Paging the VAG heads.

What, on price? Seems about right. 2005 ones seem to go at about 5-5.5 with a bit less miles.

Just seems that most of the others here abouts are £500-£1k more with more miles for a similar age.

I know this is a modifications group, but I would be scared of buying any modified car. It may be more difficult to thrash a turbodiesel, but you know what I mean.

Seems a bit cheap to me, but I don't know what they go for these days heh. The wheels are replicas of the Golf GTi optional wheels, but without the shadow chrome - which is quite good because when you scratch those, no where can refurb them and it means a new wheel. Same problem affects the optional wheels on VXR Astras and Corsas these days, and also the 'Raider' optional wheels on the Clio 197, or the C63 AMG wheels etc etc. Basically anything that has the new trend of highly polished faces, usually with an anthracite colour in between the spokes. As the wheels on that Fabia are just standard alloys without a fancy finish, they can be fixed easily - even if you're DIYing. Which is good considering the close up of that rear one (how small is that brake disc!) shows that wheel is well abused, so you have to imagine the rest are to.

The thing that always put me off the Fabia, was the Ibiza, which looks better both inside and out, and if you must have a diesel then it has the

160bhp one to start with, but I'd personally be happier with the 1.8T petrol engine. Shame they never put that in the Fabia really, if it was cheaper than the equivalent Ibiza and better than the shitty current (possibly not current now actually) Polo GTi 1.8T. The other problem with the Fabia is all that white on the interior, I've always imagined it would be very easy to get a permanent stain on, an also it doesn't look very nice anyway IMO.

You can get 'em refurbed, it's just expensive. The Mk5 RS2000 had the same problem. The wheels were diamond cut and then lacquered. Heat tarnished the lacquer and then water got in and made 'em all fluffy.

There used to be a place near me that did it, but he shut up shop about a year ago.

Yea I've heard that some places take them on, but a new wheel is often cheaper so it's only worth it for a rare type of wheel you can't get new, and / or where the new wheel is mega-bucks. Half of the problem is of course that the faces aren't painted, so it's hard to fill in any gouges or scratches as you can't just paint over the filler when you're done.

Depends what mods have been made, really.

For the sake of £3.95, you could HPI it if that interested.

The wheels do it no favours really, if we're honest.

That's rare and ££££, even a few years old. The FR with the same PD130 is much more common, and a remap will see 170-180 from it. The Fabia was a bit cheaper than the FR too, and had 5 doors, which was rare on an FR and non-existent on the Cupra PD160.

It is a pain. When I had one I kept plastic seat covers in the boot in case I was dirty, and had to vax the interior once or twice.

we had to get some Jaguar XKR alloys refurbed once a year or 2 ago, they were 20inch split rims and proper split rims too cos the guy had to seperate rim from wheel, refurb and place it back, they was the only company around the essex/london area that would do it too and it wasn't cheap! around £150+ i think a wheel if i remember right!