Fuel consumption is ace.

Performance is ace.

Tyres are the only downer but as seen as it never rains in Bitain why worry?

If you want to know about servicing. Give me a shout in a month. I have done 7500 and do 100+ per day. It won't be long now.

Certainly not ugly!

Just got to get the vRS into a more non-standard state now!

Yep, I agree! Ugly just doesn't do it justice. Hideous, that's the word he was looking for

I have never liked the Fabia. It was originally called Felicia MK 2, I remember pictures of it on the Skoda web site in 1998 and was described as the Felicia MK 2. However when it actually came out it was much more expensive. I have always felt that Skoda should have kept at least its small car in the bargain catagory. Now a days you can buy super minis from several makes with more illustrious badges than Skoda for less than the Fabia. When I bought my first Felicia, it was the cheapest new car on the road in the UK.

I'm with you on that.

Even in CZ, people aren't buying new base model 1 litre Fabias, because they are choosing imported new or used cars for far less money.

The base local model in CZ used to be the most popular, even after the fall of communism, because it offered the best value to the the locals.

Thats gone now of course.

edit, didnt realise this was an old one dug up again.

Like all Fabias they are small and Ugly compared with the Octavia and far too expensive compared with the Felicia that they replaced. :smokin:

:zzz: Not even worth commenting on

re your detailed post

At last a sensible, constructive well thought out acurate post

John

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Yep, I agree! Ugly just doesn't do it justice. Hideous, that's the word he was looking for

:moon:

At last a sensible' date=' constructive well thought out acurate post

John[/quote']

Cheers John (NB: That's from an Octavia driver )

Regarding servicing costs, a few have had them done (I need to book mine in).

Costs vary between around

Yeah but lets be fair the Fabia and the Felicia are completly different animals, the felicia just was not in the same bball park in terms of build/looks/desgn/refinment as the furby is?

Anyhow done 9k in my vRS so far, I'm on Variable Servicing so the cars present will be a trip to AMD or Jabba after it's first service. The standard furby quite easily keeps up with my brothers 172 (gen2) through the back roads, so I have no worries, oh and just as a side note on a trip to portsmouth following my brother I got there 25 minutes before him, almost completly due to him having to refuel and me not!

Get the furby you wont be disapointed.....

I'm on Variable Servicing

Please check that. Fabia RSs are not available with variable servicing. :eek:

following my brother I got there 25 minutes before him

A nice trick if you can manage it

Just goes to show that Fabia RS drivers are drug addled loons :P

:D :D

Just goes to show that Fabia RS drivers are drug addled loons :P

But then...you'd have to be...

Rob.

Please check that. Fabia RSs are not[/b'] available with variable servicing. :eek:

Maybe the ape did get his switched to variable before the "truth" came out. I for one will be sticking to fixed.

Just goes to show that Fabia RS drivers are drug addled loons :P

:D :D

Yes, Mr Tixa

BTW, is yours on fixed or variable? Considering all the mods like the magic tree air freshner and you having a SDI, I don't know if variable servicing is recommended or even available

But then...you'd have to be...

Rob.

Hey, Rob, wanna swap your fridge magnet for my rollerskate?

What ya mean Truth about Variable Service? Just curious, My dealer changed it over to variable for me. You can get any VAG car on Variable Service beides the Lupo's (cant remember what Seat call there version of it), or so I was lead to beleive. And it's now gone past 10K without asking me to serivice it, and the sticker in the bonet says VS, so I assume it is? Oh well soon find out if the service light comes on.

Ashleigh...

Somewhere on Briskoda there's a copy of an e-mail from Skoda UK which states categorically that the Fabia RS CAN NOT be put onto variable servicing by either a Dealer or Merlin the Magician. The car does not have all the sensors needed for variable (i forget exactly which sensors it's short of)

Your dealer may be convinced it can be done, but if it comes to a warranty claim and Skoda decide to investigate you may have a nasty shock. Better get it in writing from your dealer that they will take responsibility for your warranty if Skoda wash their hands of it.

Just found the link...

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8413

Cheers Geoff, that's the one I was thinking of

As said, the Fabia doesn't have the required sensors to be put on variable servicing. Mine has now done 12,500 miles and still not got the service light on, though I did service it at 10,000. The light doesn't always seem to come on when it should!

Thanks for the link to the info, I shall be having words with my dealer.... Let you know what the outcome is.