The last year has been - ehm - not the best when it comes to faults appearing in my '02 1.4 mpi furby combi elegance:

arb-brushes, arb drop-links, dampers/springs (no wonder with 150000km of road behind them...), tempsensor (x2!), tempsensor housing, break light switch, demobilizer, coilpack (x2!), rear wheel bearing (loss of abs-signal), front pads and discs (one pad broke and wore down the disk), rear breakshoes (fair enough - breaks should also need changing every now and then...) - and now I suspect the rest of the suspension is in need of a overhaul as well (knocking all over the place).

I probably should sell the car and go for a different make - but then again - now I have changed so many parts, the car should - theoreticly - be ready for another 150000km...

I've had the brake switch failure and today I've just had my first COP (coil pack) failure - car is 2003 Polo 1.4 - BBY engine. Someone at work had coil pack failures on his wife's 2003 Golf 1.4 when it was just a few months old - at that time I thought all the failures were with the 1.8T engine. Without doing a search, do many people find they are needing to change coils on the BBY engine ? Due to a previous lucky buy on ebay and having VAG-COM, I quickly sorted this out. Now maybe I'll check ebay for any more coil packs - preferably Eldor as I seem to remember it was Bremi that were failing originally. My Polo was fitted with Eldor coil packs so I thought that I was "safe" - the replacement I fitted tonight was also Eldor from roughly the same manufacturing period.

The last year has been - ehm - not the best when it comes to faults appearing in my '02 1.4 mpi furby combi elegance:

arb-brushes, arb drop-links, dampers/springs (no wonder with 150000km of road behind them...), tempsensor (x2!), tempsensor housing, break light switch, demobilizer, coilpack (x2!), rear wheel bearing (loss of abs-signal), front pads and discs (one pad broke and wore down the disk), rear breakshoes (fair enough - breaks should also need changing every now and then...) - and now I suspect the rest of the suspension is in need of a overhaul as well (knocking all over the place).

I probably should sell the car and go for a different make - but then again - now I have changed so many parts, the car should - theoreticly - be ready for another 150000km...

sounds like you have a good one:) nearly as many faults as my one has had

whats 150000km? mines done 76k (miles) new drive shaft and new breaks in the next 10k... gone through a couple sets of tyres, err... pas sensor went. and heated seat.... thats about it.

close to 100k miles?

Forgot a couple of things : leaky doors, and the hornsounder broke...

To be honest i have had similar problems myself including stuff garage (not skoda) do not seem to be able to cure. I am not sure if i would ever again buy a car of skoda make even though i must admit the reason I bought this fabia was because fof the reliability of them or so I was told. I need the car for work and not sure what gonna go wrong next.

I thought they were bullet-proof and built by Volkswagen so they never go wrong ? :confused:

to be fair, mine has got over 100k on the clock, and she hasn't exactly had a sheltered life :eek: