Great video. I find for longevity, that any cables that have started to crack will be a problem sooner or lately. Depin each cable one at a time and put a bit of heat shrink on it. Once you get the hang of it you can do a whole connector quite quickly.

@markrainford1219

29 күн бұрын

Is that a special tool?

great video again, i like the way you explain everything in detail, plus its always satisfying to fix all those niggling little faults!

12:55 I really did think that the door would hit the wall 😬

@isctony

3 жыл бұрын

I held my breath lol

@wimw666

3 жыл бұрын

scary moment, that was...

@ZintomV1

3 жыл бұрын

Breath taking! xD

The seatbelt issue was funny but we all have them moments 😂

@rotary_turbo99

3 жыл бұрын

100% once did a clutch and gearbox change on my friends car, we were fighting the new gearbox for a solid 40 minutes. It was only after this that we decided to compare it to the old one. What do you know? they bolt pattern was different and it was the wrong gearbox xD 😂

@ezekieljulius1867

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to be off topic but does any of you know a tool to get back into an Instagram account?? I was stupid lost the login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me.

@everettjoseph6400

2 жыл бұрын

@Ezekiel Julius instablaster :)

@ezekieljulius1867

2 жыл бұрын

@Everett Joseph Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process now. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@ezekieljulius1867

2 жыл бұрын

@Everett Joseph it did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy! Thank you so much, you saved my ass !

Loving all the videos, great yo chill out too. Crazy as it sounds, it’s worth checking the dealers prices sometimes for parts. They are actually cheaper sometimes. I ordered a new drainage pipe for my mk7 golf. eBay £15. Vw direct £5.40

The little Skodas coming along nicely now James, can’t wait to see it shined up will be cracking looking.

Just a suggestion James but i would get some Silicone lubricant and spray inside the window channels.

Great jobs on the Skoda , that should make a nice motor all cleaned up, Best wishes.

My 2008 Honda Civic does the same and beeps at me if I don't have seatbelt on. Sometimes it can be easy to overlook the obvious as I've done many a time but you are absolutely correct to check that there are no more serious issues lurking for absolute peace of mind. The Skoda will be a brilliant little car so you will be proud of a job well done.

Brilliant video. Nice to see some cheap fixes that we could all do. James, as ever, very inspirational. Thank you.

James you forgot about the head light adjuster. Keep doing what your doing, best channel on you tube 👏 👍

Love watching you pamper a car that's a decade old. I have the exact same car (1.2HTP) trim and love it till now. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, I drove straight into a pothole and now I hear a creaking sound on the left side like worn mattress every time I ride over a speedbump. It's embarrassing. The problem is this. I can't pinpoint the issue. And it isn't there waiting to be found but I know it's the left wheel because that's the side that took the beating. When I start the car each morning and drive, the sound is non existent, but then after covering a few kilometers the sound emerges till I leave the car parked for hours. I have already performed a visual inspection around both springs and arms looking for clunky ball joints or leaks. So far there's none which is what confuses me. I have also lifted the car on wheel jack to attempt the 6 and 9-o-clock wobble test on both front wheels and nothing seems to move oddly out of place. Is there anything you can suggest now that you have worked this close on your car?

The name for that rubber grommet that goes from the pillar to the door in the trade is known as a snorkel !👍

Nice one James, those little jobs all help bring the car back upto scratch.

Such a great idea with the parcel shelf peg. I have a snapped 1 in my citroen. And I'm going to copy your idea. So glad you filmed this James

@skunner2k4

3 жыл бұрын

Or i used a long bolt with a fat head and several washers and nuts

@johnriach1220

3 жыл бұрын

or do as i did ,an attach a nut n bolt to the shelf itself, when refitting ,you push the bolt end in 1st ,then push the right side in to keep it in place ,saves a lot of time n fiddling? fixed my own that way...

😂😂🤣🤣🤣 the seat belt problem was funny when u realised it was normal. The "can you belive this guy rebuilt a gearbox" got me dead 😂

@5bananas1

3 жыл бұрын

Savage 😄

Most of the plastic on vehicles is made out of ABS, interior trim, bumpers, glovebox doors etc. You can glue these plastic parts using the same solvent adhesive used to stick waste pipe together, cheap, permanent and strong. And because it is a solvent it takes on the colour of the original part and if you use it carefully you can sand and polish visible parts until the repair is almost invisible.

drivers seat don't need an occupancy sensor car can't drive itself lol..

@TheShinyShow

3 жыл бұрын

I get it though, my car warns me when I start moving, not all the time so it's a bit unusual if non-VAG.

@callmefoxie2950

3 жыл бұрын

yup. same on my 2009 Peugeot 207cc. The driver side doesn't need occupancy sensor, only the passenger does. :)

@rayhowe4354

3 жыл бұрын

Good job done.

Absolutely awesome vid 👍🏻. I love that sense of achievement when you get things done on a car, test them out for the first time and they work. That wasn’t a bodge job on the parcel shelf, that was genius and resourcefulness at work.

nice explanatory video for soldering the cables between doors, thanks!. One like from Czech Republic! :)

Very clear instructional video as I have a problem between the door and the body now I understand how to repair the wiring. Kind regards Tony from Sweden.

Great video. I loved how happy you were in solving the Elec Window fault... YESSS! We're happy for you too. Great Channel 😀

Great video, I always enjoy Škoda content of any kind, this was an inexpensive but effective result, well done James!!.

Seat belt system is part of the airbag system, on almost all cars. Some seat belt buckles have an explosive pretentioner that yanks the seat belt tight when the airbags go off. The systems also check if its worth setting of the airbag on the passenger if their isn't one and also why you can turn it off so you don't kill kids in a baby seat. They are all differnt though. All manufactures have their quirks.

A lot of vehicles have the wiring ports at different heights on the door and pillar. This allows the loom to twist along its length rather than repeatedly bend in one place.

Well done James, its all the little jobs that gives great satisfaction when you fix them yourself. 👍👍👍👍👍

Lovely job m8. Your videos are improving my knowledge abouts cars quite considerably. Please keep uploading the great work

Great vid as always mate! Happy to see you back on a regular basis 👍🏽

your soldering was good actually, my only concern is that joint will no longer flex as it should and could break again

Nice to see you back James. Good video 👍

Another good lesson thanks for all the help. Tom

Typically vag cars tend to have a sensor on the passenger front seat so when it senses pressure and the seat belt isn’t being used it sounds a charming sound while the wheels are turning. That’s what the extra wiring loom is👍

Parcel shelf in no way a bodge job, that Sir is a repair and nothing wrong with that. Very well done.

I love the fact you can take the Mick out of yourself rather than cutting it out of the video, it shows you know what entertainment is and don't take yourself seriously. Kudos my brother, keep up the good work. 🤣👌🏿👍🏾😁

Glad you kept that clip James, a was in stitches mate. Loving the vids keep it up👌

Thanks for not making me bored this weekend

Another great video James hope you are going to do a detailing video on the Skoda keep up the great content👌🏻

learned so much about my skoda thanks to your videos bud, appreciated a lot thanks man👍👍👍👍

Another great video, more great content! Love the vids mate, learning a thing or two from watching you! Haha good job 👍🏻

well done james i bet you are chuffed doing the jobs on the skoda great video as always stay safe

Always eagerly await your vids, you must give loads of confidence to aspiring spannermen saving themselves money Keep up the good work

I got one of those. It stays on when engine and belt not on. Same on the similar models to those, ie Ibiza, Polo, etc.

Good work keep it up by far my favourite youtuber keep it real and haven't strayed from your roots of working on your driveway with everyday cars and everyone can relate to 👍👌

Wire snapping... the absolute bane of my existence. I have a 2006 Ford Fairlane and a super common issue is for the indicator stalk wires to snap. Sure enough all of mine had either snapped or were about to snap. I only noticed because my dash lights wouldn't turn on with my headlights. I'm just glad my headlights kept working until I was able to fix it!

In my experience, always, the first job to do with Fabia Mk 1 electronics is to use the scan tool to read and then zero all the faults and then start the engine again and see if the codes re-appear. I've found that just re-installing the battery after a re-charge is sufficient to generate random error codes - let alone anything like reflected 5G signals. However, I've also found that , sometimes, these apparently random error codes are early signs of later component failure, with real effect. Had exactly this issue after a lockdown battery re-install this week. Took the thing for a run without doing a scan first. It was obvious , whilst driving on a motorway, that the engine was overfuelling at high RPM - even with my foot off the accelerator and the engine at operating temperature, the car was accelerating up a 1 in 60 hill. On later scanning, VCDS showed an EGR "Excess-flow" error code and error codes for both door modules. After zeroing these, car ran normally after a second run and error codes did not recur. In fact, I'm wondering if there's a bit of water temperature mis-reporting that's at the base of the apparent EGR problem. Lucky my car pre-dates stop/start, ' cause re-installing the battery or putting in a new one can involve re-coding the ECU - colloquially known as "A right ball-ache".

Love your honesty with videos show that we are all human and can make mistakes love the content keep up great work.

Great video, well done with the gearbox! Hope you make a tasty profit on this motor for future projects! Keep up the good work man!

That concentration face when you was soldering killed me 😂

Hope you get to 100k subs soon. Great content fully explained as always.

That moment when you talk yourself into fault finding a code that wasn't really there ... LOL ... love those moments 😀

Nice one James good luck with the deep clean

"can you believe this guy rebuilt a gearbox" - good on you, it is good to have a humble attitude at times. Thank you for the smile!

great job as always matey!

the blue and the black wire in that door loom were looking to give up too, surprised you didn't fix them .

i had a Skoda Fabia and had the same problem, but 5 of my wires had perished. i think its a problem across the board with the wires breaking. cheap cables. had to drill rivets out from speaker because the access is a NONE. thank you for great videos.

Brilliant videos, keep up the good work!

Omg.its got to be a ...we finish at 5 and this car needs pulling off the production line. mine is a 2oo9 .original batterry .same with all suspension all its had since new after covering 125000 miles is a serpentine belt.2 cambelt changes.normal service procedures and tyres.and never shown a fault light on dash .love her never let me down in 14 years ❤

Very enjoyable video mate has usual you have done a first class job on all those things that needed doing and u showed us a trick how to save money with the repaire on that parcel shelf I love it well done Phil in stoke

All I would say with that solder repair is that the wire has already broken when it’s a flexible wire and soldering it has just made a previous break point hard but brittle. Would be surprised if it last for a decent time. What I would look at doing different in the future if I was you would be looking at depinning the connector and putting a new wire and pin in

Top class bodgery. I'm glad you found your mojo for KZread again. Always enjoy your vids 👌

@benholroyd5221

3 жыл бұрын

Where's the bodging?

@doosanengineer7659

3 жыл бұрын

@@benholroyd5221 he said himself he thought the parcel shelf idea was a decent bodge. I would have done exactly the same.

Another great content james love the vids keep them coming bud

another good video James. I do like these type of car tinkering vids. I might have just put a bit of grease or lube on the window mechanism whilst you had the card off though. Good stuff. Thumbs up from me. Definitely one of the best car channels on here.

I had a 2006 1.2 Polo and the drivers window stopped working, mechanic told me it was the regulator which ended up costing £150 but it wasn't even that. Took it to a mechanic who knew what he was doing and it was the wires in the door were pinched/corroded. Luckily got the money back for the regulator.

12:55 jheez that was very close😬😬 great informative content as always James, really satisfying stuff👍🏼

Lovely Jubbly, a senior moment.

Great Fix sort of thing i Would do.My electric window rail broke window went down uneven so i cable tied it back togther and it works.

great, work, i mamaged to fox my focus horn, it worked i think one of the connectors wasnt on properly so only the high tone was sounding, and i have a parkside soldering station and a workzone strippper, so much better than sidecutters, sometimes you dont grip hard enough and dont strip it or too hard and cut the wire

Nice job on the door wiring James, it’s looking good 👍

Looking forward to the next one James! 👍🏼

Great work some good fixes 👌

Wire soldering solved the problem for a very short time for me. Soon it broke again. Then i replaced a longer pieces (20 cm or so) of all the wires. A lot more work, but it's good now.

Very productive video. I have same colour same model car only the difference is TDI... Please tell me how to fix headlights beam adjustment issue

One of my favourite tools is my gas soldering iron,similar to Antex type.

Great days work there, top job on parcel shelf too

Great video that’s exactly how I soldier my wires and use heat shrink you know it’s safe

Lovely little car, I've had one for a couple years now and have no real complaints. Could use a bit more horsepower but seeing as I'm in stop&go traffic all the time its more than enough for the job. One thing I will say is if your going to buy one of these change the timing chain as soon as possible, they are known to fail in these cars and cause piston slap. I had to swap the engine out because the previous owner had abused the living hell out of it, the chain was so badly stretched it was actually loose, I'd estimate about 10% longer than a new one, and of course this finally messed up the timing enough to cause a bad case of piston slap, took a chunk out of the piston and bent a valve severely.

It’ll be MOT’d before you know it. I had the same issue with the wiring loom to the door.

Haha! We've all had those brain-farts mate. Really looking forward to the detailing on this Skoda. I had a wire breakage on my E91 Touring where the central locking was intermittent, turns out there was a wire break in the same place, the rubber protector on the tailgate door.

And well done finding the problem.

Thanks for the video respect from Ireland my friend

well done fella,top job

content is 10/10. Keep up the good videos How is your dad haven’t seen him on th channel in ages

Great job mate another way of fixing the parcel shelf is to use a wooden dowl and give it a paint the same colour as interior bit of a bodge but it's functional lol

Brilliant video by the way as well 😉 👍

Enjoying the progress with the Skoda James be a nice car when finished

Hi I like the video this is my first time keep up the great work 👍🏻

jobs well done James

Also silicone spray for the window runners makes them run smoothly

I think that the electronics might cleverly assume that, if the engine is running, there must be a driver. :) So, for economy, no driver sensor.

@Keirdo69r

3 жыл бұрын

Noticed the same thing on my Qashqai just yesterday, thought it was an issue as light wouldnt go out then the penny dropped lol

@benholroyd5221

3 жыл бұрын

@@Keirdo69r now the mistake you made is buying a qashqai

@georgemiller4585

3 жыл бұрын

@@benholroyd5221 2nd that absolute stinker of a car

Job well done buddy

Spline fasteners have become so common on German cars now, it’s just an alternative to Allen keys. They are usually used for safety related situations, airbag stuff, seats, axles, wheel hubs, engine dampeners from what I have seen on VWs, BMW are big on their etorx bolts which I have head break more commonly than regular bolts.

Lovely job. Good soldering. In my experience these things don't get fixed because dealers mechanics can't be arsed to. They only fix the things that appear as a fault code or what the customer reports (If you're lucky and its not a wet Wednesday). Surely, good professional mechanicing is about fixing everything you find and not giving it a "Stiff ignoring". I can't understand, given that at least 50% of car components have a digital address within the chassis electronics system, why manufacturers aren't using a single fibre optics with multiplexed digital signal for control electronics combined with infra-red transmitter and receivers to bridge air gaps . . like this door hinge. Then the only copper wiring needed would be the ring power circuits positive side and the take offs - huge potential saving in production cost and definate improvement in reliability and the customer experience. I can't believe that fibre optics couldn't be made robust enough for use in mobile vehicle wiring . . . one wonders what the control wires in Mr Boston Dynamics dog are made from.

Need some silicone grease in those window rubbers. Had to chuckle regarding the seatbelt light, easily overlooked though.

The savage landlord evicts sitting tenant!!!!!! all seriousness its nice when you can fix stuff without costing anything. All the best.

Good video, job done👍

Another Brilliant video love the bodge... and the seatbelt light was a little funny but thts how we all learn..... but I have to ask what happend to the engine code that came up witht the airbag codes when on the diagnostic machine?

Great video - thanks very much.

Nice little jobs

Nice looking Fabia James 👍🏼

Love the coment "can you belive this guy rebuilt and gearbox" lol... Mate don't worry we all have our daft moments. Love your videos