Diesel prices are getting beyond a joke!

Well I filled up our Fabia vRS this morning at our local ESSO petrol station and looked up at the price of the diesel £1.18.9 a litre! Now the vRS has a 45 litres tank capacity which means it's now costing me over £53.50 to fill up a if completely empty!!! How much longer can this go on the way the price of fuel is going could cause major issues for the economy because if it's costing so much to fill up your car just to get to work etc. then your not going to have the money to spend on other goods especially luxury goods!

I was listening to the radio on the way to work the other day and they had a business specialist on who said that they are predicting the cost of diesel will rise to £1.50 a litre by September 2008. That will mean running a small car that can do over 400 miles to a tank of diesel will cost over £65 to fill up and my Golf GT TDI which has a 55 litre tank will cost over £80 to fill up.

Role on the fuel strikes again I say this country is spiraling out of control!!!

Samco Developing turbo kit for the Fabia VRS

I've been interested in replacing the existing hoses to the turbo so contacted Samco to see if they had any that could be used on the Fabia vRS.

Mark at Samco replied back within hours of me filling in there contact for to inform me that they have a kit in development for the Fabia vRS!

The kit will consist of three hoses:

• Hard Pipe - Inlet Manifold


• Intercooler - Hard Pipe


• Turbo Hard Pipe - Intercooler inlet

The kits will hopefully be available within the next month so watch this space as it could be our next mod!

For more information on Samco's hoses visit there site at http://www.samcosport.com

Fitted SEAT PD 160 Intake and drop in filter

Well I went with the Jetex filter in the end for two reasons, one I had a real job ordering a Green Cotton filter I tried through the website but it was having none of it. Secondly i went for Jetex because I've used there filters for the last five years with no problems at all.

The trumpet and intake pipe off the PD 160 SEAT Ibiza are a five minute job to fit to the Fabia vRS all you need is a Philips and a flat head screwdriver.

Remove your battery cover and engine cover to give yourself more room. Then unscrew the Philips head screw situated near the air filter box. You can the work out the pipe from the air box, then using a flat headed screwdriver pop the trumpet out of the holding case attached to the front grill (I slid the screwdriver between the trumpet and case and worked it out.

I then worked the new pipe into the air box you cant get it in wrong as the hole for the screw needs to be facing up. Then push in the new trumpet and work the end of the pipe onto the trumpet. This can be a little awkward but it will go. Finally screw the Philips screw back in and your done!

I had a little more trouble with the drop in filter (what i hear you say???). Well i can recommend that if your going to do this do it before you fit a SEAT strut bar, the reason being it hinders access to the Phillips screw at the back right hand side of the air box.

Once I got that screw out it was a straight forward remove the old filter and drop in the Jetex filter job done!

I've taken the Fabia out for a spin, it usually takes the engine management system a couple of miles to realise that there is more air being pulled in through the air intake, but once it does the car became smoother and more responsive.

For the money around £50 for the pipe and trumpet and £35 for the filter its a great easy mod.