Well, It's happened again. It never rains but it pours!

Took the skip to Awesome GTI on Monday for servicing and a few other bits. Car felt very good afterwards.

Less than 24 hours off of the ramps and the starter motor has packed up! had to bump start the car and drive it to a local garage last night.. I am collecting tomorrow.

After collection tomorrow I will have spent £850 in that last two weeks on servicing and fixing the car!

SWMBO has been on at me to 'sell it before it turns into a bigger money pit than it already is.' MOT is due in march and i think it will probably need new front tyres at the very least.

I am seriously F u c k e d off.

It might be an idea not to make too big a thing of the mechanical problems if you want to sell it. It’s a well known car and if anyone reads this thread you might have a job shifting it. Naturally I am thinking of none Brisky peeps, as you would be very honest with them.

It might be an idea not to make too big a thing of the mechanical problems if you want to sell it. It’s a well known car and if anyone reads this thread you might have a job shifting it. Naturally I am thinking of none Brisky peeps, as you would be very honest with them.

Thanks for the advice Amanda but I'm not gonna sell it no matter what SWMBO says.

TBH I would be completely honest with anyone about any mechanical problems if I was selling it. So far it would only be positive anyway as i've paid for them all fixing with genuine VAG parts. Any potential buyer would not have to worry about any problems in those fairly common 'fail' areas for quite a few years to come.

Either way it £850 in the couple of weeks before christmas is no good to anyone I think you'll agree. That sort of money could have bought me a clutch that could actually handle the torque out put of the engine or maybe a traction control system or a LSD. These were all possibilities on my list to father christmas but don't think he'll be delivering them now somehow.

my starter stopped working last Christmas in the cold so I whacked it with a hammer alls been good since, expecting some more banging this Christmas.

Thanks for the advice Amanda but I'm not gonna sell it no matter what SWMBO says.

TBH I would be completely honest with anyone about any mechanical problems if I was selling it. So far it would only be positive anyway as i've paid for them all fixing with genuine VAG parts. Any potential buyer would not have to worry about any problems in those fairly common 'fail' areas for quite a few years to come.

Either way it £850 in the couple of weeks before christmas is no good to anyone I think you'll agree. That sort of money could have bought me a clutch that could actually handle the torque out put of the engine or maybe a traction control system or a LSD. These were all possibilities on my list to father christmas but don't think he'll be delivering them now somehow.

I have had a brief drive of your car and was very impressed with how easily the engine picked up. But I guess there is no such thing as a free lunch and when you tune a car up to the point that yours is at, things will tend to go pop or struggle with the power/torque sadly. Still it is probably cheaper than buying something that quick as standard and it’s a lot rarer too

I have had a brief drive of your car and was very impressed with how easily the engine picked up. But I guess there is no such thing as a free lunch and when you tune a car up to the point that yours is at, things will tend to go pop or struggle with the power/torque sadly. Still it is probably cheaper than buying something that quick as standard and it’s a lot rarer too

Thanks.

TBH I'm not suprised about the starter motor giving up as it takes some serious hammer with the bigger injectors. I think just the fact that a few things have all happened at once is what is so frustrating.

Starter motor breaking is not a common occurrence, so sounds unlucky. Definitely never had an issue with mine.

The other thing is that just because a few things have broken, it doesn't mean other stuff will. To some degree, you have to expect a few things to fail as the car ages, but balance that against the performance you have and the lower depreciation. Owning a car is never cheap .

Starter motor breaking is not a common occurrence, so sounds unlucky. Definitely never had an issue with mine.

According to garage and AA mechanic this is a common enough problem across the VAG range. AA mechanic had been out to 2 VW's (a golf and a passat) on the same day he came out to me that both had had their starter motor give up.

Although the AA mechanic did comment that it was the first time he had ever been out to assist a Fabia vRS before! (maybe he'd only been on the job for a month or two? )

Take from that what you will Jason.

Think the starter motor is more common on the Octavias for failing.

Both my Octavias i've owned, i've had to replace the starter.

Sounds like you've just been unlucky i'm afraid.

But these things happen. :(

Skip is back home now and in fine fettle.

Just pressing that accelerator down hard on the way home reminds me why I bought this car and makes the money spent all seem worth while

Glad its all up and running.

So what did it make on the rollers at Awesome ?

Ah well, it happens I suppose. Just sod's law it's this time of year!

Glad everything's sorted now anyway. And indeed - what figures did you manage?

Steve

A very disappointing 215bhp (first run was as low as 195bhp) and 373lbs (lowest was 350lbs). I expected a lot more.

I think that the guy who dyno'd it didn't do a very good job as looking at the graph it looks like he was slipping the clutch all over the place. Bearing in mind that 195bhp is over a whopping 20% loss in power output compared to some of the dyno runs this car has done. Not happy with the results and have said the very same to Sarah at Awesome.

I have owned and driven many other cars at around the 170 - 200bhp mark and I can honestly say this car is pushing out a hell of a lot more than these most recent figures suggest.

what clutch is fitted?

what clutch is fitted?

Sachs sintered racing paddle clutch rated to 360lbs.