Its seems this cladding was just a lucky dip.

Looked at a friends 62plate 1.2 fabia 'S' today it has the cladding. 

Yo dude i had same rattle from underneath so got the car up on me ramps crawled under and discovered that the exhaust heat shield around the middle of the car was rattling of the plastic under cladding so it was easy sorted. any sort of rattles p*** me off...!!!

Thanks OCD - now I just need to get it on ramps or I have some portable ramps that never seem to work!

The fact that all cars don't have it means that it is not there to protect the bodywork, must be something to do with fuel saving.

Anyone got a picture? I have two long, sort of dimpled plastic pieces running lengthwise from the front of the car and ending just before the line of the rear wheels.

Thanks they are great pictures!

skoda1982 - thats a nice shiny exhaust system. Did you do something to polish/preserve it?

skoda1982 - thats a nice shiny exhaust system. Did you do something to polish/preserve it?

No that's how it came

Hi I have noticed recently that my fabia has underbody plastic cladding between the front and rear wheels. Is this standard on all fabias ? My car does have sports suspension so is 15mm lower that standard car, could this be the reason its fitted.

 

 

Hi I have noticed recently that my fabia has underbody plastic cladding between the front and rear wheels. Is this standard on all fabias ? My car does have sports suspension so is 15mm lower that standard car, could this be the reason its fitted.

I have a greenline (59 plate) and it was listed as being to reduce drag, creating better airflow and improve fuel consumption, along with the lowered suspension.

 

This leads me to wonder, why not fit it to EVERY one off the production line? Surely, the eco-friendly nature would be worth it along with simpler production costs which would outweigh the extra cost of the panelling, especially as they could slap another £100 on every model, claiming the fuel saving would repay the owner!

So for all those who refer to the Fabia as a boxy non-aerodynamic shape, you can now see the aerodynamics are all underneath, it's an upside down piece of engineering wizardry

I shall be most annoyed if my new Fabia doesnt have the cladding when it turns up next week.

Ok, so this follows on from my post of six months ago, where a cat decided to try and end the Monte.

The pics below show the under tray, detached. It runs from the chin spoiler (seen in the two pics of a split piece of plastic and my fuzzy finger showing the crack - 18 inches across side to side) and is attached with hex head screws through clips inserted in the holes in the hard points.

The tray is shown off the car, nice piece of cladding, also 16 months of dust and grime (that's the inside).

I've shown two pics of the underside of the engine, as you don't see this otherwise - proof of VW genes is clear!

The clip had twisted out if the body and the screw was seized. I suspect this is as a result of the undertray and mounts flexing, thanks to the cat impacted, split plastic Chin spoiler and splitter.

I applied a shed load of WD40 (other sprays are probably available...), brute force and some pliers. I then hammered (literally) the clip back into it's mounting hole and reattached the tray.

Incidentally, I used a 35 year old diamond jack to lift the car, after I found the lowered car will not fit on the ramps I have (no clearance from wheel to chin spoiler). I really must get a trolley jack, as it took 30 minutes to twist that sucker up...

Other sprays like penetrating release oils actually work properly making jobs a lot easier.

Worth the little they cost compared the the pretty useless WD40.

Good advice George, but I had WD40 and it worked. Didn't have time for an hour's round trip to anywhere selling penetrating sprays.

Now debating how to temporarily fix the split plastic and wondering how much the part would cost...

PDIBK - thats the engine undertray as fitted to all diesels. This thread is about the two full length under body panels which go from just behind the engine bulkhead line to just in front of the rear suspension.

 

BTW I think your camera should have gone to specsavers!

Edited 22 September, 201312 yr by xman

Just had a look and my new monte estate has the plastic cladding, so did my previous Octavia, both are the 1.6 tdi. 

 

the only part not covered in cladding is the exhaust system.

xman - phone camera.  Absolutely shocking, but quicker than finding the "real" camera, upoadng the images to something etc etc.

 

I also have the underbody cladding from behind the panel that I took off, right back to the rear arch.

 

So that plastic tray is fitted to diesels.  Why only diesels?

xman - phone camera.  Absolutely shocking, but quicker than finding the "real" camera, upoadng the images to something etc etc.

 

I also have the underbody cladding from behind the panel that I took off, right back to the rear arch.

 

So that plastic tray is fitted to diesels.  Why only diesels?

 

To catch all that mucky oil they're always leaking?

 

I think its mainly a noise thing.

Shoot! My car arrived today and doesn't have the underbody cladding!

Must have been made on the night shift on production line nr.2 just before the tea break.......or Skoda UK told them to leave it off and save £8.50p......

(Its a 1.2tsi SE estate)

 

I have that tray under mine 1.2TSI. And the pics i took were taken with my phone a samsung galaxy ace 2 

 

Shoot! My car arrived today and doesn't have the underbody cladding!

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Must have been made on the night shift on production line nr.2 just before the tea break.......or Skoda UK told them to leave it off and save £8.50p......

(Its a 1.2tsi SE estate)

 

I am sure someone at skoda knows, but there does not seem to be any logic to the fitting of the cladding !

Looking at the production ticket, mine got started on Fri Morning 30th Aug at 9:30 - Maybe they ran out of plastic undertrays at the end of the week..... :wonder:

Well I'm really peeved.

 

My son went down to Brands Hatch this weekend and came back with half of it stuck underneath the car. Trying to clean large amounts of congealed mud and grass off stonechip while lying on your back in a pool of water and peeing down with rain is not my idea of fun.

 

Why dont Skoda fit undertrays to all cars??

 

Why doesnt Brands Hatch have a proper car park??

Found the part numbers for the undercar trim, would there be a difference between the L/H and R/H drive cars?

http://www.partsbase.org/skoda/fabia-fab-eu-2010-82510-noise-insulation-underbody-trim/