Breezy_Pete

Hope to have an opportunity tomorrow. Many thanks for your time and advice.

Good suggestion, thanks @Rheumy I should be able to gather some such data. Specified and actual boost, yeah? Anything else good to grab whilst I'm at it?

CBZB engine from 2012, with original turbo, odometer says 161k miles. Runs quietly and smoothly engine-wise. However, since acquired, the car feels a little less responsive than I might guess it ought to, and isn't as good on fuel economy as hoped. A neighbour with a lot of car experience mentioned at time of purchase that he'd be concerned about the turbo being worn out, on a small capacity TSI with that many miles. I acquired a secondhand turbo with far lower mileage (<60k I think), but didn't fancy swapping it in without some decent evidence of fault with the original. I think I found such evidence today, without much effort. With just 5 torx Tx30 screws removed from the heatshield, I could get it far enough out of the way to get to the linkage connection and carefully remove the C-clip to separate actuator rod and linkage. If you know what you're looking at, this video may demonstrate the problem reasonably well.20250927_150647.mp4 The potential replacement turbo has no such ovalling of the hole in the linkage, and less shaft waggle within the bush that takes it through the housing to the wastegate itself. Losing all that waggle should help turbo control quite a bit, right?

Lots of scope for cleaning! 😆

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Part number will begin with 5Q0 rather than 500, I believe. The connection to the radiator may be very stiff to remove, and require more force than expected. Wriggling it in rotation while pulling may help, obviously after releasing the wire clip fully first. It may be best to completely remove this wire clip to prevent it jumping back into its locking position while wrestling.

Excellent illustration of dry/cracked joints on the two connections just to the left of the pyre. Doubt that'll be repairable without some component replacement(s).

Nah. I had advisories for misting on the front shocks of my mk2 Golf for several consecutive years. Then I had a clean MOT, so I asked the tester, "what about the oil misting", to which he answered "all the oil's probably gone". 🤣 Was a few years back, mind.

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Judging by this page there are two different cover part numbers suiting two different filter housings: https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ/FAB/697/1/115/115065 Sounds like you have a mismatch?

Our Fabia turned 20 last December I think. Still does A to B admirably, and I really don't give that many effs at all what anyone else thinks of it.

Dashboard removal would suggest that an evaporator leak is suspected, or somehow confirmed. That is the bit that cools the air, and is indeed deep behind the dashboard.

I've come across cases where the earth to the switchpack is poor, but not completely 'gone'. Try lifting the switchpack out, and add another, good earth to the brown wire on pin 1 of the switchpack loom connector. See if anything changes. Other thing you could try if feeling adventurous is to disassemble that loom connector by defeating the latch and sliding the two halves (brown and black) apart. Then extract white/black and black/green wires and swap their positions so white/black is now on 4. That would effectively make the switches operate the opposite windows to what they did before. See if the problem moves to passenger side.

What year is the car? Mk2s had three different versions of window motor module through their years. I have an idea of an experiment to try, but it wouldn't be relevant for the earliest version.

Just use de-ionised water unless the level is waaaay low.

You can download all the circuits for any Skoda model at erWin Skoda.

Would almost certainly start leaking very noisily before getting so weak that it might fail completely though.

Wait until it fails an MOT, or starts to sound horribly loud. They can look terrible but still be operationally fine. Aftermarket units will be rather tin foil-like in comparison, I'd expect. New genuine back box appears to be around £250 inc VAT, but would need VIN to confirm. If it ain't broke...

Please do report back with anything that might assist others in future, especially if you find an aftermarket supplier of correct, RHD parts. I suspect a lot of mk1 owners are in the even worse position of not even genuine replacements being available any more.

I doubt this image will help much for two reasons; it'll depict a LHD system, so you'd have to mentally mirror the rack to get an idea, and the hose images won't match RHD reality, too short for a start, I'd think. These diagrams tend to be a bit generic too, so even a LHD hose of the respective part number (will start 6R1 instead of 6R2, N.B.) may not resemble the sketch exactly. Most aftermarket stuff is likely to be made for the majority LHD market, and so will match 6R1 parts, not 6R2.

No idea about aftermarket, sorry. Autodoc can be a useful research tool in that respect. Find your nearest scrapyard.

"Expansion hose" for that VIN was 6R2 423 893, but superseded by 6R2 423 893E (RRP currently £295 + VAT) "Return hose " was 6R2 423 891D, now superseded by 6R2 423 891E (£89.50 + VAT) So that's £460-ish for parts alone, including VAT, for both genuine. I guess you'll try to find better condition secondhand? I wouldn't bother changing the return hose until it gives trouble, to be honest.

Partslink24 doesn't seem to recognise that VIN, is that your VIN? If not, what is yours?

Your car probably has an ABS module without that functionality.

Reg or VIN would get me to the best info efficiently.