Just spoken to skoda who advise before I spend any money get the track rods and ball joints checked

This sounds right to me.

If the camber and castor aren't adjustable (and your screenshot says they're within spec), and the garage who tried to align it couldn't get the toe right, despite having nothing else to adjust, there must be something wrong.

I'm ashamed to say this but it was kwickfit as they were the nearest people with a hunter

I'm ashamed to say this but it was kwickfit as they were the nearest people with a hunter

I'd suspect bottom ball joints on the basis of having seen excess inner edge wear resulting from worn ball joints before.

I'm ashamed to say this but it was kwickfit as they were the nearest people with a hunter

 

I'd reckon as long as that KwikFit place, probably one of their "steering" specialist places and not tyres/exhausts/batteries, had someone trained to use that Hunter jig, then why not use them - also, maybe best to ask in a nice way if they know what Fabias need normally doing to sort it out.

 

Lower swivels (balljoints) I found, at least on a 2002 Polo 1.4 16V, that there was significant clearance on the fixing holes where they are bolted on to the TCA, so a possible source of introducing an alignment error after changing them. Trackrods, yes, I had an MOT advisory on one of them so replaced them along with RDEs buying these parts from ECP is cheap, buying from VAG is expensive. Four wheel alignment at a VAG dealer costs a bit, I know this!! (felt I had to get it done again after being shamed into driving away after failing an MOT for "your" issue about 9K miles after fitting new tyres and a four wheel alignment £££)

 

Edit:-  I should add, when I got an advisory for a single track rod, and there was a bit of movement, so correct verdict at MOT, there was no visible uneven tyre wear, maybe caught in time?

Edited 26 August, 201510 yr by rum4mo

These are the ones i need arent they - http://www.skodaparts.com/product/fabia-o-s-ball-joint-2000-2007-34838

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Fronts should be able to be adjusted to remedy - use above suggestions to help.

Rears however, are a different story..  My old Fabia used to wear the inside edges of the rear end, tried allsorts to fix.  Removing RARB helped, but reduced rather than fixed.  Never go to the bottom of it.

 

Randomly, a few months after selling I found a suggestion on a-n-other forum referencing the polo, saying rear shock absorbers could be 'lazy', so not failed, but just a bit crap, leading to the weird wear.  Worth an investigate perhaps?

These are the ones i need arent they - http://www.skodaparts.com/product/fabia-o-s-ball-joint-2000-2007-34838

Hopefully you haven't ordered two of those?

They're not the same on both sides of the car. Nearside one is 6Q0407365M.