Hello, my name is Gary, I am 14 and i just joined Briskoda today. Just recently, i got a Skoda Felicia 1997, and i think its a GLS or GLX or something like that. (i cant check cos im at my grannies)

Its a 1.3 MPI, but i dont know if its the 40kw or the 50kw, can someone tell me how i can tell!?:confused:

:)Look at the engine code just above the water pump. 135M is 40kw, 136M is 50kw.

Will do daverapid! Thanks

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Hang on... your 14??!!

Hello, my name is Gary, I am 14 and i just joined Briskoda today. Just recently, i got a Skoda Felicia 1997, and i think its a GLS or GLX or something like that. (i cant check cos im at my grannies)

Its a 1.3 MPI, but i dont know if its the 40kw or the 50kw, can someone tell me how i can tell!?:confused:

Auto testing? Junior rallying? Farm runabout? Good luck to you whatever the car's for!

Yeah, it was bought for me by my dad for £70!!! ive been driving since i was about 10, and this is my second car. i drive about in the fields and up and down our track leading to my house. im currently teaching my older brother to drive whos 15(hes crap at driving, he almost crashed my poor Felicia)!!!

If you enjoy messing around with handbrake turns etc in fields, look at getting in to autotesting - Autotesting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - it's good fun, cheap to compete in and a good way of developing driving "skills"

Thanks Yegnold, i will look into it and see if i can do one!!!

14 and teaching the older brother to drive?

Was there a freaky friday and you changed places with your Mum or Dad

The L had the 40KW engine and LXI above have the 50KW 1.3 engine.

If its the GLXi or SLXi its the 1.6 engine

GLi is the 1.9D unit

Yeah, i know, he CAN drive, but just, well not very well! my mum too scared to teach him, and my dad works off shore, and when he's home hes too busy. The only reason i'm better than driving than him is cos i drive ALL the time.

I'm only 14 (dont worry, you wont see me on the roads, just in fields) and i was wondering whether my Felicia 1.3mpi 1997, is the 40Kw( 54bhp) or the 50Kw (68bhp)? I THINK it isa GLi, all i do know is it is pretty low down in the range, with no electric anything really, or no foglights or alloys (although it does have a manual sunroof!)

Is there any way of knowing what engine it is?(i heard something about looking at the water pump for a code or something but im not sure:confused:)

Please help me!!!:(

http://briskoda.net/favorit-felicia-fun-forman/40kw-50kw/126390/

:)I told you last time you asked!

Cool, but i couldn't find the code! Where abouts is it!

Threads merged.

Mine is a GLX, i though it was a 1.3, was i wrong ?

I'm only 14 (dont worry, you wont see me on the roads, just in fields) and i was wondering whether my Felicia 1.3mpi 1997, is the 40Kw( 54bhp) or the 50Kw (68bhp)? I THINK it isa GLi, all i do know is it is pretty low down in the range, with no electric anything really, or no foglights or alloys (although it does have a manual sunroof!)

Is there any way of knowing what engine it is?(i heard something about looking at the water pump for a code or something but im not sure:confused:)

Please help me!!!:(

If it is the GLi then it is the 50W I have a 1998 1.3 Felicia GLi and it is 50W so I would expect yours to be the same.

Good to hear that you are driving off road with your motor though, thats how I got started driving when I was 12 me and my mate would set up courses around his parents farm. He had a old Astra and a old 4 X 4 Suzuki thing that his dad who was a mechanic/welder set up with a roll cage in it. Good job as well as my mate managed to roll it once.

It's not on the waterpump mate, it's stamped into the engine block near to the waterpump. You might need a magnifying glass and a torch to see it, it's not immediately obvious.

Cool, ill hav a look 2morro, cos its in the shed cos the front right suspension is broken! It was digging into the tyre so just as well i saw it before it popped!!!

Anyway Gorrila, I have a Suzuki 4x4 aswell! I started drivin when i was 10, but i was tiny(still am!) so i had wood on the pedals and pillows on the seat!

I think you've got a collapsed RHF strut. There's a sticky post about those at the top of the forum, originally written by a VW mechanic.

Thanks, it is the spring platform or 'cup' that corroded away! it seems its a common problem. will i need a whole new shock or just weld on a new platform? it doesnt hav 2 be perfect because i doesnt get used in the roads. the platform is actually diggin away at the tyre so its totally not safe to drive it cos itll pop!

I like this thread! A 14 year old who knows how to drive, how to recognise a rusty and broken damper and who is versed in both txtspk and the Queen's English (well, at least better than many other members). Pleasant addition to the grumpy old men of the Club Felicia Future brightens.

Ideally, you should replace both front struts, not least because the oher one's probably not far from breaking too.

I'm not sure if you can get new platforms, but you'd have to take the damper inserts out before welding, or risk blowing the damper rods across the workshop when the oil boils and catches light. I'd talk to our new site sponsor Jorily about the best/cheapest way to fix.

From the address, I'm guessing you live on a farm, and actually have reasonable workshop facilities? At a minimum you're looking at a half inch socket set, spring compressors, probably a big bench vice, a big Stilson and a welder if you're going to be welding spring cups yourself.

Also, as Swedish say,s it's a pleasure to deal with someone young who actually communicates in English. Again I'm guessing, but you speak Doric too?

Well i do speak doric! Anyway, i wont have to worry about any of that, cos my dads generously found a pair of new shocks on ebay that'll fit my Feli! I cleaned it out today and found £1.51! not much i know but that means extra lunch this week at school!

And KenONeill, we do have all that things like the spring compressors, cos Dad needed them cos he recently changed the shocks in his Subaru Forester. Everyone here seems to be really nice and helpful, so thank you all!

Yeah, it's just that your location looks like an Aberdeenshire or Moray coast farm name!

Check out the Scottish meets forum too; there's even a "meet the members" thread on it.

Thanks, ONeil, i just added myself to that forum!