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You don't need to run in a compressor, it's a precision built mechanism that will work perfectly as soon as it runs.

That chain is definitely noisey, however a scan tool will not tell you anything, the camchain is mechanical not electronic. Please don't panic, you've had to tangle with some SERIOUS catastrophists in here and their doomy mood has gripped you. There is no reason to think the engine is about to go wrong, stay away from the garage or they'll sense your inexperience and hit you with a really big bill.

You can put the old injectors back in and sell the recon set separately and get most of your money back so it needn't be a disaster.

Unfortunately those chemical testers are not always reliable, particularly on diesels, a big end is a much louder metallic knock, a little end is a metallic click and a broken piston ring ticks.

Unfortunately it's probably HGF given the coolant loss, can you get a compression test done?

Complete loss of compression on one cylinder suggests a bent valve, I would suggest you buy or borrow a borescope so you can inspect the cylinder through the spark plug hole. Another possibility is that the injector or spark plug have come adrift somehow, check them too. I can't come up with an explanation for the valve problem other than slipped timing, you need to check it yourself and possibly sack the garage.

It's not even that, it's the practical limitations of inspecting and test driving a car, particularly one that's nearly ten years old, it's just not possible to catch everything, there's always a certain amount of luck involved. Modern downsized turbo engines seem particularly unreliable across most brands, they seem barely able to make it to 10 years or 100k without spitting the dummy expensively, timing chains have made reliability worse not better and many new designs are using belts again for this reason. The secret is to buy a car cheaply enough that it doesn't matter if it needs work.

Jeez there's some overthinking going on in here, @Posthumanjust go and look at the cars and test drive them both so you can form an opinion about which engine variant would suit you better, the 1.2TSI will be MUCH more torquey due to the turbo.

Will be ok, I like 195/50/15 tyres, wide choice and good value, a nearly perfect balance between sidewall stiffness and comfort compliance.

I think the auxiliary belt is slipping, hence the smell, have you topped it up using one of those Fisher Price DIY kits from the land of the rising Yuan?

If the engine is smooth and quiet and pulls well then the job has been done properly and it should give many thousands of miles if trouble free motoring. It's the chain tensioner that fails, leading to valve damage when the timing slips.

Possibly a problem with the controller which resides in the drivers side motor, not the passenger side.

At that price you'd be crazy not to!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160486482006?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=7MNbnO6yTHG&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=_BlMq7ebT3O&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY How hard are you looking? Are your eyes open? How are you spelling 1.4 TDI?

Air temperature sensor?

That's the headlight, I reckon it's for the front foglight in the bumper...

Why not just buy the right one for your car!

It's a 1.6 TDI so best advice is to replace all four injectors since they all fail very close to each other, looks like two of yours have gone already. By all means confirm the diagnosis, injectors are not cheap.

Yes.

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The air flap is stuck, try cycling it between full hot and full cold to unstick it. Recirculation is dodgy on most Fabias, I've had a couple and recirc didn't work on either of them.

For regular standard drivers the brakes are the first thing they hit when stuff starts to go wrong, these people need ABS because they panic brake when they don't need to. For more advanced drivers the brakes are a last resort. There are surprisingly few situations which require a full emergency stop, to be honest I can't remember the last time I needed to do one. However I see people braking inappropriately irrespective of road conditions every time I go out. I don't need ABS but you might. Sorry about that.

Would it not be easier to fit the bush insert to the wishbone first before pulling it into the console?

I'm extremely surprised that anyone would bother to implement such a fiddly feature, especially using the ABS module, I guess the coding team got bored. However I'll reserve the most surprise for the OEM that anyone bothers with tank senders any more, pretty much every other transportation sector uses mass rather than volume and I would imagine it would be fairly trivial to incorporate a strain gauge or load cell instead, this would allow for much more accurate and consistent measurements when the vehicle was stationary and the rest could be calculated on the fly.

Yes you can, it's a 1.6 TDI so injector failure is not so much a case of "if" but "when".