New Member - Forum has already been a great help

Hello all,

I recently replaced my parents car with their 3rd Fabia, a very nice 21 plate SEL DSG estate. Cracking bit of kit.

So I've "inherited" their old car a Navy Blue 2011 Fabia 2 1.2 "S" 60. I needed a runaround as I was waiting for my new car to arrive, so took it on, and thought I'd fix the niggles and get it ready to sell on.  But to be honest, it's a cracking little car, been parked by touch over the past few years by my ageing parents but with only 50k miles, but drives great, is totally anonymous, and the perfect antidote to the other cars in the household and known by all as the Super Skoda.

So far its had......

A new spare key - the original blade had snapped

A replacement fuel filler cover  -  my dad had walked in to the original and snapped it

Drivers door loom - windows and central locking weren't working, snapped wires in the hinge area.

Drivers door window switch - my mis-diagnosis of the above

Fan resistor pack - common fault on VAG cars of this age. Fan had 2 speeds off and full tilt, now all 4 work

Service pack - plugs, oil, fuel, air and pollen filters

New Bosch aero wipers

2 rear tyres (how much!)

Failed MOT

New front pipe and flexi

Gaskets, rubber mounts and copper nuts for above

New Mot

Will give it a machine polish to try and remove some of the grazes it has and to clean it up a bit - but it won't get any paint, it's too honest a car.

Hope that's it for the time being, let's see how long it lasts before its moved on, but at the moment its fitting in quite nicely into the routine of the household!

the forum so far has been invaluable to fixing the issues so far - a great reference point.  Keep it up all!!