AnnoyingPentium

Thank you for checking though! Greatly appreciated.

I do love a V40 of this vintage, but it appears the seller has whacked some Vaseline over the lens. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202205015232179

My Granda used to drive up lorry bodies to Greenock in a fashion like this.

Little bit sent as I'm not paid until tomorrow.

That's what I was looking for today, the only vac leak I could find was the one at the brake servo. Other things it points to is a crankshaft position sensor (according to a guy on Briskoda who is sending me up one to try FOC), the MAP sensor, the throttle body, or the throttle pedal position sensor, to name a few things. The throttle pedal position sensor is in a wonderful* location, being part of the pedal itself, but that involves pulling the lower half of the dash off. I replaced it last November as it was seriously impacting the drivability of the car, I just got one with a matching p/n from the breakers and hoped for the best.

Probably a placebo in my case. 🤣 My P0171 fault code hasn't went away yet, but I'll clear it and see if it returns.

Bloody make me! 🤣 The old centre cap will be getting knocked out at some point since the one on the damaged alloy matches the rest. Otherwise I'm waiting for the breakers yard marker to come off in the rain as I can't be arsed cleaning it otherwise. Basically the same thing on this petrol one. Brakes were intermittently hard, and sometimes down on power (it's only got 64* horses that I can't afford to lose). I don't have an EGR to worry about anyway, some BME and AZQ codes came with them, mine doesn't, so I can be smug.

The adventures do keep going with the car, even if it doesn't want to. So, let me bring you up to the present day. I drove to Largs the other day and the bloody thing threw a paddy on the A78, killed the engine and brought the brakes on to a nearly dead stop, culminating in me nearly causing a pile up. Anyway, I didn't know what the fuck to do, so turned to Briskoda. First things first (Peter Kay intensifies), checking pipework. Started with the crankcase breather hose... no issue. I then moved onto the brake servo hose. Turns out it had split at the wee joint bit. It's a common issue on the Mk1 Fabia, especially as they age. There's few with the original hose there, but mine happened to be one. I couldn't find a split at first so had to check blindly at the back side of the hose, my fingernail slipped into a fairly decent split at the back. I've now bodged it with some insulating tape until I can get the replacement hose ordered up. 👍 The hose is definitely original though. As said, these hoses tend to split at this little joining area thingy. I don't know if it affects other VAG-shite, but if it does, then you'll know when it goes. In addition to this, I've got a fairly damaged alloy from a mild incident with a kerb in February. It was causing a lot of vibrations, especially when driving at speed. So, since it's just a standard VAG alloy, I jumped on eBay and bought another one. Out with the old... In with the new. The tyre that's on the new one has good tread, but the plan is to swap the tyres over between both and use the damaged one as the new alloy spare. Anyway, that's all... for now. If the brake servo fix doesn't help sort out the car then I'll probably start looking at moving it on and looking at something else that's smol, but not too smol.

There's the Furniture Scheme in Dalmellington, but that's mibbie a bit of a trek. https://gift-furniture-scheme.weebly.com/

You should have made a poll at the top of the thread I reckon.

Have we had this yin? I do like a 75, saw a black FL one in front of me today, just marvellous. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202204295168302?

Our one is a weird spec. It's an Essential with the roof bars, cruise control (and speed limiter), air con (fridge mode), six speakers, 4x2 1.0 turbo as well. It was pre-registered when we got it.

We didn't pay for them either, so even at 5'10 I'm launching myself out the car. 🤣

Am I right on saying I can see the running boards on yours to stop you hurtling to the ground when getting in and out?

Definitely. If I had the space and expertise then I'd have done it myself. Anyway, I've decided I shan't be keeping tabs on how much I've spent on the car and I'll just drive the fucker. Makes for better sleep at night. 🤣

I took a leaf out of your book and made a spreadsheet. I have most of the paperwork in the car but since it's raining I'm not going out to get it, so some are estimates. I've had the car a year as of March and it's covered 10,000 miles with me. The air conditioning was by choice, so subtract the £47 and you're still left with the four figure sum.

What Samara with you...?

Good choices there. I've got that Chris De Burgh tape in my car as well, along with another one but the name escapes me.

We've not been camping yet with ours, we're going down to a static caravan in Silloth during the summer holiday though. It was the Auris we last took camping, with me being drowned in the back with all the various shite we took. A roofbox would probably benefit yous all indeed.

Thoughts on the size of the boot? The dog bloody loves the space he has! 😆

I wouldn't take it anywhere near the sea 😂 I wouldn't take it anywhere near Ayr if I were yous. 😆

She'll not be impressed if you sell the Disco. Get it kept.

I'd rather not see how much the car costs me to keep going, but I reckon it's roughly about £600 so far with more about to add on to that.

Ahhhh so that's where I went wrong!

Temptation being the correct name for that trim level indeed. Do you get a free Heaven 17 cassette though?