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Of course it'll work, stop with the superstition already, it hasn't blown from overheating so there's no damage, the gasket just needs replacing.

Holy wall of text batman! TLDR: I used to do this stuff for a living so I doubt there's much you can tell me. So you're saying this is not an interceptor, rather a glorified ebay resistor of power?

All this nonsense is about toys for boys anyway 🙄

If it's an interceptor then it's not inferior, it's just a remap applied dynamically rather than rewriting the static map, it's algorithmically derived to provide the same end result.

Do you already have paddles?

I thought the old Skoda lump was a wet liner block, no?

I wouldn't worry about it, the old one will be fine until you finally weigh it in, they never need doing in this country because our fuel is clean. Diesels need doing every year, petrols never.

Head gasket is an easier job than the camchain you've just done. Because it is the HG I'm afraid.

Wino is right, your new box doesn't say what kind of signal it wants, I'm guessing it's looking for analog square wave pulsetrains for RPM and vehicle speed and maybe a DC resistance value for throttle position. But speculation is pointless because you'd have to tell the box in software what it was looking at in order to calibrate it.

I just experienced the exact same thing, the other bulb blew two weeks after the first, it's a MTBF thing, modern bulbs are so accurately made that if you replace them as a pair they'll last about the same time.

It's factual rather than just opinion, there are equations that back it up. Big back brakes are a RICE, ricer.

This is nonsense by the way, the stronger the front brakes, the greater the weight shift and the less work the back brakes can do before locking, bigger back brakes are only needed when breaking from very high speeds or if the vehicle is particularly heavy like big fat German supersaloons with big engines or track cars. A Skoda Fabia is neither of these things.

Excellent work, that scraping could well be the culprit, worth investigating further.

You need to helicoil the threads to repair them, they're M9 x 1.25 which is an unusual size so you need to buy a complete kit. Understand that that you lack mechanical sympathy and follow the instructions carefully, don't rush and don't bodge! You're not an idiot but you clearly lack experience.

A custom remap is really only necessary on modified engines, by modified I mean modified for performance by improving the pumping efficiency of the standard engine, not modified by sticking a load of pointless junk all over it.

The importance of greasing the pins is wildly exaggerated, they're chrome plated and protected by rubber bellows to prevent them sticking and they're not even a tight fit because they don't really carry any load, they're purely to keep the floating caliper aligned. The pads and the carrier take all the strain of braking.

Copaslip is fine on the backs of the pads, but not on the pins.

Sixty in a thirty is fast, go with a gates belt kit, any water pump will do.

Check that the filter screen on the pump isn't clogged first, then change the fuel filter itself, if the pump is still noisey then you can change it.

Have you reset the windows correctly?

The button is for a light, try changing the battery.

I really wouldn't worry about that bearing, just do what TMB suggests and top up the gearbox oil or get it done for you.

The vendor might not have known, a garage may have charged good money for a very bad job.

Hideous bodgery, why couldn't they just use a neat strip of black electrical tape, then it would be easy to reinstate once the simple fault wino mentioned is fixed. Morons.

Reasonably common, it's not a Skoda thing so much as a 'listening to primitive music far too loud' thing. Replace the speaker and turn the volume down if you start to hear distortion.