ricardo_smooth

yup

The main reason people get stuck!!! that and sitting there smashing the accelerator through the floor!

It's not the best solution to just have 2. However all this along the lines of your car bursting into a raging inferno should you dare mix the two is no more than over the top posting(as is the raging inferno bit before anyone wants to pick a fight as I don't). Yes there is more chance of the back end breaking away with summer tyres still on the back for obvious reasons. However if you can only afford 2 then get 2 rather than none as they do offer a significant advantage in 'getting the ball rolling' so to speak. After all people shouldn't be hooning around in the snow anyway so just be careful as you normally would. My mum's Leon Fr only had front snow tyres on last year and I only had one instance of the back end breaking away on a minor snow covered roundabout (managed to catch it). But I was in a bit of a kerfuffle seen as my dad had just had a heart attack and I was having to drive to London to pick him up so wasn't thinking as much as usual. If you can afford 4 though then of course get 4.

Think he means the main fuse panel in the side of the dash...

just fitted the 7M0 parts this morning, spot on, no difference in handbrake feel and fitted by hand in a matter of 30 seconds per side!

rings themselves aren't pricey. it's the labour of taking the engine out and dismantling/refitting of th ebottom end that ill cost you, plus new HG,bolts ect and if the cambelt is due ou may as well do that while you have to take it off anyway. so yeah take the lube out for payment if it is the rings :(

3 selector cables pop onto the box iirc

1)Mk1 Red Clio 1.2 2) MK1 Blue Clio 1.2 williams replica 3) Mk1 Black Clio 1.8 16v 4) Mk3 Silver Ibiza Cupra 5) Mk1 Black Fabia VRS Derv ftw!

it will be a fuse. you just have to find it. have you checked the fuse again as you may find that some wires may have touched behind the head unit when its been re-installed. and sounds daft but you're replacing the fuse without any power to the car yeah? (i've done it myself without like a fool and it just popped it again)

know how you feel mate, mine let me down one and we are lucky enough to not have any snow so went out the next day to get a new battery as I won't leave it to chance if I can help it. If you are managing to get by I reckon you can't do much more than hold out and take it to the battery place to save having to send back a battery thats too big and if you still can't get the cover off i'm sure the place will fit it for a small fee if they are like most places

I managed to get mine up by lifting the left hand side as you look at it whilst pushing the tabs in with my fingers (given it hurt like feck when i did it) it popped up eventually but it is an uncomfortable amount of force you have to use

no specialist car battery shops near you? best bet taking it to them and saying 'eeeer replace this pal but not with the old spec listed battery as no bugger lists one for the newer engine!' either that or search for a different car that shares the same setup (do ibizas/polos have the same engine i wonder).

so ultimately you did the right thing mate, just a shame your wallet doesn't think so

bad times!

you can buy a repair kit from ebay but a new regulator from euro car parts isn't expensive and comes with the pressed metal section too, easier if yours are bolted in but i reckon by 07 it will be riveted in?

wow. stupidity has no bounds!

I really should read things poperly. I do have the older battery type (04 plate) sorry dude. And FYI vrssunroof alarm doesn't sound and I did mine positive off first, then neg. Then neg on first. Pos on last for refit.

I bought a varta battery yesterday rated at 74ah (biggest one that fits in the OE jacket ect without issue) couldn't tell you the dimesions if you had a gun to my head though! and I paid waaaay under trade price as my old man knows the battery shop man I think its this one though http://www.carbatteryshop.co.uk/i-Type-096R-Varta-Blue-Dynamic-Car-Battery-12V-74Ah-Short-Code-E12-Varta-DIN-574-013-068-I3196.html comes up when you search for fabia battery anyway

you should be out xmas day fitting it! it's the law!

is this not the car in the other thread 'clutch biting point'?

just clear the code, means someone has ad the battery disconnected at some point most likely.

mines same and it's only had a clutch 2 months ago as they clutches are self adjusting hydraulic clutches and will bite in the same place until it can't adjust out anymore, then it will start slipping. mine was fine when i bought it or so it seemed, 3 months later it was slipping. but hey ho can't complain, it happens.

yes you have! and then you need to sell me your standard one cheap as some thieving scrote nicked mine the other night!!

search searcy people, common thread. mine popped off t'other day and mine was engine bay one

mine had done 103k so i suppose i'm in a much further down the line condition of wear. I'd hedge my bets at 65k and say it should be ok but i'd certainly want it checking as if it's knackered it's all gotta come back out!