For those of you who have older high mileage cars do you have many problems now that the fabia is 5 plus years old.

Your main problem will be finding a dealer experienced enough to diagnose and rectify basic 'wear and tear' faults. Many are lost beyond basic servicing (in my painful experience)!

Agreed. A lot of the smaller dealers, some of whom were were very old-established Skoda dealers, went by the wayside a year or so back.

Many of them are still Skoda Authorised Repairers, and their experience may be what you are looking for.

My fabia is approaching 5 years old. Had to put a new engine in it. :(

But seriously, it would have kept going for ages, whatever the age.

The problem with the engines I think have been noted.

I worked for a Skoda dealer when these first came out.

Service manager then.

I also did the warranty for these.

The main problems was head gaskets on the 1.4 8v.

Coolant temp sensors.

Yaw angle steering sensors.

Alot of these problems was noted by Skoda and covered in to a 5th year of warranty.

Mileage depending on some.

Problems I had with mine during the year I owned it (3 years old with 53k miles on when I bought - sold recently with 82k miles on it)

- Worn track rod end - managed to negotiate free labour if I covered the cost of the part

- Tracking went "out of alignment" and chewed the front driver's tyre ... dealer checked tracking and said it was fine ... new front driver's tyre chewed again in 5k miles ... went to an independent tyre place and they said the tracking was way out, sorted it for 20 quid and the tyres wore evenly after that!

- Air con sensor packed up (