkoda app. Although I was eventually able to do this successfully , the procedure involved was not user-friendly and I don't recall exactly how I did it. The moral of the exercise was to be VERY careful when fiddling about with the car's infotainment settings and avoid the reset setting like the plague.

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the with-or-without photos below of Fabia silver or black alloy wheels make it hard to believe that the aero covers can be classed as a cosmetic enhancement (especially on black wheels). Regarding the aero cover's aerodynamic benefits, in 2021 (when the Fabi Mk 4 was launched) Skoda's press release said No statistical data were provided (or have subsequently become available). It's probable that the covers only provide an insignificantly small aerodynamic improvement and 100% certain that Fabia owners will be unable to check how that improvement might beneficially affect the car in real-world driving. The fact that Skoda have now dropped the aero covers from the Fabia's standard specification must surely indicate that Skoda believes the (potential) improvement is too small to bother with and that the covers are not an important selling-point for Fabia buyers. My 2024 Fabia has silver alloy wheels and I'm going to leave the aero covers on. If I needed to change a wheel in an emergency, I could do this more quickly than if the wheel-bolts had caps on them and I don't find any difficulty getting the aero covers off. I think the wheels look better without the covers, but I'm not a fetishist where car wheels are concerned.