Hullo

Can someone with a Fabia vRS of this year please stick up your usual speeds at various RPMs in sixth, please?

Thanks. Just wanted to get a little taster and see if I'll get better cruising economy in theory.

I need like 40mph/60mph/70mph/80mph+

I can stick mine in 6th at 25mph, remove both feet from pedals, and watch it slowly pull up to 30mph bang on and it would sit there all day on relitivly flat road surface

I can stick mine in 6th at 25mph, remove both feet from pedals, and watch it slowly pull up to 30mph bang on and it would sit there all day on relitivly flat road surface

It would do that in my less powerful car in 5th. Looks like you bought a duffer

It would do that in my less powerful car in 5th. Looks like you bought a duffer

Wait til i put my foot down though........................

Yeah, mine pulls to the tickover from 25mph in fifth too, although only on the flat and I try not to do that too often. I just wondered what sort of RPM 80mph would be - Currently its 2500rpm in fifth in my car, and I'd like it to be somewhere a lot closer to 2000rpm after the work is done.

Actually just read your topic name correctly, mine is an '05. Dont know if that would make any difference? :confused:

Actually just read your topic name correctly, mine is an '05. Dont know if that would make any difference? :confused:

Don't think so, as it was 04 I think that Skoda decided to alter the gearing so it wasn't as long as the 53 plate cars. So your gearing is likely to be the same anyway.

Don't think so, as it was 04 I think that Skoda decided to alter the gearing so it wasn't as long as the 53 plate cars. So your gearing is likely to be the same anyway.

I'll have to remember and check tomorrow, just in from driving it too

Have look here :

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showpost.php?p=227973

Have look here :

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showpost.php?p=227973

Spot on!

Looks like the 04 doesn't rev much lower in sixth at 80, than mine does now in 5th - only around 100rpm or so. Not so good, but still.

edit: Obvious Q now is, which may have been asked before, is WHY did they change it to a shorter ratio box? :confused:

My '04 gearbox gives me 70mph at just under 1900 rpm. I can't remember the exact figure, but it is not much above 2100rpm at 80mph. Will check this afternoon.

Looks like the 04 doesn't rev much lower in sixth at 80, than mine does now in 5th - only around 100rpm or so. Not so good, but still.

The idea of the six speed box is not to change the rpm in final gear. It brings all the lower gears closer together.

Fabia RS - Modified gearbox

The gearbox combined with the 1.9TDI/ 96 kW engine will have the gear ratios optimized and,

consequently, some of its spec will change slightly (see the following table).

Valid from: Week 5, 2004

1.9 TDI/ 96 kW 1.9 TDI/ 96 kW

Old New

Gear ratio

I. 3.769 3.769

II. 2.087 2.087

III. 1.324 1.324

IV. 0.911 0.977

V. 0.902 0.975

VI. 0.756 0.814

R 4.459 4.459

Final ratio I-3.238/ II-2.615 I-3.238/ II-2.615

Max speed kmh 204 206

Acceleration 0-100 kmh s 9.6 9.5

Fuel consumpti on EU 3 EU 3

A (urban) l/100 km 6.7 7.1

B (extra-urban) 4.2 4.5

C (total) 5.1 5.4

CO2 (total) g/km 138 146

My '04 gearbox gives me 70mph at just under 1900 rpm. I can't remember the exact figure, but it is not much above 2100rpm at 80mph. Will check this afternoon.

Checked this on the weekend - eeez correct sir.

Oh good. Lets hope I have this same gearbox then.

Will be nice to have 400 less RPM at 80mph.

Just checked my 2005. 2400rpm in 6th at 80mph :confused:

My 04 was the same as yours Jobo roughly. About 2200 or slightly less at 70.

Just checked my 2005. 2400rpm in 6th at 80mph :confused:

That's fine.... 6th gear gives you 32.51mph/1000rpm - hence 2400rpm = 78mph!

An early car doing 2400rpm in 6th would be going at over 91mph - or at 78mph would only be turning at 2050rpm....

Sounds like I'm in for a gamble which gearbox I have.

Anyone know both part numbers for the two generations of gearbox so I can see which mine is, and be prepared. It doesn't really matter, but would be nice to know. I prefer longer gearboxes anyway, but won't mind if I have the closer ratio one.

Sounds like I'm in for a gamble which gearbox I have.

Anyone know both part numbers for the two generations of gearbox so I can see which mine is' date=' and be prepared. It doesn't really matter, but would be nice to know. I prefer longer gearboxes anyway, but won't mind if I have the closer ratio one.[/quote']

Is the 3-letter gearbox code somewhere on the gearbox itself?

ETKA lists three 6-speed gearboxes, with codes FJW, FSM and HDS.

My Furby vRS was built in June '04 and has the newer gearbox, code HDS.

I guess the F-series were earlier, but whether one or both refers to the early 'long-legged' gearbox, I don't know. (I don't know what the difference between the FJW and FSM boxes was.) So the '04 gearbox on the spreadsheet refers to the HDS; the '53 gearbox data will be for the F-series, I guess.

Sounds like I'm in for a gamble which gearbox I have.

Anyone know both part numbers for the two generations of gearbox so I can see which mine is' date=' and be prepared. It doesn't really matter, but would be nice to know. I prefer longer gearboxes anyway, but won't mind if I have the closer ratio one.[/quote']

The easiest way is merely to accelerate to 2000 in 6th gear and see what the speed is - if it's 76mph or thereabouts you've got the old box - if it's 65mph or thereabouts you've got the new one. Note 5th on the old one is almost the same as sixth on the new one...

Who needs 6 gears with all of that torque.

I think it would be good to have a higher 5th gear on my pd100 after Allards get their hands on it on Friday.

John