SOLD - Fabia vRS Mk 1 2006

This is a bit of an odd one. I want to sell my Fabia vRS mkI PD130 BLT. 

I've owned the car from new (1 owner). It was bought through Drive the Deal from Simpsons in Colne on the 8th of August 2006. It's never been crashed, or significantly damaged in any way. It has a few small marks on the bodywork (it's an 11-year old car) but fundamentally the whole car is in pretty good condition. For the first 2 years of it's life the car was driven only by me and I racked up 80,000 miles in 2 years. Almost all of that was motorway. Since then the car was driven only by SWMBO who somehow managed to keep up the good work and the car is now showing 237,000 miles on the clock but the truth is that the car ran for at least 45,000 miles with a Maxidot dashpod in it and the true mileage is nearer to 290,000 miles. It was never remapped. It made 148bhp on Poqwer Station's rolling road with 5000 miles on the clock and it still pulls well today.

SWMBO was very happy with it, and it was always serviced every 9000 miles by Skoda main dealers (almost all Robinsons in Norwich). In April this year, SWMBO came back from the shops to discover that the front driver's side shock absorber had failed and the car was sitting on the driver's side tyre. While I immediately had all 4 shocks replaced by Robinsons in Norwich she couldn't shake the image of the shock failing at 70mph on the A11 and in June of this year we bought a new Polo GTi 5dr which she is VERY happy with. Essentially it's the same basic car with a petrol engine.

So, the car sat in my garage and I didn't renew the tax or the MOT. I was working in Germany for the last year so it was unused. This morning I got back to the UK to discover that it had sprung a coolant leak from the passenger side of the car are SWMBO had put a big basin under it. So, it's obviously not doing the car any good to sit in the garage unused.

I could get £5000 for it against a new VW Golf GTE or slightly more or less against other cars under the various scrappage schemes but fundamentally this is a good car and I don't want to scrap it. I love it. I want someone else to love it and enjoy it and use it.

The car has cruise control, airbag deactivation switch and it's Black Magic in colour.

The car has some modifications.

Seat Cupra Air Intake

JabbaSport RARB (the really stiff one)

Audi TT 312mm front brakes

Eibach springs (25mm drop) (2nd set fited at 120,000 miles)

17" Octavia Spiders (a bit rough, but the tyres are good).

Kenwood DNX7200BT Head Unit (Garmin satnav)

Alpine Integrated amplifier and sub under the front passenger seat

XMAN750 Hybrid Garrett turbo on a BLT manifold so the EGR works as it should

I also have all the original bits (turbo, brakes etc.) to put the car back to standard if anyone wanted to do that. 

I'm also utterly convinced the car would pass an MOT tomorrow if the coolant leak was fixed. I want £1000 for it. Which might seem outrageous for a car that you can't test drive and needs a coolant leak fixed, but I'm 100% sure the first person to come and see it will take it away and pay all the money.  

I can get photographs for anyone who wants them.

Edited 24 November, 20178 yr by wja96