After coming back from uni in my lovely shiny new vrs mk2, i decided to get the old 1.4 16v ready for its mot seeing as its the car i use more often back home as my mom nicks the vrs off me haha. well sadley it seemed winter took its revenge on my car, even though it was kept sheltered ish. (open garage thing)

i found the sidelights go after a few miles which i got down to replacing, took the covers off the lights and snap one of the securing clippy things had snapped off both of them taking them off, so how or where can i get a pair of backs for the front lights? (btw how difficult is it to replace whole headlights? i like the new angel eyes)

next of all i tryed the rear washer and low and behold its wiring but no water coming out even now its above freezing so im guessing the hose has poped off somewhere... anyone know where to look and how to fix?

finaly took it for the mot, meters from the test centre i here a clunk, thought nothing much of it until i was phoned by the centre to say my rear spring on the driver side had sheered itself in half clinging on with dear life to the car, MOT fail, what im concerned at is the fact they are replacing just that spring surprised it wasent both as the othe rone is corroded, £82 i would expect for a pair!

any more winter troubles i should be on the look for??? Its a good job i have the new vrs to pootle around in at uni.

cheers people all help welcome!!

well springs fixed gona keep an eye on the other one, recon its the state of the roads pot holes evrywhere

activate rear washer and have someone look under car. If no water leaking out somewhere chances are pipe has disconnected up near where it goes through into the boot (that lump of trunked cabling on left side of boot when open) If you see water coming out behind left front wheel, its probably popped off the pump. If coming out closer to cabin, its popped off where it goes into bulkhead - this is most common place. Just need to reattach the hose again.

I imagine the headlight backs are cheap from dealers, otherwise scour ebay for breakers ads as the front lights are usually totalled in a crash, but that does no harm to the back covers usually.

Headlight backs about £5-6 each from Skoda dealer - got one last month.

Was a smokey-clear plastic instead of the normal black though!

smokey clear wonder why what u gona see haha

well least she has an mot now anything i can do to keep her tip top throughout the winter

The Mk1 Fabia VRS has a rear washer connection that pops apart behind the tailgate plastic trim.

Its a fight to get this trim off, and needs two people to put it back on, to make it easier.