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Welcome to the forum. No idea, and the people that should are the supplying dealer. Ask there for an answer that they can honestly give, and if that is 'not a clue; that will be that. I will flag for a mod to move this to the Fabia Mk4 section, there might be others waiting on orders.

Are you sure it is a 3 cylinder 1.2? Not a 1.0TSI ? & With a GPF. The Spark Plugs were due replacing at 4 years / 40,000 miles. The early demise of spark plugs can cause the demise of Ignition coils. There have been 1.0 TSI spark pugs not lasting long. Threads in the Fabia Mk3 section. Was it Henrys that serviced it and ignored the spark plug schedule? Dirty Spark plugs are odd, did the RAC Responder check the gap of the spark plugs? Or just say they were dirty.

@wookie67070 When work is needed i recommend. http://autohausedinburgh.co.uk

@nta16 The Electric Corsa i had for 3 years had the Discs replaced twice. That was really from lack of use as no need to use the brakes other than each time to try and take the surface rust off them. *Not lack of miles covered because that was high.*. Not easy to clean off braking with a e-brake for the rears, and not easy with the fronts because as soon as you touched them even a little the car came to a stop if you tried rolling down a hill.

Scotland is supposed to be paying more for the trees so that RoUK gets less pollution. Costs really need to be highest where the population is really and not where there is 1/3 of the land mass yet less than 10% of the population. http://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj7vz8vjgrno The taxing of the Oil & Gas companies n the Northsea should have the money there for the costs towards Net Zero. As should the income from the electricity exported from the from Scotland to RofUK and the more that could be exported but that the Westminster Government keep putting delays on this happening.

@Graham Butcher Scoring like that is not uncommon oop north. Gritting done with more grit than salt can be the cause.

Maybe not in Chelmsford but all around the UK there is building on Green belt land / farm land / Countryside rather than on Brown Field sites, then those that get these homes / properties have issues with Solar Farms or battery storage or pylons to provide power to these properties. Funny how they can not see the wood for the trees, or the trees no longer there. Happily they will have the Electricity generated hundreds of miles away and they want the electricity they use to arrive underground. & They will want a cheap tariffs.

^^^ Are you having a laugh. It is not all about you and your food choices, or fuels for your car or home. Or England. The country has so many Slipper Farmers. KC3 and other Royals, NT, and many syndicates. They get billions to not produce food. People are growing crops for burning in Bio-mass, or for other products non edible. As to in Solar Farms, there can be Free Ranch Chickens. Turkeys even. Yes i see the farmers on the news, Fuel costs, Super Markets ripping them off, the Government treating them badly. PS Water Companies in the South should maybe be investing not only in the Water but generating the electricity to run their facilities. More Wind and Solar on the large areas that they already have the control over.

@Graham Butcher Was it productive arable farm land before the Solar Farm went up? What is under them, bare earth, weeds, or is it maybe grass? Are there no sheep down your way? Lots of land owners in the UK / England are paid not to farm land. Get the wild flowers growing under the Solar panels and habitats for many many creatures.

The Schedule on the VAQ was and might still be 3 years / 30,000 miles, but it is now at 2 years on a Mk4,s seemingly.

@WaveyDavey Does your car have a VAQ diff (front), and if so was it serviced at 3 years / 30,000 miles?

Taken from a TPS website and posted many many times by me. Just incase anyone looks here and then wants to check on their car with a Cam Belt i will put this here. They still need to check for their particular engines though. TSI, TSI ACT or a TDI. Cam Belt Guidance change.pdf

Be sure that the Filter is being replaced with a DQ381.

@WaveyDavey What car /engine do you have with a DQ200 DSG? A DQ200 DSG has no Service Schedule, Guidelines, Recommendation or Spec for oil changes. Just saying so people do not get the wrong end of a long stick.

£920 is an OK price on a 1.5 TSI ACT for the time / labour and Original Parts used and 2 year warranty including labour when at an Approved Repairer. (That does not include a water pump.) Cheaper prices elsewhere might not be OEM parts or places quoting on a 1.5 TSI ACT and just on a 1.5 TSI. Some might not only not have 'All the gear' but also 'No idea'.

Cam Belt Guidance change (1).pdf

@Stonekeeper That would be very useful if we had the numbers up to next week and the end of 2 quarters since that figure. Anyway the delivered 200,000 supposedly.

Good, makes sense. What has the 140,000 miles to do with things though? That is not a mileage Skoda changed to last July when they changed their Advice, Recommendation or Guidelines. The guy on the service desk might not have heard of issues with tensioners either. We do not know him or who he listens to, or how closely he follows stuff in the VW Group or outwith his work place.

An article popped up on my phone. 'One-in-five-pure-electric-vehicles on UK roads is a Tesla.' 200,000 Tesla delivered to UK customers in 10 years. (They will not all be on UK roads, there will be scrapped and exported, but it will be near enough if the DVLA can actually say how many registered in the UK, doubt they know how many in the UK though.)

Timing chain. But someone else can maybe confirm. (& If it had been a Cam Belt best not assume that it is every 5 years, because VW / Skoda dropped that in the Non-Dust UK last year for TSI,s.) As to the DSG, if a DQ381 7 speed wet clutch the Service Schedule is at 80,000 miles. You might want to think on that being done sooner. & correctly.

@Stonekeeper Indeed, Peoples lungs will be the same though. Glasgow Council could not even get their own act together and have compliant vehicles leased or bought in time so that they did not need to hire ones. The issue is that people get incompetents running things, and they always will.

What seems wrong is that you can just pay up and take in the supposedly more polluting vehicles. That is rather different from Glasgow where what you pay is a fine, not a toll charge.

And? Vote in a Tory Mayor and people can fill their lungs with what ever. You do not have a Vote for a London Mayor though do you? How is Vicky Ford MP doing in your region with getting pot holes filled and reducing congestion, maybe getting more EV public charging?

@Graham Butcher What do you want, or others against the ULEZ, just to moan, or to just let their be more emissions or pollution in London?