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Some git reversed into my roomie and drove off. The rear bumper is badly cracked; as far as I can tell nothing metal is bent or busted. The rear door is ok and I pulled out the spare wheel to check the bay it sits in hasn't changed shape. I had look on youtube for howto videos on replacing the rear bumper, but I couldn't find one. I have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help me with; i.) Are there any instructions - preferable as video - on how to change the bumper on a roomster ? ii.) Is it moderately easy DIY ( I've replaced the door lock and door card on a fiesta before, that's about the level / limit of my mechanic abilities ) iii.) Is there anything inside the bumper ( reinforcement, whatever ) that I should be checking for damage ?

Ah, it's a wiring problem :( There's two brown and two red wires that go into the back of the bulb holder for the projector bulb - both brown wires are damaged very near the mounting point. It looks like a bit of solder will sort them out ( they look half-cut, or maybe fatigued, and then they've pulled loose with the projector unit turning ). Does anyone know it ifts possible to unlcip this wire further up the chain so that I can remove it before attempting a repair, as there's not a lot of room to work in ?

It's a fair point, I've got another spare I can try that too

Hi all, I'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions - My driver side ( right side ) headlight unit is not working. Neither the main/low beam nor the sidelight will come on, although the indicator still works. I changed the main beam bulb and no joy ( there was no sign of the previous one being broken ), I swapped the #58 and #57 fuses out, this also didn't help. Next guess is something wrong with the earth point for the unit ? Does this sound likely ? This is a 56 plate roomster, but I'm posting to the fabia II forum because AFAIK the car's the same at the front and more people will read it here The headlight module is the cornering variety. Any help appreciated. Thx

I'm quite tempted by this ... I really like the yellow color that you can get fabias, octavias and rapids in ... but no yellow roomsters :( Mine's a mid blue that I quite like but still, Yellow, y'know, it beckons ...

I thought they made a MkII Sedan in India that everyone was getting muddle up with the rapid ( for obvious reasons ), but I can't find any details. There's a MkI sedan parked outside my office most days; it's an ugly contraption, which has always puzzled me when the Cordoba ( the Ibiza sedan of the same era ) looks completely natural with its boot. They made the Cordoba with anything up to the 130bhp lump; as far as I can tell the Mk1 fabia sedan was only available with an SDI. bah.

As it says Make and not Model, I reckon you're in the clear here. The front half of the Roomster is clearly derived from the Mark II Fabia. The fact that there's a separate Fabia Estate might confuse things ... but it ought to be in your favour that the Roomster has more cargo space than the Fabia Estate. Good Luck. Jobsworth eejits !

My thoughts too ... I went to see a liftback Rapid at a dealers, and asked why the seats didn't fold flat, when I'm used to skoda making clever, practical cars ... he had the decency to look embarrassed. For me, unfortunately, it's a deal-breaker :(

The car finally got rained on properly ... and I can confirm that changing the cabin filter has solved the problem I also notice that the car doesn't steam up, so I don't think I have any leaks to deal with, thankfuly. The Philips X-Treme lights are nice, and neither better nor worse than the osram nightbreakers that I've used in the past ( on a fiesta ) - defo a step up over 'standard' ( e.g Halfords ) H7s.

My 56 plate has cornering lights. This seems to mean two things - first, the headlights swivel, and secondly, it turns on the foglight on the side I'm turning to ( or indicating to, i forget ) at low speeds.

I heard that rumour, but then I can't see it being different enough to the Yeti to be worth keeping. The Touran is pretty wide, isn't it ? I wish they'd put 4x4 on the Roomie scout. That'd be my dream

My guess is that if they make a MkII Roomie - as opposed to a facelift - that it'll be based on the Rapid, with the kind of relationship to the rapid that the ford C-Max used to have to the focus; i.e same car as the sportback but taller with a sqaured off ass-end, only saved by having varifold seats thrown in. It'll look blander too, as there's plenty of precedent for 'awkward' looking cars being toned-down in their second generation. See Fiat Multipla, for example. Or even the yeti, which lost it's cheerful round headlights, didn't it ? :(

I've changed the filter ... now if it rains over the weekend I'll see if it makes any difference. I also put in philips x-treme H7 headlight bulbs, ready to try out for tonight's 170 mile commute. They didn't look that much brighter in the garage, but out on the road is the real test.

*fingers crossed* for you ... but the Roomster is a lovely machine, and with service history you should be fine

Richard and Mozzie, thanks for the suggestions ... if I can't sort if out with the cabin filter, I will try both of those ! The cat-litter is particularly inventive

Oh - one other thing bryanb, on mine the filter fits inside a plastic frame but I hear ( although that cannot confirm ) that on newer models the filter sits inside the housing without a separate frame ... so you may find that on yours.

You've got it right; access to the pollen filter is from passenger footwell, underside of the glovebox. You may need to remove a bit of foam baffling to get to it properly, this just pops out if you bend it carefully. Your legs will be sticking out of the car while you do this, unless you're a professional contortionist :p so wait till it stops raining !

Good thought. The Pollen filter turns out to be dead easy to get to ( instructions here http://skoda.workshop-manuals.com/fabia-mk2/index.php?id=1565 ), so I had a look. Mine's filthy and contained some rotting leaf matter, so I'm guessing the garage missed it last service :( I've given it a rough clean and ordered a replacement filter; if it fixes the problem, I'll post here for the benefit of anyone who arrives here by google with a similar problem.

My car smells bad after rain, like a bit wet-doggish or mouldy, clears after twenty minutes or so of driving. So my first thought is that there's rain getting in somewhere, but I can't find anything damp - checked footwells, bootspace, etc. Next thought is that either there's something manky in the air intakes to the passenger compartment, or that there's water collecting in the doors somehow ( the rubber seals on my front windows have never looked like they're sitting quite right ). But no Haynes ... how to check ? Should I post this in the Fabia MkII forum too ? Any thoughts appreciated PS ... not usualy a problem ... I keep it in a garage during the week !

If you're looking for downsides, I'd mention reversing visibility - the wheels close to the corners is helpful, but the bottom edge of the rear window is pretty high up ( as with many modern cars ) so I admit I quite enjoy my rear parking sensors ! The swooped lower rear edge of the drivers window is a bit disconcerting too, although you get used to it. Because its a high vehicle you get noticeable wind resistance if you happen to be ( hypotheticaly of course ) travelling much above the motorway speed limit. Upsides - ludicrously practical, comfy on long journeys, fuel efficency is good tho not amazing ( I have 1.9tdi ). I've done about 20,000 miles in mine this year and its far and away my favourite out of all the cars I've ever owned ( of which the best others were probably a focus estate and a fabia mk1 VRS ). The teanage kids love it, which kind of surprised me because I thought they'd think it was a bit frumpy :p Oh - and if you can, get one with roof rails as it has no proper gutters to fit roof bars to otherwise. Not that I've yet found anything that I wanted to move that I couldn't fit inside, anyway ( as the passenger seat tilts all the way flat you can put surprisingly long, large items in - 2.2 meter bookcase last weekend )

Not that I can help, but does it look like fitting roof rails to the channels is possible ? I'd always heard that it wasn't, and I'm too scared to pull my strips up incase they won't go back on again ... apparently with some justification :/

I didn't think to look in the spare wheel ... I expect I have a Torx key there too, if that's standard. I'll check I've changed a headlight, in the swively module, that wasn't too bad. I'll consider myself forewarned on the parking lights, ta

One of my break lights was out. It's a bit of a fiasco changing it, isn't it ? I had to remove the whole light cluster from the car to get into it, its lucky that I bought a set of torx keys by accident when I meant to get alan keys, a year or two back ! IT was easier on my mark I fabia, where you could get at the bulbs through the boot. It's the only bit of design that's annoyed me so far. I love the practicality of everything else. On the other hand, I'm guessing this new system is more waterproof .. the MkI fabia leaked water into the boot if it rained hard !!!

I hope that they include either fold-flat or take-out seats in the Spaceback version. Slopey folded seats in an estate just look half-thought-out. But then I am a Roomy owner !

So at around 1am I was just filling up with diesel when some bloke wandered over to ask "Hey, do you like your car ? I hear good things about them, I've just never met somoeone who owns one" So natch I told him my roomie is my favourite car I've ever owned and extolled it's virtues. I feel happy