Took my felly to my local Skoda dealers (who recently metamorphosed into a dm keith.) They said £78.80 or thereabouts to plug it in and run a diag. Is this normal? Seems a tad steep. Can "regular" garages do it or is the software limited distribution, dealers only. My local non-aligned garage said he could do a diag. for about £25.

assuming you can vagcom them, I'd say both prices are fairly steep.

Depends what's needed really.

Fellys are cheap and cheerful cars to maintain and they don't have complex electrics or a fly by wire throttle system like the Fabia.

Thankfully I dont have a problem with mine but my mechanic is good.

Dealer charges?

Even Parkside don't charge £80 for a look, they'll charge about £40 as will this garage my uncle uses and they have diag equipment to read fault computers.

I was going to say it's engine dependant.

The 1.3 is a simple unit so any good mechanic should be able to examine your Felly..

I probably sound like an old fart, but when I first take a look at an engine with a fault my first instinct is not always to plug it in to a diagnostic machine, especially with a car like the Felicia which is a fairly old, basic [and rather good!] design. We charge £39.50 per hour + VAT and would charge 1/2 hour for a basic check round the engine bay and plug in to the diagnostic machine.

What's your Felicia doing [or not doing]?

I just got charged £20 to have the scanner plugged in to our lasses fabia. Unfortunately the steering fault will only show up on the scanner when the warning light is on the dash, and it went out as i pulled in the yard

I don't think there's too much a diagnostic test can reveal on either the Bosch monomotronic or Simos 2p systems anyway? The Haynes manual mentions some things that can throw up error codes but Haynes seems overly confused on what you can and can't achieve with diagnostics.

Oh BTW I am guessing OP is referring to this problem described in their other thread here http://briskoda.net/favorit-felicia-fun-forman/back-square-one-help/123477/