New Fabia picked up yesterday. Cayenne orange yet again, full service history, two new tyres and in very clean condition.  

 

No plans as such other than a good service and the usual bushes. Needs a window reg so I’ll do that with a new ‘how to’ for the guides section I think. 

Took him like a King...

Is this full “slayer” spec Ross?

 

Looks well in fairness, can’t be many about nowadays? When I was selling them the only ones we sold of these were forced allocated to the dealers as registered cars, you used to get a 2.0 Fabia delivered along with a 1.9 sdi saloon usually. They had to be cheap to shift them.

I haven’t seen many. 2002 Elegance so no cruise control (can this be retrofitted? 😋) but electric rear windows. 

Didn't realise they did a 2.0 Fabia, had to Google it for confirmation!

1 hour ago, Paul thornton said:

Didn't realise they did a 2.0 Fabia, had to Google it for confirmation!

 

The photo is pretty good conformation lol

Ahh the rare Mustang killer.

 

Looks in very good condition Ross 👍

Very nice.

Still miss ours, and we had 4 lecy Windows. Those alloys are still one of the nicest designs.

Ours had stiffer springs and ARB fitted and was great.

18 hours ago, mdk1 said:

Those alloys are still one of the nicest designs.

 

I know right, I have a spare set of 312 mm brakes too and toyed with the idea of putting them on but can't and keep these wheels.

Edited 11 September, 20196 yr by Tech1e

That looks very clean, any interesting plans for it?

didn't know they used the VW (mk4 golf gti) 2.0 petrol engine in the fabia

 

shame it's not the 16v version

 

Looks very tidy for its age.

Decided to give it a thorough service and check over today. 

 

Full service inc:

 

Engine oil

Engine oil filter

Air filter

Fuel filter

Spark plugs

HT leads

Gearbox oil

 

And I wanted to have a crack at polishing the headlights as they were quite opaque. 

 

Went wrong almost at the start when the sump plug pulled the thread out of the sump, sigh. Still I had half a mind to drop the sump anyway to check the oil pick up pipe so at least that’s checked off the list now. Fuel filter was the original and some 17 years old, certainly didn’t want to come off, but got there in the end. 

On 12/09/2019 at 10:30, Eddie-NL said:

didn't know they used the VW (mk4 golf gti) 2.0 petrol engine in the fabia

 

shame it's not the 16v version

 

 

I know but then there wasn’t a 16v version of this engine in the MK4 Golf either. The ABF was replaced by the 1.8T really I guess, both 150 bhp and wouldn’t make much sense to have both. 

Getting stuck in as always Ross, at least you’ll know it’s a solid base once you’ve tackled this initial work 

Some new stoppers for upfront on the Fabia. 😎

Also got myself a sand blasting cabinet, so things are getting cleaned up ready for some new bearings and bushes

Ooh equipment envy over the blasting cabinet Ross☺️

Few more pics from things being built up to put on etc. 

Lovely lovely shiny bits! Lofty approves 👍🏻👍🏻

21 hours ago, Lofty said:

Lovely lovely shiny bits! Lofty approves 👍🏻👍🏻

 

I aim to please

 

Subtle but obvious (if that makes any sense whatsoever 😂😂) mod with the new S1 calipers Ross, look right at home behind the lovely style of the OE 2.0 15”s

47 minutes ago, Lofty said:

Subtle but obvious (if that makes any sense whatsoever 😂😂) mod with the new S1 calipers Ross, look right at home behind the lovely style of the OE 2.0 15”s

They kinda confuse as S1 brakes are 310mm which won’t fit behind 15” alloys. 
 

So these are actually MK2 Fabia vRS calipers and carriers that use the same 288 mm discs. I just refurbed them in gloss black after drilling and tapping to fit the S1 plates