My best MPG was 84.9 from Leicester to Bristol =) Typically, I get mid 60's on a decent run when driving sensibly. If I drive like a tool, then I accept that my economy is rubbish. 18.6 around Castle Coombe including all the pit faffing!

Boost leak - you have some high pressures running through pipes around the engine, where these join, you can sometimes get a leak.. This causes the car to give too much fuel for the air its getting, as some is escaping. Lots of info on this here site about it, look for sooty residue around the pipes in the engine bay is a good place to start.

My best MPG was 84.9 from Leicester to Bristol =) Typically, I get mid 60's on a decent run when driving sensibly. If I drive like a tool, then I accept that my economy is rubbish. 18.6 around Castle Coombe including all the pit faffing!

Boost leak - you have some high pressures running through pipes around the engine, where these join, you can sometimes get a leak.. This causes the car to give too much fuel for the air its getting, as some is escaping. Lots of info on this here site about it, look for sooty residue around the pipes in the engine bay is a good place to start.

Will do. Can get on that tomorrow before giving it a wash and trying to remove the soot from the bumper. In a way, I hope it is a leaky pipe, as it sounds an easy ish fix. And that also means it may be standard on the mapping front . . . . Meaning when I eventually get it done, I'll really feel a difference

Coming from a 2.4d T4, where my last MPG count was 27.25, I'm pleased if I am over 40 mpg at the minute ha ha

De-Tar and clay the rear bumper [i use petrol in a spray bottle for de-tarring]

Should help alot Also go around all the seams with a pressure washer. open the front doors and blast into the door shuts so that you can clean out the area behind the arch liners without remobinh them.

They seem to hold ALOT of muck!

Apart from replacing the bulbs with some blue tinted xenon look ones and swapping the front & rear orange indicator lights for a silver/blue look, mines standard. I do have plans to get the wheels sand blasted then painted a dark gloss anthracite colour, maybe get poly bushes in time

Edited 18 September, 201213 yr by VRSD30

Gave it a wash today, the soot/tar remained. So, used some G3 paint renovator, and all told seems to have got rid of a massive amount of it, which was nice! But a more long term solution is needed like claying.

Also noticed the exhaust is black inside (I know most will be), but am wondering if an old fashioned italian tune would be in order? Question is, how long and how hard to 'tune' it . . .

Get claying. Best thing I ever did. Shifts most things without resorting to concoctions :-)

Oh mine gets sooty on the rear, smokes and is standard. Must be old oil?

hi mgolder81,

like you, i'm new to the fabia vrs, i'm happy with performance and economy average 56-60mpg on run to work, i had slightly sooty boot but like you said a good bit of elbow grease will cure it,

i had to clean my egr valve out due to large amounts of caked black sooty oily deposits which i removed just after i bought the car,

it runs fine now, do sometimes get a little oil run from small hole under silver disc, but it's getting less, can anyone tell me how this has happened,

millage was 114k when bought in feb 2012, also had oil residue in intercooler pipework any reason.

Yeah the egr cleaning is something that I was aware of as the hardy bunch of folk who turbo'd their 2.4D T4's always had a part in their threads about doing it.

Is it relatively easy though, I guess is my worry? And as was the case on the T4, will I gain anything by blanking the egr?

I've heard that a bloke from skoda gives you a medal. May be misinformation though...

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