Flimsy wheel bearing nut.

Well it's a generous calling it a nut. 2001 1.4 MPI with slight judder on the left front wheel when braking. Had a look and the bit of shaped tin that passes for the hub nut has fatigued and fractured. Bought a new one from Skoda and it is considerably more substantial. The early nut holds on four threads and is torqued to 30 Newton metres. That's only a touch more than finger tight. The later nut is torqued to 50 N/m and then 45 degrees more. That's quite a difference for two fittings which are supposedly both entirely good engineering solutions, doing the same job and equally safe. I wonder why the later nut isn't just torqued to 30N/m if that's all the early one needs?

I guess that as there is not a history of front wheels flying off early Fabias the early nut works fine but I don't think I have ever seen anything as Fred Carno.