ScottHmk4 Fabia vRS - Now with SeatSurgeon leather

[Jdizzy]

Nice car man tbh if I ever sell my Beetha Cupra this will be the next car on my list

What are they like to drive? Mpg ect?

 

[Jim H]

why would you need a 5th wheel granted the spare will be smaller but okay for temporary I had to use a 16 for 2 weeks while my wheel was repaired. I like them wheel above too really different.

The Fabia comes as standard with 16" wheels. In the boot there is a full sized steel wheel with the same sized tyre fitted (205/45 16). However strangely there is a sticker on it limiting you to 50mph (80kph) even though it has a W rated tyre on it. The only difference is it's a steel wheel (same size and offset) not an alloy and has a non-directional tyre on it, (mine's a Michelin Pilot Primacy). There has been many discussions on this, but I don't thing a definitive answer has been found yet.

Do Ibizas have the same problem with a sticker?

If you do buy 5 bigger alloys, remember the spare has to have a non-directional type tyre (i.e. can fit both sides of the car).

 

[Aimez]

No sticker but same wheel black steel wheel same size and same tyre for me. I had the 17s vRS spiders on when I had the spare on (put hole destroyed one!) for a couple of weeks. I asked lots of people if it was onkay to fit it they said yes just may put the speedo out a bit and I hardly used the car. I do actually have a spare vRS one but has the original barley legal and too fat to fit on the car tyre lol!

 

[makaTDI]

Whats your insurance on one of these mate? I cant seem to get insured anywhere, im 18 and ive got 4 years no claims on a shared policy. Getting a bit bored with my ibiza now, and want a diesel..

 

[Damoegan]

How can you be 18 and have 4 years NC......

 

[makaTDI]

Im on a policy that has 4 years no claims on it. Basically liverpool victoria let me transfer over onto a joint policy with my dad, not many insurance companys allow it.

 

[ScottHmk4]

Whats your insurance on one of these mate? I cant seem to get insured anywhere, im 18 and ive got 4 years no claims on a shared policy. Getting a bit bored with my ibiza now, and want a diesel..

Im on a policy that has 4 years no claims on it. Basically liverpool victoria let me transfer over onto a joint policy with my dad, not many insurance companys allow it.

dont understand that, my understanding , your dad has those no claims, you dont, you get no claims for not claiming on YOUR policy, as you being 18 those were not your policys hense not your no claims, they belong to your dad, so next year your dad will be at 5 years NCB and you will be at 1. if your policy does named driver discounts. you cant get no claimed discounts when you cant drive, simple.

as for my insurance im around £1070 but because i pay monthly with interest it works out like £1200

 

[makaTDI]

I dont understand how its been done but it has, my brother did the same thing, i pay 1300 on a 1.4 sport but they wont insure me on a vrs for some reason. what insurer are you with?

 

[ScottHmk4]

I dont understand how its been done but it has, my brother did the same thing, i pay 1300 on a 1.4 sport but they wont insure me on a vrs for some reason. what insurer are you with?

well thats because a vRS is a 1.9Tdi, and a 1.4 is a lower powered engine with a lower insurance group. it will be your age and inexperience going against you, i have been driving 3 years, 2 years NCB and am 20, insurance is ok for that power of engine, tbh no claims bonuses dont do a massve lot for you untill you get to 21 i think, im hoping my insurance will drop a a good deal next year.

 

[S3 AKR]

The reality is that when you're old enough to get the age related discounts, the base prices will have gone up so much year on year that you'll be no better off in terms of hard cash, but you'll hopefully be earning more so its less of a burden. Then you get married and you're screwed financially anyhow until you're in your 30's. All 3 of my cars were cheaper to insure with "and spouse" ticked. Guess they see you as old, sensible and settled.

 

[Jim H]

...as for my insurance im around £1070 but because i pay monthly with interest it works out like £1200

Ouch That's a lot!

I'm not going to tell you what I pay for mine. Although it's about double what my dad pays on his Impreza Turbo.

 

[ScottHmk4]

alloys going in on tuesday to get done silver, with a hint or sparkle lol. and should get new centre caps too, part of my xmas, but because its a group buy am getting this one early. really havnt been keen on the black at all, and if i was i would want them redone anyways as whoever painted them appears to have used a spray can and there chipped to bits. anyways i will get pics when done.

 

[BIGTAM3]

Nice looking car there Scott nice and clean. Get a remap and lowered first when you have the money. You wont be disappointed with these 2 upgrades then just work away on the rest of your list.

 

[ScottHmk4]

got the alloys refurbed today, well chuffed. car needs a wash and al get some of them fitted but heres a few i got before they got fitted,

sparkly sparkly

also those are new centre caps too

 

[4937Liam]

Just read the whole RR, you have a very nice car - I have real sort spot for these cars.

 

[ScottHmk4]

so i got fed up playing xbox and decided to go and take the 2 alloys back to my mate, armed with my camera, so went back to an old haunt where i got photos of the ibiza, and also some at the railway arches just in town too, anyways enjoy.

 

[MrNorma]

looking good mate, how does the sparkle show up in the light?

 

[Alex 17]

Not a fan on the alloys , I thought you would have got new ones all together by now

 

[ScottHmk4]

looking good mate, how does the sparkle show up in the light?

got a different style of silver spakle from yours, more like my old alloys on the ibiza but instead of titaniam its silver, but not as much, yeh it shows up well.

Not a fan on the alloys , I thought you would have got new ones all together by now

there just the standard alloys mate, and im undecided if im gonna mod this car. i will get xenons etc but i mean big mods. might keep these alloys because i like them. i dont want to have to declare mods, time will tell but for now its staying "standard"

 

[Alex 17]

I figured a set of octy alloys would of been on the cards rather than 200 + on a refurb