I was driving home yesterday when something odd happened with the Windscreen wipers on my Fabia. I tried to use my front windscreen washer and my back windscreen wiper moved.  I soon found out that moving the wiper control up and down did nothing and trying to use the back wipers did nothing either. After [...]

I had a phone call from the Skoda garage today telling me that the flange wasn’t going to be here by Monday. Apparently they had to order the thing in from Germany. In the mean time I am catching the bus into work at the moment, which is stupidly expensive. It costs me £2.40 for [...]

I took the Octavia down to the garage in Llandysul today, I had booked this on Monday. I was hoping that I could get it all sorted on the same day. However, after examining the wheel area the mechanic told me that the bearing and the flange had been bent and needed replacing. Although they [...]

I took the Octoavia to Kwik-Fit this afternoon to get a new wheel and tire for the car. Everything was fine until they spun the wheel on this machine they have there. It was noticeably buckled. So we kept the spare wheel on until I could get a new wheel and put the car on [...]