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Only two Fabia models are currently marketed in Australia, both with 7-speed DSG. Their specification is listed here: A significant difference to the UK is the Skoda (Australia) 7-year warranty.

There is a Skoda website relating to the current UK range of Fabia cars and each model has the WLTP combined fuel-consumption stated. All models, from the 'basic' SE Edition to the 130, have a WLTP datum of at least 50mpg. It should be obvious that, if an owner of a Fabia SE Edition drives their car gently to consciously minimise fuel consumption and an owner of a Fabia 130 thrashes their car mercilessly, the amount of fuel used in each case will vary substantially. However, to the best of my knowledge, there are no alternative-to-WLTP recognised data available to provide 'more realistic' fuel-usage information.

ALL Skoda Fabia Mk4 Owner's Manuals carry this information on the air-conditioning's operating conditions The rear page of my car's EC Certificate of Conformity carries WLTP fuel-consumption data (litres/100km). The combined figure given is 5.7 equating to 49.56 British MPG. The fuel-consumption of one of my 1970s cars (a turbo-enhanced Reliant Scimitar GTE) could drop below 20mpg at the least provocation, so - if my Fabia can produce a genuine average consumption approaching 50mpg - I'll be delighted.

For what it's worth... I notice that the design of the Amundsen infotainment touchscreen on my Fabia SE L (built on 16 January 2024) was revised for later models. Images of the two screens are shown below (oldest first) and it will be seen that the 'look' of the virtual buttons and their position differs with the more recent (lower "Welcome Ben") screen. Perhaps more significant for a Fabia Mk4 driver are the modifications made to the controls for the Climatronic air-conditioning system. The controls on my car are as shown in this image and it will be seen from the image below of the later controls that the MENU and OFF buttons have been relocated upwards and their original positions now have manual buttons to decrease or increase the fan speed, rather than (infuriatingly) having to do this through the infotainment touchscreen. I don't know exactly when the changes were made, but the online Owner's Manuals show the 'old' controls in the 19/6/2023 document (that applies to my car) and the 'new' controls in the 15/1/2024 version.

I've checked the 'logic' of my car's Amundsen unit's navigation system and (as I said above) there's no basic quick-or-short route-setting capability. As shown on the image attached below, a fastest route is offered, together with alternatives that the system calculates will be slower. The image shows that parameters can be set for route calculation, but these are things like "Avoid toll roads" or "Avoid ferries".

My 2024 Fabia SE L Climatronic air-con system is controlled through a mixture of physical buttons and the car's Amundsen infotainment full-touchscreen display . Having looked at several online 2023 Fabia Monte Carlo online adverts, it appears that this model's A/C system was controlled similarly, except the standard infotainment display was the "Bolero" unit that had no 'navigation' and (having a couple of physical buttons) was not 'full touchscreen'. This image (taken from a 2023 Fabia Monte Carlo advert) is of the Bolero unit and this image is of the car's air-con controls with the air-recirculation button green-arrowed. Last December there was a long forum discussion about Fabia Mk 4 windscreen condensation. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/528895-condensation-on-inside-of-windows-takes-ages-to-clear-even-with-aircon/

My 2024 Fabia SE L Climatronic air-con system is controlled through a mixture of physical buttons and the car's Amundsen infotainment full-touchscreen display . Having looked at several online Fabia 2023 online adverts, it appears that this model's A/C system was controlled similarly, except the standard infotainment display was the "Bolero" unit that had no 'navigation' and (having a couple of physical buttons) was not 'full touchscreen'. This image (taken from a 2023 Fabia Monte Carlo advert) is of the Bolero unit Uploading Attachment...

My Fabia's Owner'Manual indicates that two types of air-conditioning system are possible - manual or 'automatic' ("Climatronic"). Both have an air-recirculation button (marked with the usual symbol) The button for the manual A/C is between the left and central rotating switches and the button for the Climatronic system is in the head of the right rotating switch. This link may be of interest Škoda Storyboard10 Tips on How to Use Air-conditioning Properly - Škoda S...You recently had the chance to discover the challenges that go into developing the ventilation system of any new ŠKODA. This time, we want to share some practical tips and correct common mistakes.

I have a 2024 Fabia SE L model with Amundsen infotainment system that includes 'navigation'. I'm accustomed (and habituated) to using a stand-alone Garmin sat-nav that allows a quickest-or-shortest-route basic setting to be specified. To the best of my knowledge, the Amundsen navigation system does not include that basic quick-or-short setting capability - it just offers a 'best' route and allows the driver to choose up to two alternatives that will be slower/longer.

nta16 I believe Gav3rdfabia was well aware that the image appearing on his car's display related to the Lane Assist feature - his problem was getting rid of it. If you owned a Fabia Mk4 with the non-Virtual Cockpit instrument-cluster, you'd know that there's an uncomfortable ménage à trois between the infotainment display-unit, the small central display screen between the speedometer and tachometer dials and the buttons on the steering wheel. As Gav eventually discovered, it's actually a simple matter to use the buttons to move between the various things that can appear on the central display once one knows and can remember how to do it. (Shortly after buying my Mk4, while messing about with the car's settings menus I accidentally triggered a factory reset. Recovering from this can take some effort and - as Gav said - reconnecting to Skoda Connect can be a challenge.)

The title of this forum thread ("Correct Tyre Pressure?") begun in April 2024, suggests that the data on the Fabia Mk 4's tyre-pressure sticker may be incorrect, but there's absolutely no proof that this is the case. The recommended pressures are indeed high, but that does not mean they are somehow wrong and, if Fabia Mk 4 owners choose to use lower pressures, there is nothing to prevent them doing so. If driving on UK's poorly maintained roads at UK legal speeds, reducing the sticker pressures by 0.2/0.3 bar should be fine, but, if I were regularly cruising a Fabia Monte Carlo at 200kmh on a German unrestricted autobahn, I'd definitely choose to use the sticker pressures. (During my 60+years of driving I've only come across one instance - with a motorhome - where I KNEW the recommended tyre pressures were wrong, plus one instance (with another motorhome) where the recommended pressures were questionable. Otherwise, I've used the recommended pressures as a guideline, not as an 11th commandment.)

As you mentioned on Page 1 of this forum thread, Fabia Mk 3 cars' tyre-pressure sticker had three columns (as shown below) The 3-people values in the 1st column are sometimes referred to (in VW Group-speak) as 'comfort' pressures, with the 3-people ECO pressures in the 2nd column providing potentially better fuel economy at the expense of a slightly firmer ride. For the Fabia Mk 4, Skoda has reverted to a 2-column sticker and - having come across online requests for an explanation of how the 3-column sticker should be interpreted - I believe this is for simplicity's sake. And, for a 2-column sticker, it's understandable that ECO pressures will be provided for the 3-people loading. I wondered, briefly, if the 3.4bar rear-tyres pressure specified on the Fabia Mk 4 sticker's 5-people column might be to counter oversteer in the event of a high-speed swerve being necessary, but concluded that it's merely close to the pressure needed when the tyres are subjected to their maximum design-load. Manufacturers of commercial-vehicle tyres can provide tables showing the inflation pressure needed to safely support a defined load. So it's possible to weigh a loaded commercial vehicle and establish a suitable tyre pressure for each axle. To the best of my knowledge pressure-to-load tables are not available for car tyres, meaning that car manufacturers may assume a worst-case scenario, which seems to be what Skoda has done with their 5-people pressure recommendations. For every 10°C change in temperature, tyre pressure changes by about 0.1bar (or 1 to 2 PSI) and the tyre industry reference temperature for providing tyre-pressure recommendations is 20°C. If a Fabia Mk 4's tyres are inflated to 2.5bar at 0°C, this will equate to around 2.7bar at 30°C. I once asked a Continental tyre technician about the quite common suggestion that car drivers should adjust tyre pressures to allow for summer/winter temperature differences, but he said "Just use the car manufacturer's recommended pressures irrespective of the weather".

This January 2024 enquiry on the VW T-Cross forum mentions what sounds (to me) like the issue you have. Unfortunately, there was only one response and that was unspecific... https://www.tcrossforums.co.uk/threads/main-display-has-disappeared.1242/ You could try disconnecting your car's starter-battery at its negative terminal, leaving the battery disconnected for (say) an hour and then reconnecting it. A couple of years ago the central display on my 2009 Skoda Roomster suddenly went blank. The battery disconnect/reconnect ploy brought the display back to life and its been working normally ever since.

fabiamk4man If you read through the firt page of this thread, you'll see I mentioned that, for my 2009 Skoda Roomster, a 'car-fully-loaded' pressure of 3.2bar was advised for the rear tyres. I can't see why you should find it surprising that, when a lot of weight is put on a car's rear axle, the pressure in the rear tyres must, for safety reasons, be increased accordingly. In normal 'lightly-loaded' use I use 2.2bar for the Roomster's front and rear tyres, but - if, behind the car's front seats, I have loaded 500kg of builder's rubble to take to the local recycling centre - it should be obvious that the 2.2bar will be too low to safely handle the load now being put on the rear tyres. (It was also suggested earlier in this discussion that inflating to 3.4bar the standard tyres Skoda fits to Fabia Mk 4 cars might exceed the maximum pressure advised by the tyres' manufacturer, but it takes minimal research to confirm that this not so.)

The psi difference between 2.5bar and 2.3bar is roughly 3psi. I inflate my 2009 Skoda Roomster's tyres to 2.2bar (front and rear) and, if its front tyres' pressure has reduced to 2.0bar, I can recognise a 'softening' in the car's ride-quality shortly after setting out on the badly maintained roads around where I live. So, if you rate ride-quality over fuel economy, use 2.3bar instead of 2.5bar.

This 15-minutes video may be of general interest

Discussed (in some detail) in this 2023/2024 BRISKODA forum thread https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/515617-driving-a-dsg-auto/ The "Automatic Gearbox" section in every Fabia MK 4's Owner's Manual (print and online versions) includes the following guidance Obviously holding the car stationary with the footbrake depressed will result in the rear brake lights being illuminated and, at night, may irritate a driver stopped behind you. The UK Highway Code's Rule 114 advises In stationary queues of traffic, drivers should apply the parking brake and, once the following traffic has stopped, take their foot off the footbrake to deactivate the vehicle brake lights. This will minimise glare to road users behind until the traffic moves again. This is fine when the vehicle has a manual transmission and shifting to Neutral and applying the handbrake is what I do when I'm driving a car that has a manual gearbox. But, when I'm driving my Fabia Mk 4 DSG, I leave it in D unless I know I'm going to be stationary for quite some time.

The Skoda alloy wheels catalogue can be found here: https://www.skoda.co.uk/_doc/91603989-bb80-4c40-b3e9-a13932071c3f For the Fabia, 15", 16", 17" and 18" diameter wheels are shown and the ET (offset) and tyre size are provided for each wheel. These earlier forum discussions related to lowering a Fabia Mk 4 Monte Carlo model https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/525531-lightly-modified-fabia-iv/ https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/534680-does-the-car-sits-too-high-and-is-it-worth-getting-it-lowered/ and the photos may give some idea of the 'wheel arch' look. The Fabia Mk 4 130 model has no-other-choice 18" Libra black-painted diamond-cut alloy wheels (with smoke top coat) and a -15mm lowered suspension 'sport chassis'. This side-on image shows the effect and, for comparison purposes, a Fabia Mk 4 SE L with the standard 16"-diameter wheels.

The optional steel spare-wheel and foam-plastic tool-storage insert for a Skoda Fabia Mk 4 is as shown in the image below and includes a scissor jack. Although the type of jack shown in the (green) 1st photo of the two in the earlier posting has the potential to damage the reinforced metal jacking-seam of a Fabia Mk 4, in practice it won't be usable as a Mk 4's seam is a much further towards the centre of the vehicle than on earlier models. Whatever the type of jack, if it is positioned on the car's sill and not on the reinforced jacking-seam, the sill will be damaged when the car is lifted.

Online comments indicate that UK-specification Fabia Mk 1, 2 and 3 cars had a glove-box light as standard, but UK-specification Fabia Mk 4s do not. This omission was mentioned here in 2023 https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/513796-colour-edition-glove-box/ On my 2024-built UK-marketed Fabia Mk 4 SE L car there's an oblong hole above the glove-box's drop-down storage compartment that (presumably) is intended to take a light. It's reasonable to assume from this that Fabias marketed in some other countries do have a light, but - on my car - there's no preparatory wiring behind the 'light hole'. 'Officially' retrofitting a light would require a Skoda kit of parts. I can't find any evidence that such a kit is available, so it's understandable (to me) if Skoda Customer Services advised that retrofitting a glove-box light to my car would not be an option. As Evolution13 says, it should be possible to fit a light (that I assume an a Mk 4 owner would want to to switch itself on and off automatically when the glove-box was opened/closed) but - while a reasonably competent DIYer should be able to carry out that task - it's not something I'd expect a Skoda dealership's workshop being prepared to attempt.

When adverts for recent Fabia Monte Carlo cars show the Virtual Cockpit (VC) display illuminated, the display's 'look' always seems to be like your 2nd photo. All current-model Fabias now have the VC, but the Skoda Configurator suggests the Fabia Monte Carlo VC will have red-ring clocks, but other Fabia models will not. It would appear, then, that Skoda may have chosen to set the VC default theme to match the Monte Carlo model's 'boy racer' red accented interior trim. However much a buyer of a Fabia Monte Carlo might dislike the red accented interior trim and yearn for the more 'mature' restrained interior of other Fabia models, red interior trim appears to be the no-choice standard fit - and that may also be the case with the red-ring-clock VC default theme. As I suggested above, it might be possible to twiddle a Monte Carlo's VC fairly easily with the right equipment to change the default theme.

My 2024 Fabia Mk 4 SE L has an analogue instrument-cluster. The information on the alternative Virtual Cockpit provided in the Owner's Manual (hard-copy and soft-copy versions) for my car shows five display variants but there's no advice on how an owner might change the overall 'colour look' of each display. This link mentions setting a Skoda's Virtual Cockpit default display 'theme' to the vRS version (ie. with red rings around the clocks). https://obdeleven.com/customizations/skoda/dashboard-vrs-theme?srsltid=AfmBOooyVS8F0Y0K3ASqQeZ-bppHTLp9RUHkcNPvILGzzlS_lr4LrOJP Your 2025 Fabia Monte Carlo already seems to have the vRS theme as the default, but whether this is deliberate (ie. all 2025 Fabia Monte-Carlo models now have this theme as default) or it's just your car, is anybody's guess. Suggest you ask the Skoda dealer you got the car from about this - if OBDeleven can be used to change the default theme, a Skoda dealer's equipment should be able to do this too.

This Wikipedia entry relates to Time in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe It will be apparent from the Wikipedia map that travelling from the UK to another European country will normally involve a 'clock change' and, if a vehicle has a dashboard clock, that will need to be adjusted accordingly. A Fabia Mk 4's clock is adjusted through its infotainment system (an "Amundsen" system in my car's case). This can be done manually (there's a simple 'toggle' between UK summer or winter times) or - as my SE L car has navigation - the GPS can be allowed to automatically select the appropriate time for where and when the vehicle is being driven. (I remember ferry-crossing from the UK to France in a motorhome about 25 years ago. The crossing was in late March and I switched the vehicle's clock (and our watches) to French summer time just before we disembarked. The roads in France were surprisingly empty and all the shops in the villages we were passing through were closed. "Is this a French bank holiday?" I asked my wife, but the reality was that I'd got the clock change date wrong and it was two hours earlier in France than I anticipated.)

Miles ŠkodaHow to Change the Clock in a ŠKODA – Miles ŠkodaA quick video to show you how to change the clock in a ŠKODA. Taken in a ŠKODA Superb but the process is similar for many ŠKODA vehicles.A few of the 'clocks' in my house automatically switch between GMT (UK winter time) and GMT+1 (UK summer time) but many do not. My 2009 Skoda Roomster's clock needs manual adjustment as do some of our kitchen applances' digital displays and all of our analogue watches' time-settings require altering when 'the clocks change'. The Fabia Mk 4 does indeed have some mystifying non-intuitive features, but setting the date and time is not one of them. The procedure is touched on briefly in the Fabia Owner's Manual (paper and online versions) in the Infotainment sections, but = because it's easy to do - blow-by-blow instructions are not provided.

It might be useful if you can provide details of the mount you have. As I said above, I bought a Yesido C242 mount as shown in this image: The problem with this mount (as far as I'm concerned) is that the length of the part (arrowed in red on image) is slightly longer than the depth of my Fabia Mk4's central air-vent unit. Shortening that part is a possibility, but as the Yesido C242 fits well on my Skoda Roomster's deeper central air-vents and I have a 'bean-bag' mount for my Garmin sat-nav that I can use with the Fabia, I probably won't bother unless the Fabia's inbuilt sat-nav drives me to distraction.