Hi guys,

more for information for fellow Fabia owners, really....

I have a 57 reg fabia, which i took to get a service in March. It was my first service, as it reached 10,000 miles and they lowered the handbrake (if i knew it was too high, i would have got them to lower it when I bought it from the Skoda dealer!) and changed the air filter etc...

A month later I got a light up on the dashboard - for the control system for the exhaust.... i took it to a garage, who couldnt find the fault, so took it to a Skoda dealer. It took them 3 days to find the fault - the new filter that was replaced was the wrong one - apparently Skoda changed their filter from 2-bar to 3-bar (means nothing to me!) and Skoda said it was in tiny writing, they didnt know until I came to them (this was only a couple of months ago when I finally got it sorted!)

So if your control exhaust system light comes up after a service, then its possibly a wrong filter change. The original garage said they knew nothing about them changing it - cant be the only one!

So i paid £200 for the original service and then another £200 for the diagnostics and filter replacement.... (got £200 back from original garage eventually though!) so something you guys should be wary of. This isnt small money!

Sounds like BS to me.

Air filter isnt due for changing until 40,000 miles.

thanks for sharing.

£200 for a first service sounds a lot to me.

Hmmm is that variable servicing? I thought they had to be done every year or x miles whichever came first...

just asking out of curiosity, not saying its wrong

Nope, every 40K is right - but personally I do mine every (variable) service as IMO 40K is too long.

Sounds strange.

If the "Exhaust Workshop" warning appears it is probably something with the exhaust system. It will mainly be about the DPF and in particular the differential pressure sensors. The filters almost never fail now days. I've had a sensor replaced under warranty myself.