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Yes, noticed that they looked a bit tired when I jacked the car up- black shiny rubber visible on the outer edge.

Tyres are in good condition thanks. Which suspension rubbers are the most likely to wear?

My wife has noted that the handling of her 2009 fabia with 66000 miles appears to be deteriorating - tending to go on in a straight line at corners. Checked the rear suspension all looks ok, shocks not leaking and equal resistance when pushing and pulling the bottom of the shock. Front suspension all OK too. I was wondering if the shock internals wear with Time? Not sure how else to check them? Any other ideas?

Had the common issue - rear seat pull release becoming detached from the catch. Fortunately had only come out of the hole. Decided to try and prevent it happening again and wrapped a cable tie around one of the prongs ( in retrospect it may be better to put one on each so as to not stress the single prong). Here are before and after photos.

So my daughter's dog has chewed through the drivers side seat belt, so i need to replace. Does anyone know the part number and / or whether the Fabia seat belts are common with those on any other VW group cars? Just so i know which cars to look out for on my next trip to the scrap yard.

Here's the picture - for some reason it didn't attach

Fitted DRL lights to my wife's Fabia this weekend. Pleased with the results. https://www.auto-lighting.co.uk/product-eng-6197-High-Quality-DRL-Daytime-Running-Lights-4-LED-CREE-12-24V-HQ-V33.html

i don't have a photo of the back of the radio, but most modern units have two power wires, usually red and yellow. One is for a permanent live, the other for the ignition switched feed, i.e. Only live when the ignition is on. You need to check the instructions for the unit you have to confirm which is which.

I used a standard blade connector to connect into a spare fuse way.

I did get round this - I identified a switched live on the fuse board which wasn't used ( possibly for the heated seats?) and put an inline fuse and connected this to the radio. Works fine.

Hi, I'm replacing the Dance unit in my wife's Fabia 2 with a Pioneer DAB / Bluetooth radio. I've got all the wiring loom bits including a connect2 conversion lead. Looking at the label on the back of the Dance unit, and having tested the pins, there doesn't appear to be a switched live to the plug ( both the positive supplies are red and permanently supplied). I've read that on the Dance unit this may be achieved via the bus lead which obviously won't work on the pioneer unit. Is this correct, and if so how have others got round this? Thanks.

Just to finish this thread, a week later and all is ok, so it would appear to have been the lambda sensor as identified by the OBD codes. Just glad i had the kit to read and reset the codes ( bought originally so that i could reset the service code on my Octavia) , not sure how anyone without an OBD reader could have identified this fault. Thanks for all the help and advice. Now, back to simpler things and my '68 Morris Minor - no computer or OBD codes, but an awful lot more rust!!!!

The first one I got had the grey grease, but the Denso one came with a sachet of what looks like copper grease, but I must admit I haven't looked at it closely. However you only put a very light smear on the threads, so it shouldn't get anywhere near the cat.

So, update, I've sourced a Denso lambda sensor from eurocarparts - the Denso one they supply is DOX-1707, and has the correct plug etc. When taking taking the old sensor out ( 22mm spanner) it was tight and I had to ease it out ( half turn out, quarter back, half out etc.) and when i got it out, the bottom two threads were burnt, hence why it was tight. New sensor comes with copper grease, so anyone reinstalling a used sensor should use copper grease sparingly on the threads. All fitted, OBD codes reset, and so far so good, so this appears to have sorted the problem. Thanks for all the help.

Thanks, I've got the original sensor out, part number is 03E 906 262B, which equates to Denso DOX-0121 or DOX-1707, so I'll check against the one I collect tomorrow ( unfortunately the europarts website doesn't recognise the skoda part number).