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Are you happy to share with us what is cost to get new sills and floor repair cost? Would be interesting to get a ball park figure on what it cost, thanks

Here ya go as if by magic he has arrived

Mk1 fabia are hydraulic clutch not cable clutch and so the information suggesting the biting point moves with wear and is higher on a new clutch are incorrect. Sure the biting point of a new clutch will be different to the worn clutch but not necessary higher. So I stand by my original reply and won't take offence at the condescending remarks from owainsdad, maybe they confused the cable operated clutch characteristics with a hydraulic clutch.

One of the advantages of a hydraulic clutch is the hydraulics compensate for wear and so the pedal biting point stays consistent throughout the life of the clutch, if the clutch gets to the point of slipping the driver will get the sensation of a higher pedal biting point as the slightest depression of the pedal will exaggerate the slipping. Your guess is incorrect my friend, I don't want to play top trumps on our age but I was born when the Mk1 cortina was still in production. Thanks for your research on my posts, I rarely post unless I have experience of the issue as there is to much misinformation going around, I have owned my Mk1 VRS for 13 years (130,000+ miles of use ) and I also maintain another persons Mk1 VRS, during this time I have done 5 clutch changes, 2 x concentric slave cylinder changes and 1 x clutch master cylinder change on them and so pretty familiar with how they operate and what they are like to drive as they wear down. The troll issue comments I have made in the past have been directed at one person that is know on this forum by anyone that has been on here for a few years, he has had lots of clashes with members due to his abrupt style of comments, I am quiet surprised he has not commented on this thread to be honest. Anyway was fun reading your comments, have a good day

Not sure you understand how a clutch works as what you said makes no sense, the original poster is correct in his assumption, I do find however that the hydraulic system in these cars do have quiet a high biting point. It may sound obvious but get the clutch bled out again, if you need to push the pedal to the floor to disengage the clutch it sound like air in the system, if the biting point is a bit random also suggests air in the system making it inconsistent.

I have done 43,000 miles on a GTB1756 and it has been faultless and drives very nice, my personal opinion is a GTB or GTD turbo will perform better than a GT turbo so if you can afford the extra time and money then best to go for the later designed turbos.

Always trying to provoke a negative response, your a troll sepulchrave plain and simple

No the ASZ/ARL are 550cc and so flow more than the 530cc BLT

My mistake should not have reacted to trolling as that's what they want. sepulchrave is the Mk1 fabia forum troll

Sorry I forgot you are always correct about everything...Yawn The original post asked "are there any differences", that is the question I correctly answered. Time to climb down from that high horse Mr Perfect... Not

Physically the same but ASZ/ARL are 550cc and BLT are 530cc So if you put ASZ/ARL into a BLT or BLT into an ASZ/ARL it won't run properly and will need remapping.

You cannot get them from Skoda, unfortunately discontinued end of 2021 along with a lot of other Fabia Mk1 parts!

Exactly the same headlight on car parts 4 less for £40 less per headlight

I would be cautious putting the seat covers through the washing machine, I did that and it totally ruined mine, the thin layer of foam that is embedded in the seat cover disintegrated and the seat covers came out of the machine nice and clean but all lumpy were some of the foam had been washed away and some had survived. They were so bad I ended up scrapping them and buying some Mk2 VRS seats as I could not live with how they looked!

Not sure why you think that as definately not my experience. Have you had problems with your mildly tuned VRS with 6 speed gearbox?

Why are they not good? I was under the impression the 6th speed is stronger than the 5 speed. Buying 2nd hand is always risky, if money is no object then he may as well just get his gearbox reconditioned by a professional.

If you do Facebook look on the Fabia VRS groups as they are always being broken, 2nd gearboxes go for less than £100. Off the top of my head the gearbox is an 02M, there are a few different 02M versions, code HDS was the common one on the VRS, code FJW was the early VRS and had taller gearing.

Recent Headlight thread

Injector wiring harness? not experienced it myself but they can give strange misfire issues when they start to fail.

I have the strut brace you have linked to, you do not have to move anything, the only tight place is the pipes coming out of the vacuum box but it still all fits. Definitely don't need to move 'AC', 'hot air intake', 'turbo intercooler feed pipes' or 'ABS gubbins', 100% certain about that!

Car Parts 4 Less have both sides in stock, £72.10 each and currently 19% discount on top so £58.40 each. I brought a pair from CP4L a year ago and they are great. Why buy 2nd hand rubbish if you can get brand new for less than £60 ?

We need pictures 🙂

It sounds like you may need the shim mod rather than a new slave cylinder: Shim MOD

Yes you can fit a FMIC without any need to remap the car.