Hi, just acquired a Fabia Mk II Monte Carlo estate  (my third Fabia; have previously driven Mk1 hatch and estate). I've found Briskoda through searching for answers to questions on the web so often in the past that I've decided to stop lurking and sign up properly! I ask a good bit of my cars - I live out in the sticks and need to get to work whatever the weather, so they're expected to deal with rough roads, inclement weather, water splashes, snow drifts and heavy loads (I'm a smallholder), I tow regularly (haven't had a tow bar fitted on this one yet!) and I've always found Fabias to be reliable, dependable and, given winter tyres, as good as anything short of a Land Rover for getting through the drifts and floods so, after a couple of years wrestling with Another Make (Ford Kuga - comfortable, capable but very expensive and unreliable) I'm back to Skoda and the Fabia estate! I quite enjoy minor tinkering after growing up as a biker (many decades ago!) and can deal with stuff like paintwork, tyres, routine checks and small fixes, but anything computerised or engine-based lands in the garage these days. It also helps that my local garage are Skoda specialists.

 

Look forward to contributing as well as learning here. 

 

 

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Welcome @RunningDog.  Are you near Maud, so Victoria Garage?  Simply the best. 

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9 hours ago, e-Roottoot said:

Are you near Maud, so Victoria Garage?  Simply the best. 

Spot on - I've used Victoria Garage for nigh-on 16 years now, never let me down and can fix anything. My mother lived just round the corner from the garage and they'd come round to fix flat batteries, or replace a tyre, or unseize the brakes in wet weather... service above and beyond. Wouldn't go anywhere else!

On 18/09/2021 at 00:02, RunningDog said:

Hi, just acquired a Fabia Mk II Monte Carlo estate  (my third Fabia; have previously driven Mk1 hatch and estate). I've found Briskoda through searching for answers to questions on the web so often in the past that I've decided to stop lurking and sign up properly! I ask a good bit of my cars - I live out in the sticks and need to get to work whatever the weather, so they're expected to deal with rough roads, inclement weather, water splashes, snow drifts and heavy loads (I'm a smallholder), I tow regularly (haven't had a tow bar fitted on this one yet!) and I've always found Fabias to be reliable, dependable and, given winter tyres, as good as anything short of a Land Rover for getting through the drifts and floods so, after a couple of years wrestling with Another Make (Ford Kuga - comfortable, capable but very expensive and unreliable) I'm back to Skoda and the Fabia estate! I quite enjoy minor tinkering after growing up as a biker (many decades ago!) and can deal with stuff like paintwork, tyres, routine checks and small fixes, but anything computerised or engine-based lands in the garage these days. It also helps that my local garage are Skoda specialists.

 

Look forward to contributing as well as learning here. 

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