Hi! Bought my first Skoda today, a Felicia 1.3 Pacific, so thought it would be a good idea to join the forum as I've never owned a Skoda before. I'll be getting the Haynes manual soon, as it needs a service. I don't know much about this car, and am hoping that I can learn to service/maintain it myself. It's got a little over 80 thousand miles on the clock, and was registered in 2000. First day of driving it so still getting used to it.

I'd be interested to hear what others' experience of this car have been like, and the things to look out for. Looking forward to learning how to keep it running well..

Thanks for any feedback I may get..

--Andy (Basingstoke, South East England).

Hello and welcome to briskoda..

I must admit out of all the felicia's I've owned I've never actually had a 1300 for more than 1 day before lifting the engine out so I can't really comment on those. However they are really good cars for the DIY enthusiast to work on and servicing is a nice and easy because there's plenty of room in the engine bay to work in there...

Pop along to the felicia section on here, there's plenty of knowledgeable folks and some downright hardcore mentalists too...

If Santa is bringing you a Haynes manual ( the book of lies) you should get on quite well, all the common procedures are quite well documented... There only real common failure points on a felicia are the front dampers( there is a thread pinned at the top of the felica section about it) and the thermostat housings can be a bit troublesome.. There's no timing belt(cam belt) to worry about on the 1300cc engine because it has a chain but the chains are prone to wear which causes a lovely death rattle but not a massive job to replace tbh..

Tom,

Hello and welcome to briskoda..

I must admit out of all the felicia's I've owned I've never actually had a 1300 for more than 1 day before lifting the engine out so I can't really comment on those. However they are really good cars for the DIY enthusiast to work on and servicing is a nice and easy because there's plenty of room in the engine bay to work in there...

Pop along to the felicia section on here, there's plenty of knowledgeable folks and some downright hardcore mentalists too...

If Santa is bringing you a Haynes manual ( the book of lies) you should get on quite well, all the common procedures are quite well documented... There only real common failure points on a felicia are the front dampers( there is a thread pinned at the top of the felica section about it) and the thermostat housings can be a bit troublesome.. There's no timing belt(cam belt) to worry about on the 1300cc engine because it has a chain but the chains are prone to wear which causes a lovely death rattle but not a massive job to replace tbh..

Tom,

Thanks for posting a reply so quickly Tom! And for providing some useful information. I must admit I was fretting about some of the rattles. The Haynes manual I'll get off ebay. For the record I paid £590 for mine today ie yesterday now! So had a few moments of post-purchase anxiety.. but feeling better now. Needed a car quickly as destroyed my Corsa B 1.5 Diesel just over a week ago - this was a car I loved (no accounting for taste, but they run forever and have got plenty of torque for general driving..). Thankfully the Felicia was only 5 miles down the road from me.

I gather the engine is an original Skoda pushrod design, but has had it's quality upped by VW providing better tooling to make the thing thus enabling it to be made to better tolerances. Years ago my driving instructor praised Skoda's, glad to see that they are doing so well..

Thanks for your feedback. Greatly pleased that the car can be worked as not too much 'black box'!

Cheers,

--Andy

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