Hello all. just saved a 2007 Fabia II 1.6 16v from the scrappers. Absolutely nothing wrong with it and reminds me very much of driving a MK1 Golf GTi. Nobody told me it's an absolute beast on the twisty stuff Looking forwards to bugging you all and, given time, helping out on here!

 

Best,

 

Chris.

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum. What was the story regarding the Fabia being consigned to scrap? Enjoy. 

7 hours ago, Warrior193 said:

What was the story regarding the Fabia being consigned to scrap? Enjoy. 

 

Looks like a good story for maybe even the project threads?

 

Welcome to the forums, @CeeBee2001.

On 06/03/2022 at 11:51, Warrior193 said:

Hi Chris, welcome to the forum. What was the story regarding the Fabia being consigned to scrap? Enjoy. 

Hi @AnnoyingPentium and @Warrior193 and thanks for your warm welcome Nothing too interesting, really. It was provided by a company I was working for. I was using it to perform Monthly visits on properties for insurance purposes, nationwide. It was doing 3200 miles a Month and as it approached 70,000 miles, it started to need a few things doing (rear shocks, front discs and pads, console bushes, 3rd set of tyres, exhaust section). Nothing out of the ordinary, all items you would expect to be bolting on around the 70K mark. They didn't see this ongoing  £100 a Month or so repair bill as being financially viable, even though the vehicle was helping them to turn over 13,000 a Month. Sometimes, when people aren't car people there's just no getting through to them. Long story short, they decided to sign it's death warrant, I put £200 quid into repairing it and it now drives like it just drove out of the showroom, tight as a drum!! They now have me in an Octavia which itself is approaching 70K and needs pretty much the same work doing. I wonder if they'll see sense this time and realise that cars need parts, repairs and attention when they do 40,000 miles a year

4 hours ago, CeeBee2001 said:

Hi @AnnoyingPentium and @Warrior193 and thanks for your warm welcome Nothing too interesting, really. It was provided by a company I was working for. I was using it to perform Monthly visits on properties for insurance purposes, nationwide. It was doing 3200 miles a Month and as it approached 70,000 miles, it started to need a few things doing (rear shocks, front discs and pads, console bushes, 3rd set of tyres, exhaust section). Nothing out of the ordinary, all items you would expect to be bolting on around the 70K mark. They didn't see this ongoing  £100 a Month or so repair bill as being financially viable, even though the vehicle was helping them to turn over 13,000 a Month. Sometimes, when people aren't car people there's just no getting through to them. Long story short, they decided to sign it's death warrant, I put £200 quid into repairing it and it now drives like it just drove out of the showroom, tight as a drum!! They now have me in an Octavia which itself is approaching 70K and needs pretty much the same work doing. I wonder if they'll see sense this time and realise that cars need parts, repairs and attention when they do 40,000 miles a year

Interesting - the fuel alone would have been costing the company 3 times the monthly repairs. Perhaps a nice Octavia upgrade in the pipeline for you soon?