Hi all,

 

I've been watching the forum for a while now since owning my Fabia in June 2012, but hadn't got round to introducing myself or my car properly! I moved to Skoda from Vauxhall; a brand most of my family have bought repeatedly for many years. Having had a 2002 Corsa 1.0 to bear the brunt of my learning and 2 years overall service, I needed something that wouldn't throw £100-300 bills every few months.

 

That lead to me looking through various models, and long story short I found my Fabia, which ticked the boxes for what I need at the moment. I've copied and pasted my most recent update from Pistonheads as a summary of the first year of ownership:

 

Just a bit of an update, since I have now has the car over a year and have covered just over 11K miles in it.

It hasn't really needed much maintenance from me, I've added some coolant (literally as smidge) as it seems to settle a little below half way, though now I'm happy it doesn't go any lower I think it will be left alone. It's used about 300ml of oil over 10K miles and averaged 40.2MPG

It went for it's service and MOT mid June and passed with no advisories, although it requires some age related work to be inline with the skoda health check: brake fluid change and rear drum rebuild, so the service cost was a fair bit more than I had expected! Although it looks like it should be fairly cheap next year all remaining well.

Finally got round to taking some pics with the car properly clean and waxed, with the edition of a large PH smiley:

|http://thumbsnap.com/W5ENVplk
|http://thumbsnap.com/B6dN8kv7
|http://thumbsnap.com/YImGPuyx
|http://thumbsnap.com/PtvZJ74o
|http://thumbsnap.com/PYO1kD52
|http://thumbsnap.com/3r0K0qVH
|http://thumbsnap.com/hrgSHGkQ

 

The only real gripes I've had with the car is that the CD player broke, swallowing my disk; It's currently at skoda being repaired/my disk being recovered, and it has meant I could upgrade the head unit to a Kenwood Bluetooth one;

|http://thumbsnap.com/tukijDj9

Overall it is better and IMO looks pretty OEM+, although the radio signal is not as good. Luckily I'm mainly using CD's and my Ipod so this doesn't bother me. The other issue was mouldy smelling air conditioning, which I used an air con bomb on a few months ago, only for it to return this week. This time I did the job properly; replacing the cabin filter which looked and more importantly smelt like the original :vomit:

|http://thumbsnap.com/2uJnofGB

 

After the new filter was fitted and another air con treatment used all is well! Just in time to cart a shed load of holiday gear and 3 of the family on holiday to the Isle Of Wight. Will try and get some picture of the car in situ this year

Overall I'm growing more chuffed with the car, it fails to let me down in any aspect of my current requirements; space, refinement, image, reliability and I give it a second look every time I pull up at home, and curse at every mark it picks up. Really like the thing and just hope it keeps going and looking as nice as it is now

 

thanks for reading!

 

Henry

 

Hi and welcome aboard.

Welcome.

Welcome along!  I too have got an htp fabia, cracking little car, the twin cam sounds cool when revved too!