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MK1 Fabia workshop manuals - SKODA Fabia - BRISKODA Click 'Download this file' then the second pdf link in the list.

That's not a valid VIN for a mk1 Fabia. Look through the windscreen from outside just by passenger side wiper, it's visible there.

Depends on refrigerant pressure when A/C is on. In cold ambient temps this will not necessarily approach the threshold for fan activity.

Coolant temperature is usually sensed close to the radiator outlet in the context of fan activation. On cars with traditional radiator-mounted thermoswitches the first (low) speed operation tends to be at about 95/96C at that point. For the coolant temperature to be that high at the outlet, it will obviously need to be even hotter at the radiator inlet or engine head. Not sure if your car has this type of thermoswitch, or a sensor in an adjacent hose. Probably the latter.

Part numbers can be found here: https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ

Generally it's a single pump that does front or rear washers depending on polarity of power to it.

Ours (1.2 petrol) is on 199k in a few miles, but the engine currently in it has done a lot fewer miles.

HTP has a timing chain and that's expensive to change. You'd want to be very sure it is causing a significant problem before spending several hundred on that. Auxiliary belt can be inspected fairly easily for obvious major degradation, but quite cheap and easy to change if it does look very rough. Photograph the belt path first though, easy to put new one on wrong if you haven't got a reference to look at.

It's quite likely to be burned out relay contacts within the BCM, I think. It may be possible to replace this relay if you can get into the unit, identify the relay, buy a replacement, and have the necessary desoldering/soldering equipment and skills.

Yep, not til 1st July 2008, see pic below: Try to find a polite way of telling the tester to read his manual.

Could be early enough that the glow plug light doubles as an EML. I may be able to check via circuits in a bit. VIN may be handy. I'm also reasonably sure that a diesel of this age doesn't need its EML or equivalent checked at MOT. Will check that too.

Petrol engines can be very quiet.

There may an adaptation you can change with VCDS, but not sure which module it would be in.

If I were you I'd fight quite hard to avoid this hefty, undeserved bill.

There isn't just one pdf that covers that time span, there are 3 I think. Two of them can be downloaded via the links here: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/files/file/76-mk1-fabia-workshop-manuals/

@Vanessa Fit a fuse in position 41 and see if it starts working again? 30 Amp is the correct rating @spig212 just because you can hear the relay operate doesn't mean that it is conducting. The contacts may be burnt out.

Very unlikely to be any unused wiring, I'm afraid.

You make your living servicing and repairing cars @Murdockman, right?

I guess you have this info?

What's under that third blank grommet, below those two?

What about the light clusters, that's what I'd suspect?

Yes that's the drain, more or less directly out of the bottom of the box the aircon evaporator lives in. Here's the view with whole thing out of car: To see if it's blocked, run the A/C on a warm humid day and see if water comes out.... May have to wait a few months.

The SK1 or SK4 number doesn't actually get printed anywhere on the motor, the SK240DDRS you're possibly seeing on the part number labels is the same on both versions I think, which are interchangeable anyway. The vital thing is that the main part number is exactly the same 6Y2959802 (for RHD later mk1 Fabia). 6Q2...ones won't work either. Anything without both of those 2's is not a suitable unit, no matter what an ebay seller may claim. Also beware of any that have that 6Y2959802 part number, but say VW240DDLS on the bottom line of the part number label, they're from LHD Polo, which also won't work correctly.

Yes, wrong filter being supplied by Bosch under the correct part number, apparently. Was it from ECP? If so please make them aware that there is this problem.

Engines have sophisticated built-in oil separators for the last couple of decades.