Its been a while since ive used this forum due to personal life but now with abit of spare time thought id start again with a project journal.

I bought my 2005 (05) skoda fabia mk1 black magic back in 2008. Car was standard and i planned to keep it that way.

Kept the car standard for about one week then started changing a few simple things.

changed standard wipers to areo wipers

removed the "skoda" and "fabia" badges from the back and changed the boot badge and grille side badge to "vrs" style ones

changed the front grille badge to a vrs style logo then for the "engine cover" badge and sprayed magic black

sprayed front grille magic black

de-tangoed the front and rear indicators

used fly-eyes for the front and rear lights

first pic with original badges and grille sprayed black

second picture with the vrs logo grill with no tango bulbs

last time with magic black grill, engine cover badge and fly-eyes fitted to lights, this is how it looks to this day. might spray grill different colour next.

after changing all the simple stuff first i thought i could do with a new headunit, quite liked the double din style so found myself a kenwood double din player.

its a good headunit as i use the memory stick for all my music. looking for a new one atm as i keep punching the memory stick when changing gears and i would like a satnav touchscreen next. any ideas?

next up was the front bulbs. i found the normal bulbs poor and as i started doing alot of motorway miles during night i upgraded to osram nightbreakers, after few months one popped so bought some phillips bright headlights, i still wasnt to happy with them so looked into a HiD kit. fitted the kit and never looked back, amamzing.

this is the kit i bought

fitting was quite simple was just abit type fitting the ballasts in. both sides shown below.

next was few under bonnet mods. fitted seat sport strut brace, pd150 air intake, k+n panel filter. (removed filter and back to just OE filters)

had to save abit of money for the next mods so car stayed the same for awhie apart from cambelt and waterpump change which i did at work so only cost was parts.

after saving some money up i got the engine remapped to roughly 170bhp. the car felt so much different and quicker. to go with the remap i went and got some octavia front brakes and fitted with new discs and pads. the original alloys were a close fit so found some newly refurned 17" octavia spiders and fitted.

a new Whiteline rear anti roll bar and Koni Strt suspension kit came next to drop the car and improve handling.

after all the work i thought id treat the bodywork to some TLC so ordered up so cleaning, detailing products

attempted my first ever detail on my fabia which i think went quite well. car got snow foamed, washed, clayed, polished, waxed, alloys cleaned, interior wet and dryed.

snow foam, best part lol

my helper for the detail

after the clay

all finished waiting for next lot of work

hope wasnt to picture heavy, that brings me up to date with the fabia.

looking to start spending on her again now. future plans are,

blue calipers

black gloss wrapped interior parts

new double din cd/sat nav player

leather seats? black cloth seats?

interior lighting to blue -- could do with some help on which bulbs i need and how to go about under pedel lighting - thanks

vrs alloy footrest

next big plans are

hybrid turbo

FMIC

remap

the last three ineed to get them past other half first lol saving for house and car doesnt mix ive been told

hope it wasnt to boring for you all.

glad to be back to the forum

Defo a good start