So... Some of you may have seen my thread about my bad luck with my vrs... Got it all fixed and wad ready for a new start...

Unroll went to change a bulb, dropped metal clip. Spent 2 hours searching and removing engine tray... Still can't find it.

Drove off to find my steering light on and the steering go heavy again... Scanned with vagcom and it returned sensor problem... How much and where?

Then I got home and realised car was chucking out lovely blue smoke and I forgot to give the petrol stations torch back!

I love this realiability this VAG is giving me ATM :(

where's the love?

Craig

look like you have got a lemon,

i have driven mine every day since i got it now with 102,000 and its been fine ,

apart from the new turbo , sensors , bulbs, fuses,

Edited 14 December, 201015 yr by scottk18

Where's the love? I don't know.

I sympathise with the bit of you that's having your heart and wallet ripped out. My advice remains the same as it was before - ditch it. Someone has seriously abused that car from the sounds of it. And they've unloaded it onto you. Time to get tough and lie through your teeth.

I disagree but blue smoke is an indication of oil . .

Sensors aren't expensive of difficult to fix if it's just a plug kind of thing.

Could bodge it up and sell I guess. But there is the red vrs on pistonheads that has no service history and can't even fetch 36k.

You will also be selling private I guess. It won't take long for him to work out the problems. I would just crack on and get it fixed . . Seems to be the same problems over. Sure it's not the garage?

Ouch. Blue smoke after a new turbo?

I am using lots of oil. I put that down to the failing turbo seals.

Still need to get the turbo done but funds dont allow. Im thinking of just going down to unit 18 for th 1k 130 hyrbid, fitting, mapping and egr delete. Then see it run like 120 on the rollers haha!

Im thinking i may have just nudged the sensor as it seems fine now and theres no light. Enginetray is still off so will get i on a curb and see what i can find. Will also take the chance to fix the load signal wire.

Guess its one of those things when buying a used car. Dont fully know the risks untill you have it

Getting 2 proxes fitted to the front today, letting the polaks clean it. Fitting my new bulb and then MOT wednesday.

If all goes well. It will be a +tive again

Then january i can get new turbo etc and have my standard looking fabia hybridded ha. Sleeper style.

Gotta keep that chin up

Thanks for replies

And the way i see it. Will be like... 1k spent on the car now so if i sell for even what i brought it for i will be losing 1k. This is the last attempt though. Once turbos done etc. I will see. If anything else major goes wrong ill start bogding it to sell...

But shh :p

My sympathies, but show me a car that doesn't cost money. It's the sudden, unexpected expenses that are the b*gg*r. Over a lifetime I've spent thousands on cars. One thing I have never done though, is buy a new one. If you want to lose money big time, that's how to do it!

The money is gone now, i.e. it's a sunk cost. Look forward with a plan (which you seem to have) and eventually you will have a car that you know, trust and love.

My sympathies, but show me a car that doesn't cost money. It's the sudden, unexpected expenses that are the b*gg*r. Over a lifetime I've spent thousands on cars. One thing I have never done though, is buy a new one. If you want to lose money big time, that's how to do it!

The money is gone now, i.e. it's a sunk cost. Look forward with a plan (which you seem to have) and eventually you will have a car that you know, trust and love.

I like that. Didnt think about how much i would be losing via depriciation.

Most of the time these threads i make are just after the issues have happened Nice way to releieve some pressure

Just gotta decide on this turbo!

Been offered by turbo dynamics a new pd150 for £595. But they dont do exhanges anymore for my one...

Bit of a shame.

Such a hard decision haha. Also hoping my incar laptop charger cable comes today so i can do some bhp graphs etc via vagcom and see how it running

I had a petrol Fabia before my vRS... it was an early 1.4 100bhp.

My steering pump failed...

both front wheel bearings went,

the coolant sensor and fuel pump relay failed.

Somehow the radiator fan ate through the alternator load cable.

Console bushes failed which led to a sub frame re-build after accident damage was found to have been repaired wrong (something to do with not tightening the bolts up in the right order?).

I got so hacked off with it I sold it for less than it was worth because at the time we thought the ECU was playing up (that's when the fuel pump relay was duff)..

My Mechanic directed me to another of his customers who was after replacing their beat up Polo.. As far as I know it never missed a beat after the 9 months I'd owned it... which basically means I paid out for someone else to reap the benefits.

I guess what I'm getting at is that sometimes it's better the devil you know.. I sold up and bought my vRS which (knock on wood) has been fantastic despite me ramming it up a kerb!... but I was MUCH more selective when I bought my 2nd Fabia... got them all checked out by a mechanic before thinking of buying.

Edited 14 December, 201015 yr by Rob.

^^^^^ thats exactly what i am thinking. By the time you get it in a state to sell, it`ll have all the big bits done and someone else will enjoy it as a trouble free motor. As tough as it is i`d stick it out tbh.

It`s pretty clear the turbo is fooked, so get that sorted and go from there.

Matt