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No, both fours.

Don't worry about the starter motor, my 1.4 was noisy for 11 years and my 2.0 still is after 6 years.

So that's where they went!

Thumbnail gives you ~24 thou which is ~0.6 mm. This is a good enough gap for most plugs to start an engine, you can set them properly once it's running.

Good buy, when you get them, give them a good squirt of WD40 or similar before putting them away after you've used them, cheap stainless still gets spotty with rust over time.

I think mine are Starrett but we're talking 40 years ago so I really can't remember clearly, I can tell you my cheap steel set turned into a solid lump of rust years ago and got binned.

Yes, yes and yes, other PD engines from the VAG range will also fit. No issues at all.

If you're really going to buy feeler gauges do yourself a favour and buy stainless, trust me, it's worth the extra munny.

The switches are junk.

I still use my thumbnail.

Alright @J.R., but I can categorically assure you that replacing console bushes with non-void bushes on the Fabia I is all killer and no filler, I've used Cupra rubber solids as well as PU and they're both great upgrades with no downsides. The OP needs to look elsewhere for the source of the vibration problem.

Steady on with the tartan rug brigade. Void bushes are designed to yield easily to promote understeer, manufacturers deem it safer with FWD cars to have such handling characteristics because most punters are terrible drivers who do stupid panicky things like braking mid-corner if it tightens up on them. There are those of us who don't run with the herd who don't like a rubbery front end and prefer more precision in our steering and handling. Driving isn't for everyone although everyone thinks they're good at it.

If it does it's not a big deal, it could well be that the DPF will not clear the subframe unless it's dropped to make room, try looking at the job with your eyeses.

It's utter nonsense caused by failing to understand how electricity actually works, armchair idiocy creating an urban myth.

Three cylinder engine can seize if the timing slips.

You can do exactly that, the heatsoak will not hurt the engine, you'll just feel the power fade when you start giving it the berries.

Don't forget there's a fuel temperature sensor as well that could have failed.

You can't really do anything except wait for the aircon guy to vacuum test it and find the leak(s).

More like a Vauxhall Spectrum that you're on about.

Have you had the car up in the air while running?

Sounds like you have a fuel leak somewhere under the car when it's running, that mileage is so terrible it must be pouring out somewhere because it would be smoking like a chimney if it were actually burning it!

Blimey, you could have a replacement part made using a free flowing sports cat for half that price.

I DID read what you wrote, which is why we're having this pointless, dumb, circular, semantic argument about your po-faced literalist response to my humourous comment about coming home to a real fire. I wish I hadn't read it but you quoted my joke and you sounded so butthurt about the excellence of your Vauxhall Speculum that you totally were indeed banging on about that I felt it incumbent upon me to point that you were being like a Spurs fanboy on a Gooners forum... ...and they all lived happily ever after. The End.

It's not, but a Skoda owners forum is hardly the place to start banging on about how brilliant other makes are.

If you've got the stuff then it's a very straightforward job as gearboxes go, just be careful of damaging the wiring loom where it passes close to the gearbox, make sure you've tied all the wiring up out of the way before removing the last couple of bolts and lowering the gearbox to the ground.