Hi just introducing myself have just bought a skoda fabia 1.4 mpi classic registered year 2000 (125.00 road tax ) 37,000 miles 1 owner full service history etc

its in very nice condition unfortunately its in red so just gotta keep ahead of the fade with plenty t cut and wax

had it a week and so far only 2 problems

1 the after market sunroof leaks through the switch directly down my neck as i turn right but the main agent i purchased the car from said they would replace it under warranty so its no longer a problem

2 unusually as i was driving down the road there was a ker pling noise and then the sort of sound you would get if you forgot to take your favourite spanner out of your pocket before machine washing your overalls, and i found part of the suspension coil spring in the middle of the street when i stopped to assess the problem (well the guy walking his dog 50 yds behind me did, " oi mate is this off your car, it nearly hit my f***n dog !! " .. oops )

Is this a common thing, it was just like the top of the spring and it seems to drive ok for now (they are also replacing the spring under warranty )

the reason i ask is that when i went to the skoda garage with the bit of spring in hand, i wasnt sure if it was off my car, or if i had just run over it with my car and it had bounced around underneath a bit, which is what i told them,

so i asked them to just have a look see if they could tell, and the mechanic just had a look at the bit of spring in my hand and said, yeah thats off a skoda and ordered the part without even coming out to check the car, i mean is it that common or is the guy just psychic or something,

the car had been serviced by them at 35,000 miles and mot'd the week before as they put a 12 month mot on it when i bought it from them.

the other thing is a slightly intermittent misfire type thing on tickover which i mentioned but i was looking on the net the other day and it is apparently very common on this engine, the skoda mechanic says that its something to do with the box that controls the timing etc apparently if the sensor detects that the emissions is going over it misses the odd beat to compensate and keep the levels low ??? it sort of makes sense as an explanation for why nothing changes if you change the air filter plugs and leads etc but on the other hand it sort of seems a little fishy or as my grandad would have said theres a faint scent of B/S about the flowers lad

Edited 22 July, 201015 yr by puddlehopper

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