Breezy_Pete

AAA but that's just my eye for detail. It makes the appeal of a secondhand one of that part number quite a bit more... I was thinking of trying to look at the one in our 2012 Roomster, part number 1K8 951 605 B according to partslink24, but superseded by the part number shown above, 1K0951605F. It went off without obvious cause quite recently at home, though it was very windy at the time. Just bought one from Silverlake via ebay for £28 that appears to have a 2024 date code on it. 🙂

Has it ever been mis-fuelled with petrol, to your knowledge? How many miles done to date?

Roomster and mk2 Fabia are electronically the same as mk1 Fabia until about February 2010. VCDS lite was/is able to talk to their diagnostics system over k-line. From March 2010 full VCDS is needed. However, full VCDS will work with all of the above. As mentioned though, to do an autoscan you have to select chassis type (5J) manually. Often, a lack of comms with a module suggests a blown fuse, and ABS has a few. If you wish, I can tell you which fuses to check (will need VIN, message me with it).

@isetta I think for A you would ideally use VCDS to remove the alarm from the Gateway Installation List See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=txzhjGfTqqI For B, with all modules 'asleep' you should see around 20mA (0.02A) of quiescent current. If there's a flashing LED indicating deadlock active, you'll see that 20mA fluctuate up and down with the flashing. To get the car to the state where it is fully asleep you tend to need to leave it for around 30 minutes with no activity.

I'm not sure that there is an obvious fuse for the washer motor, it's fed directly by two pins of the BCM (7 & 8 of the 46-way connector).

Access pump connector (often via full or partial wheel arch liner removal, don't know for your specific model, others can advise). Check for voltage with one or other polarity depending on whether front or rear washing is being commanded by your assistant in cabin, with ignition on. If voltage is present, replace washer pump.

What year is the car Jim? I'll start a PM conversation with you.

Check for corrosion on the earth (brown wire) loom connector contacts or cluster pin that it goes onto, both rear clusters.

I could probably just hold the damper shafts (maybe with an assistant on the molegrips) cos the original dampers sre definitely not being re-used; but I quite like 'neat' workarounds rather than brutal ones.

Tool combination is for release of OE front struts. 21mm nut, 7mm hex orifice in the shaft of the damper, so hex key counterholds while spanner on the flats of the spark plug socket loosen the nut. The 'water box' metalwork overhangs the strut tops, so there's limited space above the nuts. More photos over the weekend, if plans work out...

Spritmonitor is saying 40mpg is about average, which sounds believable, given the age of most of these cars.

If I remember, I'll research Roomster 1.2 TSI real world consumption on spritmonitor.de over the weekend, for crowd sourced baseline. In completely different news, who knows what this tool combination does? (21mm socket normally for spark plugs, with important hex flats, and 7mm hex key shortened by about 25mm earlier this evening to fit under an obstruction).

Definitely has some of that, I had a look when the intake manifold was off for clearing of that completely blocked 'secret' PCV valve. Very hard to clean ports/valve backs in-situ I thought; so didn't even attempt. I don't think there are any other significant problems, it runs very smoothly and inaudibly at idle, hard to tell whether it is running from driver's seat, without looking at rpm. Turbo is known to have significant play in the actuator linkage (discussed earlier somewhere upthread), but I can only see that affecting transient conditions.

That's the kind of consumption I'd like to see, but with worse aero and some more weight (I guess?) Roomster is going to struggle to match Fabia, I expect

Had to borrow the Roomy to nip up to the Post Office earlier, and I refuelled it while I was out and about. It took 43 litres; 430 miles on the trip meter. Definitely better mpg (that is ~45mpg) following the cam angle correction. No idea what a 1.2TSI Roomster is supposed to do? Previously, it wasn't going much further than that on 50 litres.

Oil pressure warning as in red light? That, if genuinely triggered by low oil pressure, is an engine emergency. If I were you, getting the oil pressure, or pressure switch(es), checked would be extremely urgent.

There were three different versions of window motor during Roomster production, and one of the changeovers was in 2010, so need VIN to check part numbers if you don't want to take door card off to look. I'll message you so that you can reply to my message with VIN, then I can check for you. You don't yet have enough posts to initiate a PM conversation.

That is sufficient to explain engine damage, irrespective of oil choices.

@Cybermansrevenge Please see latest reply to your messages, important correction in there. Correct part number is 443 955 465 I think. (First attempt was headlight washer motor grommet instead)

Message me with your VIN, please.

I can't help on the labour cost, I don't have access to 'book' times.

03F 133 062 B ? RRP is £519 + VAT (so £622.80) for genuine part How much were you charged? (Part and labour) Is the problem even solved? What was the problem?

Still available genuine here, if not at dealership too. Uncheap though! https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ/FAB/453/6/609/609020

Silvery thing next to square chip.