Hi Everyone!

My ride is a 1994 Favorit Blackline. I call it the 'Junkyard Find', just because I bought it from a Skoda parts dealer/wrecker. Two years ago it cost me around €800 (to put that in perspective: a bad Golf MkI or a really bad Golf Mk3 cost that much). The previous owner ha the front suspension rebuilt with new bushings, brakes, struts, bearings. After that he noticed some fairly bad rust around the shock towers, and after getting a quote he decided to instead finance a new Fabia. For whatever reason he didn't want to sell the old girl, so it spent a year sitting, then he took it to the wreckers. I spotted it there, almost complete, only the alloys were missing. It had power locks, front power windows, sunroof, 'intelligent' intermittent wipers, tinted glass. I got the chassis rust fixed for about €150, sprayed it over with etch primer and 3 layers of rattlecan black. I couldn't find the original wheels for it, so instead the 13's it is now sitting on 14" alloys (same 5-spoke Ronal, just bigger) IMHO it even looks better with the skinnier tires (175/60).

When I bought it, it had MOT for a year, 75k on the clock. Since the two years it is now up to 97k, I had to replace the exhaust system from the cat back, and a lots of blown bulbs in the switches were replaced with green LEDs. I swapped the factory 'glow-wire' indicator relay for the semiconductor-controlled one from a Felicia (standard 3-prong Bosch). The car also has Felicia seating now.

The car missed the factory Blaupunkt stereo (I didn't), it now has a Grundig Skoda MS202 from a Fabia in it, - very nice sound.

Current project is to fit the injector from a Felicia 1.3 to it (for the love of god I couldn't figure out how they managed to sell the carb version, but nonetheless, they could...) It is nearing completion, but I will ask a fairly big question in the tech section, I suspect (_very_ rough idle).

As for myself, not a wrench monkey, but I know my way around them, much better with electronics (I used to sell custom electronic ignition modules for a living, and I can still repair stuff the friends bring over "It stopped with smoke pouring out so I fitted a bigger fuse..." As for now I work for a telco company as a linux systems specialist.

Greetings from Hungary!

Hello and welcome to Briskoda :wavey:

welcome

Welcome. Very nice introduction

Hello! :wave23d:

Hiya. That's one of the best intros I've seen in a while.

Czeck out the Favorit, Felicia et al section for pretty much everything you ever knew, didn't know, forgot etc about these cars, including standard carbs, how to source a better replacement. fuel injection conversions...

Almost forgot to post pictures. This was about a year ago on a trip to Slovakia for a few parts, and hey!

Found an estate version of my ride!

It even has the factory alloys and everything...

Mine is rolling on the standard Felicia rims with Favorit hubcaps, an awesome combination imho.

Will post pictures of the 14" alloys soon.

Edited 3 July, 200916 yr by tocsa135ls
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welcome to briskoda

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