Terve!

 

Long-time lurker, first time poster on this forum. I'm an English major film buff from Finland with a bit of experience wrenching on motorcycles and tractors.

I've had my 2009 1.6 Fabia Combi for a while now, bought it used sight-unseen at an auction with 215K on the clock and have since put some 35K into it. My experience from the auction and Fabia was mostly very pleasant because of my only frame of referrence having been the 2001 Fiat Stilo 1.8 I had before, which deappreciated to a point of not being worth the upkeep.

 

In terms of use, the Fabia has seen mostly city use along with a few longer trips back home now and then. So far I've only worked out problems as they come up: cleared out about 1 kg of dog hair and spittle when I received the car, more or less fixed the wiring loom in the doors (still lose the 'door open' signal when driverside is fully open), replaced the rear window wiper motor (you bet the brass tube was corroded through!) and have replaced the transmission oil - my first experience of actually crawling under the car, can't say I enjoy having the hot engine right on top of my head.

 

I'm not sure how long the car will go for, so I haven't put too much effort into fixing certain things like the scratched up rear window or adding a tow bar, despite needing it from time to time and actually owning a utility trailer.

 

Hopefully I'll find some answers here.

Hello and welcome to Briskoda!