Hello all,

 

Another seemingly standard Felicia problem, I've got excessive movement on the gearbox/engine mounts.

Two questions:

- Can anyone confirm part numbers for the parts than need replacing on rear, left and right  mounts? I find the catalogue quite confusing for this one.

- Any words of advice? I have read some of the old posts on this topic, sounds possible but painful to do without removing gearbox.

 

You mean these?

https://www.autodoc.co.uk/vika/13156318

 

https://www.autodoc.co.uk/vika/13155733

 

22 hours ago, TrentBarton said:

sounds possible but painful to do without removing gearbox.

 

I have asked in the past for my 1.3 and they told my it's the same trouble.

Hello everyone,

Got a problem that I cannot figure out here and was wondering if anyone else has solved it. I replaced the gearbox mount with a JP Group replacement. This lasted about a month and then failed (see image below). I then replaced it with a Vika one. This failed within about an hour.

Is there something else I am missing that puts too much pressure on these and causes them to fail?

On 10/03/2025 at 15:17, TrentBarton said:

Hello everyone,

Got a problem that I cannot figure out here and was wondering if anyone else has solved it. I replaced the gearbox mount with a JP Group replacement. This lasted about a month and then failed (see image below). I then replaced it with a Vika one. This failed within about an hour.

Is there something else I am missing that puts too much pressure on these and causes them to fail?

I have MAPCO its been going strong for 4 years now

Original here has 46,69 € while the JP Group has 14,61 €

MAPCO has 14,86 €

2 minutes ago, D.FYLAKTOS said:

Original here has 46,69 € while the JP Group has 14,61 €

MAPCO has 14,86 €

First of all where the hell you found the originals and second are they even worth ?

In a local store (you have to order it), you can check also in Cz stores although it's difficult in translation.

From another Felicia as donor?

Hello both,

Thanks for the comments. Really interesting to hear that you can still find original parts there as well. Following @Thefeliciahacker advice above, I looked at MAPCO ones.

When you buy a Vika one or JP Group one, they come with the steel mounting plate like this:

The MAPCO ones look like they are just the circular units that you have the press into the steel mounting plate:

Interesting the supplier of the MAPCO one has said that they do not think this is the correct part of a MK2 Felicia (2000) 1.6. Any thoughts on that? Is it because I am buying the wrong part that they are failing?

16 hours ago, TrentBarton said:

The MAPCO ones look like they are just the circular units that you have the press into the steel mounting plate:

Interesting the supplier of the MAPCO one has said that they do not think this is the correct part of a MK2 Felicia (2000) 1.6. Any thoughts on that? Is it because I am buying the wrong part that they are failing?

If the picture is correct, this is 1.3 engine mount. That indeed isn't compatible with 1.6.

The bottom gearbox mount is also different - 1.6/1.9 uses larger diameter mount and the metal brackets is slightly angled, because the VW engine is mounted higher than the Skoda one. But I cannot tell which is which just from picture.

18 hours ago, TrentBarton said:

When you buy a Vika one or JP Group one, they come with the steel mounting plate like this:

for 1.3 there were full with bracket

Hello all,

Thanks for the advice so far. I am still trying to figure this out and have been going through parts diagrams today. Further complicated by the VIN not being recognised, even when I used the converter in this post.

So the parts diagram suggest that if you have a 2000 1.6 then you need 6U0 199 427, rather than 6U0 199 427A which is for the 1.3

However, I purchased and fitted the 6U0 199 427 here and it still broke within a month. So either it is incorrectly labelled or poor quality or perhaps there is another problem.

I am now considering buying just the bush as this is what breaks. That would be part 6U7 199 849. There is only one supplier in Italy selling this and it is quite expensive.

Could there be something else that is causing the mount to fail? I don't want to spend lots of money on the bush and then break that one. For example, could there be a problem with 6U0 199 331 here that is causing the other mount to fail?

15 hours ago, TrentBarton said:

Further complicated by the VIN not being recognised

I have the same issue with mine.

My car is legitimate, bought new from an Official Skoda dealer but the VIN practically does not help me at all trying to find parts.

Glad I am not the only one! It works on some decoders but not others.

So my new plan is to replace all three mounts on the gearbox and hope that if all three are new then there shouldn't be excess force going through any single one. A bit expensive and hard work but I can't understand why else both the Vika and the JP Group manufactured 6U0 199 427 part would fail so quickly.

So I am now going to buy all of these and fit and see if it solves it.

1) 6U0 199 427

2) 6U0 199 331

3) 6U0 199 555 A

The 6U0 199 331 does look particularly suspect so maybe that is causing the 6U0 199 427 to fail:

I know from the Felicia Haynes manual that the positioning of this end mount in your latest picture is fairly important: as they recommend that you spray paint around that upper plate to guide yourself to the correct position when re-fitting it, which I always did. Maybe yours has been put back out of position in the past, as I can't see any paint!, and that could be causing extra stress on the rear mount?. Trial and error fitting this one last and maybe loosely fitting whilst supported underneath by a trolley jack and see if it settles itself to a particular position...