AnnoyingPentium's 2006 Fabia 1.2 12v Ambiente-ish: I Honestly Think I've Lost the Plot...

[skomaz]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

Yeah it's doing my head in too, it looked okay until I looked back at the picture.

 

He he...   Sorry! 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Properly fitted "tha blue teeth" the other day...

 

 

 

That's the second one of those Kenwood stereos I've bought. The first ended up in my Gran and Grampa's caravan.

 

Additionally, the rust has been properly repaired on one of the sill ends, but the sill is getting scabby elsewhere, but remains very solid. The work I've done would have Dali doing barrel rolls in his wooden box but it's functional.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's plenty other places I've still to do on the car, but will get around to.

[@Lee]

vRS trim piece?

 

I like your ambition 😉

[AnnoyingPentium]

15 hours ago, @Lee said:

vRS trim piece?

 

I like your ambition 😉

 

Adds five horsepower, dontchaknow?

 

The real reason is that it was a quid cheaper than a regular one...

[AnnoyingPentium]

Nearly a month and what has happened?

 

Hmmmmm...

 

Droplinks broke! Both sides. Fun. I've replaced one side so far, other side hasn't been done yet.

 

 

 

In further news, my driver's side window regulator decided it didn't want to regulate windows anymore, leaving my window completely down. Many black bags later it was whole again, and then as of today, it's now repaired... "professionally" (by me and my Granda).

 

Furthermore, I've chav specced the car with a tasteful* sunstrip.

 

 

Meh, I like it, it has practical uses. At least it doesn't have mine and the other half I don't have's names on it...

 

Further to that, been sorting out niggles with the car, which included a replacement engine cover, mirror glass, and fitting a spring into the fuel cap!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh aye, and before I forget, the P0171 issue has been cured! Turns out I'd had the wrong fuel filter on the car, as it was the three bar one (as fitted by the garage), and not the correct four bar filter. 49mpg is doable if I behave.

 

So here is the car as it stands now, I'm really pleased with how it's coming along, never done, of course. However, I am content with where things are at now.

 

[TMB]

Good work 👍

 

What's the aftermarket looking relay for that's mounted on the (right in pic) strut tower?

[TMB]

........Ah, just thought - maybe air horns?

[AnnoyingPentium]

12 minutes ago, TMB said:

Good work 👍

 

What's the aftermarket looking relay for that's mounted on the (right in pic) strut tower?

 

10 minutes ago, TMB said:

........Ah, just thought - maybe air horns?

 

Correct! It's all wired in there. The air horns sit right at the back of the engine bay and seem fine there. It's got tri-tone horns since the factory original is still sort of functional too (even if massively blurred out by the double air horns). They're loud and obnoxious, just to match the car and the owner too.  

[AnnoyingPentium]

Oh yeah I have a thread for this, whoops.

 

So, dear reader, what the f*** has went on since I last posted an update?

 

Well, Skodafest has been the highlight. It's the first show I've taken the car to, and it got loads of interest, and was lovely to put faces to names and suchlike. Four of us travelled down, in three different Fabias. Two Mk1s (hatch and estate), and @lewiswal47's Mk3.

 

 

It started with two, that spawned the third...

 

 

And finally, them all in their habitual stances...

 

 

Lots of miles were racked up in that time, as can be seen with the trip computer below.

 

 

And of course, it's passed 79,000 miles now. So paging in @FUBAR right now! Photo below clearly taken by passenger.

 

 

Once back home, I tidied up the wheels, as I had found my chemicals for cleaning 'em.

 

 

After

 

 

Not the same wheel, but they were all pretty similar states.

 

Oh, and of course, it wouldn't be a thread update if something hadn't broke!

 

 

This is suboptimal, but no big issue. I'll sort it when I can. The car is doing very little mileage at the moment anyway! Bigger fish to fry and that.

[TMB]

Those bump stops always rot away. Both of mine were broken like yours when I first got my Fabia.

[Paws4Thot]

7 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Four of us travelled down, in three different Fabias. Two Mk1s (hatch and estate), and @lewiswal47's Mk3.

 

 

It started with two, that spawned the third...

I rather like the Natural Green Octavia L&K (not a Furbie).

[AnnoyingPentium]

As per the "MS402/502" wanted thread, I've got one... and rear electric windows, kinda.

 

 

It's going to be a hell of a job, at least for the electric windows, but it'll pay off I'm sure. Going to grab the parts tomorrow amongst other things.

 

Will update this thread accordingly.

[AnnoyingPentium]

All parts collected today. Filled a V70!

 

 

The MS502 fits perfectly and as far as I can tell from brief testing, works great. It's like the VW Gamma unit but with a slightly different design. Very good, and I've got the matching 6 CD changer for going under the seat. That includes the loom.

 

As for rear electric windows, I have everything but the motor and the switchpack, as both had been removed from the car. Those doors you see there are from the donor car, which was a gold 51 plate Elegance with everything but heated seats (which was odd).

 

Going to get a mate of a mate to spray the doors in Flamenco Red and just fit them quite the thing, as they're in much better condition (and less rusty) than my own ones. Win win. Test fitted one of the Elegance door cards today, from the driver side door.

 

 

Looks decent, and the Elegance of a certain age is a better quality car overall. The one we picked from was rust free, with a really clean interior, I'd have taken the seats too if I didn't like my own Bohemia ones as much. The Elegance, it turns out, has soft touch plastics in the armrests and suchlike, which is miles nicer than that of the Classic and Comfort/Ambiente. The image below is of our "victim" of vulturing, a 51 plate Elegance in bronze/gold/brown whatever. A weird spec 1.4 16v model. Not too bad though.

 

 

Also purchased a vRS steering wheel at the yard, it's in good enough nick and may get fitted later as I actually quite like the three spoke now. Other things have been bought, like paperwork to accompany the car, tax discs, boot badges, and some other wee odds and ends that will complete my own car.

 

Recycling, or what?

[TrevorB33]

31 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

All parts collected today. Filled a V70!

 

 

The MS502 fits perfectly and as far as I can tell from brief testing, works great. It's like the VW Gamma unit but with a slightly different design. Very good, and I've got the matching 6 CD changer for going under the seat. That includes the loom.

 

As for rear electric windows, I have everything but the motor and the switchpack, as both had been removed from the car. Those doors you see there are from the donor car, which was a gold 51 plate Elegance with everything but heated seats (which was odd).

 

Going to get a mate of a mate to spray the doors in Flamenco Red and just fit them quite the thing, as they're in much better condition (and less rusty) than my own ones. Win win. Test fitted one of the Elegance door cards today, from the driver side door.

 

 

Looks decent, and the Elegance of a certain age is a better quality car overall. The one we picked from was rust free, with a really clean interior, I'd have taken the seats too if I didn't like my own Bohemia ones as much. The Elegance, it turns out, has soft touch plastics in the armrests and suchlike, which is miles nicer than that of the Classic and Comfort/Ambiente. The image below is of our "victim" of vulturing, a 51 plate Elegance in bronze/gold/brown whatever. A weird spec 1.4 16v model. Not too bad though.

 

 

Also purchased a vRS steering wheel at the yard, it's in good enough nick and may get fitted later as I actually quite like the three spoke now. Other things have been bought, like paperwork to accompany the car, tax discs, boot badges, and some other wee odds and ends that will complete my own car.

 

Recycling, or what?

Nice find with the 502

[AnnoyingPentium]

6 minutes ago, TrevorB33 said:

Nice find with the 502

 

Cheers Trev. *The other Ryan* picked it up for me when he was up a few days ago along with the changer, and we went back today to get the rest of the bits we were after.

[TMB]

Ryan, you're aff yer heid!

[gav_is_con]

You just need to dust off your collection of cassettes now Ryan 

[AnnoyingPentium]

15 hours ago, TMB said:

Ryan, you're aff yer heid!

 

Wasn't sure when I'd get another opportunity to find a Fabia like that, so took my chance and harvested all the good stuff. Thankfully the other Ryan is an automotive electrician, and wired his own rear electric windows in on his 07 plate "was once a 1.2 Bohemia" Golf PD150 engined estate. So I'm just going to do the easier job of the 6 disc changer while he swears at the car for a bit. The guy who painted his car is going to do the gold doors, making them flamenco red so my car doesn't look a bit daft.

 

We hacked that Elegance apart for anything we even thought we may need. We should be prepared enough.

 

Ryan's (not me, I don't speak about myself in the third person... usually) after a Mk1 saloon to PD, but wants a petrol manual base (so an AUB or equivalent)... this suits me fine for the masterplan (not to be confused with that one Oasis album).

 

6 hours ago, gav_is_con said:

You just need to dust off your collection of cassettes now Ryan 

 

Already out in the car! Had one tape left lying in the little DIN drawer which is now in the machine. Got a box out with some cracking albums. Will take a photo later!

[TMB]

The donor car is an unusual colour. Don't think I've seen one that colour in the wild. Has rear discs too.

[AnnoyingPentium]

14 minutes ago, TMB said:

The donor car is an unusual colour. Don't think I've seen one that colour in the wild. Has rear discs too.

 

Yeah, at one point there was a whole wad of bronze/gold ones for sale but they've dried up. It was one of the funky colours Skoda did on the early ones, like the array of greens and suchlike!

 

It's got rear discs as it's a 1.4 16v AUB thing. Quite a decent wee car. If I knew the engine worked... and we had a trailer. We'd have been off with that too.

[Paws4Thot]

2 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

the masterplan (not to be confused with that one Oasis album).

Parklife?  

[Gaz]

1 hour ago, Paws4Thot said:

Parklife?  

White man speak with Blurry tongue 😛 

 

Gaz

[AnnoyingPentium]

New thread title to reflect the insanity that is the work being carried out on this car.

[TMB]

I can't wait until you tell us that when you press the rear window switches, the front ones go down and vice versa

[AnnoyingPentium]

19 hours ago, TMB said:

I can't wait until you tell us that when you press the rear window switches, the front ones go down and vice versa

 

That sounds about right for work carried out by me. Know a guy with a Golf that does this too, when you put the key in to move the windows, the fronts go up, and the rear down, or vice-versa sometimes.