My Fabia is sitting in the drive but I have been unable to tax it so I can just fiddle with things sitting in the drive.

I don't think the Parking Assist works. When I first select Reverse there is a beep then a longer tone but if I then get out and walk around the back of the car there is no further noise.

If I disengage Reverse then re select it there i no further beep or tone, If it works, great, but if it doesn't I am not too concerned, as I have never had Parking Assist before, so I shan't miss it.

The other thing I tried to test was the Corner lamps which didn't seem to work but I realise now I didn't have the engine running when I tried them.

I am sure I will have further questions.

Stop messing and wait untill you start driving, normally the park assist works when the engine is running and revearse is selected you get a beep on selection then as you get near to the obstruction the beeps get quicker untill they are a constant noise, the most common fault is the sensor in the bumper these fail quite often and are expensive to replace unless you can get a deal on old stock, bumper needs to be removed to fit new ones

A good use of this time, if you're not already doing so, is to read the Owner's Manual, and in future refer to it as required, to learn more about your car than many long term owners know.   If you've not got the paper printed copy then you can download a pdf copy using your VIN or model (part) year. -https://manual.skoda-auto.com/004/en-com/Models

 

I think it's a very good idea to check and set everything you can before you actually use the car and to familiarize with it, better now to be messing around with it than when driving on the road, modern cars are already fitted out to be far too distracting for drivers, better now to make mistakes and ask questions. 

 

IIRC (a rare event) you have a new car battery fitted so you can start the engine and get the engine and car fully warmed up, check with oil temperature gauge if fitted and not just coolant temperature gauge, whilst you test all the systems you can on the car depending on how long your drive is engage at least first and reverse and move the car a short distance perhaps.

 

You can also do all the driver's checks you should do (and most of us forget to do often enough) do not trust the garage to have done so or done properly, tyre pressures can often be out (but allow for weather variances from setting).

 

Good luck.

 

I downloaded the manual as soon as I bought the car and have now been through it about three or four times. Each time I find something new I missed or didn't understand the previous reading. Today I familiarised myself with the MFD and reset both the memories. Turns out the battery was not replaced after all. The salesman "spoke in error" but he did tell me the battery had not been replaced when he was handing over the car. I have the car connected up to a SMART charger so the battery is in tip top condition each time I go to it. I moved to this house about 18 months ago and my mileage dropped from 16K a year to 3K. Because my car is unused for two or three weeks at a time I thought the charger was a good idea.

I have checked all the fluid levels but still have my tyre pressures to do. That is not something I relish in the rain and it has barely stopped since the car was delivered. I will however check and adjust them before driving.

I have the seats and mirrors adjusted to my liking, today I tuned the radio to the local stations and I have stripped my cameras off the old car (a 2006 Jazz) but have yet to fit them to the Fabia.

The car has the Climatronic system fitted and it seems to work well. The car had a full valet before I got it so the upholstery still has  some moisture to give up.

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

After I posted I saw a post where you put you had a Ford Prefect so guess you might be even older than me and have even more decades of car experience so then thought you might be used to the more comprehensive Driver's Handbooks of the past.

 

VW have some odd ways of doing things and holding or giving information in the Owner's Manual too.  For my wife's 2015 Mk3 the handbook seems to me to have been written by a very young German engineering student then translated to Chinese and from there to English.

 

For the battery charger/maintainer, something I try to highly promote, you probably already know that if your car is a start/stop with associated start/stop battery fitted you'll want an appropriate battery charger/maintainer for regular use.

 

As the air-con isn't used when the car is parked and as the Fabia (as all previous cars) is outside 365/6 I bought a couple of Pingi Dehumidifier bags and keep a moist synthetic chamois in the glovebox (but this is not the frozen north, usually).

 

I'm surprised you've gone from a Japanese car to a basically German car, the German marques aren't the German engineering quality of the previous century.

 

Good luck, you're doing the right thing by looking after the battery, particularly if you have start/stop as VW has even more involved and complex computer programs that don't like car batteries that are too low for their liking and that's not as low as most think.

 

I started driving in 1965 and have been behind the wheel of something ever since. I still enjoy driving, even on today's busy roads.

I do not know if my car has Stop/Start technology or not. It doesn't seem to have it or if it does it hasn't kicked in yet. 

I have 2x1 Kg Silica Gel pouches in the car. I have kept them in the car for the past five years and with judicious regenning they do a good job of keeping the car dry.

The reason I went for the Fabia as against another Jazz was purely on cost and availability. The Jazz failed it's MOT, terminally, and I needed a reasonably priced car, quick and local.

You could say it was a "distressed purchase". The Jazz was my first ever Japanese car. I tended to buy SAABs, Volvos and Vauxhalls this last 40 years. never had a Ford newer than a 1956!

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

15 minutes ago, Jocko said:

distressed purchase

 

I know all about them with modern car parts or dealing with the English motor trade.  😄  (I can laugh about them now certainly didn't at the times.)

 

Previous SAABs and Volvos I can well see but Vauxhall(?) my only experience of them was when the USA government were bailing out GM so possibly not at the best time.  Having had a few old and brand new English cars and a few Japanese cars I know which are best for reliability - but not full driving enjoyment necessarily.  Never had a SAAB though I always fancied a 96 or 99.  I've been driving old (lower value)  over-priced and over-valued cars called "classics" for the last 30 years as dailies along with new or more modern cars so coming to the modern VWSkoda was a bit of a shock (air filter change every 6 years and not 6 months) and the intrusive computer programs.  Legally driving and passed the test in 1977 so the "classics" were just old bangers then and from the 60s but they were more modern than the 1973 Midget I was driving until a few months ago.

 

Not having the start/stop at least is one less very involved complication you don't have to worry about.  I'm sure you'll be sorted with your Fabia and 3k-miles is just about enough to keep it turning well (depending on the mileage spread and journey types and lengths), I know cars that barely do 300miles, not so good for proper use).

 

I had two SAAB 99s one behind the other. I had a Carlton and a 2.0L Cavalier CDi, both lovely cars and both automatics. I followed that with a Volvo S40 auto so ended up with 25 years and no need to use my left leg.

I had a spell as a bus driver which were also automatics so I took ill out when I reverted to the manual Jazz.

@Jocko The reversing alarm and Stop/Start (if fitted) only work when you're reversing the car and/or in normal driving with the engine up to temperature. By your own testament, neither of these conditions has yet applied,

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

The 99 I was thinking of getting in the early 1990s but they were all too expensive as a second and old car.  We did go and look at a 9000 with about 120k-miles on it but test driving it I found it to be too big for what we needed, I like small nippy cars and had no ned for comfortable cruisers.  I had a mate that was a company rep for various small private companies and always got a flashier model in the range (along with low basic and high commission) and I'd get to drive those cars and can particularly remember a pair of Mk3 Cavalier SRi, one soon issued after the other.  The first was very quick to me used to older slower cars and designs, the second was noticeably slower, whether this was because it was a Friday afternoon car or because it was designed but not fully real-world tested to run on the yet to be introduced unleaded petrol, or a bit of both I don't know, or perhaps the first car was well above average.  An Astra 1300S that he somehow wrangled when working as a shop manager was used to carry some real railway sleepers from a disused railway as a base for another mate's shed, these were real not DIY garden centre ones, so heavy, how the rear springs survived I don't know, if it'd been night the headlights would have been at the treetops.

 

The Fabia Mk3 may well have entirely different programing but with my wife's Mk3 the reversing sensor screen with bleep if the gear lever has been left in reverse with just turning the ignition on without starting the engine and stop/start works at a certain engine temperature but certainly below normal operating temperature in my experience of short journey driving.  I've not noticed if the coolant gauge is at it's biased 90 needle straight up but I don't think the oil temperature wouldn't be at 80 let alone 90 or 95, but I've not done a study on this just my perceptions.