1998 Skoda Felicia Combi 1.3

[Kubboz]

(Large photo warning!) - Kubby
(Horrible photo warning - Killrob, enter at your own risk!) - Kubby

I've just started my driver's ed courses (as early as possible, I'll have my driver exams somewhere around the time of my 18th birthday). My parents are about to buy themselves a relatively new car after I obtain my licence, and I'll get the Felicia they bought in 2006. As their point of view is that it is not worth spending money to make the car look good and it just has to work, it does not look as perfect as some of the cars shown here. But, I'll get it totally for free, and it's in very good technical condition (if you don't count some cheap-ass repairs)

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Here it is, the car in the awesome shade of green.

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Rear view , with estate boot lid as prone to rusting as hatchback one. Well, they are shared, IIRC, so it's not very surprising.

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The engine bay, dürty as hell. This Felicia is powered by Skoda's 1.3 MPi engine, with an aftermarket LPG system, and with an aftermarket oil cap (taken straight from nutella jar - it fits somehow). It's got whooping 50 kW of full alüminium, püshrod power and Siemens Simos 2P multipoint fuel injection. As Roland (Pyrlix) described, "it's not the VAGda (Felicia was introduced after VAG bought out Skoda, but it's still got Skoda's chassis, and 1.3 engine is Czech design as well - Kubby), and it's got german stuff - it must be good". A lot of space in the bay, btw. Also, surprisingly, it has got forged internals.

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The interior is dürty as well (and as hell too). I could at least bother to put the universal seat cover on the driver seat neatly, but I noticed that after transferred the photos to computer. The speedometer is generously scaled to 200 km/h (top speed is 162 km/h). Also, see that white thing, near the passengers door?

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It's the manual fan switch. Once, the coolant temp fan switch has broken, and my parents did not want to spend money unnecessarily, so they made this, not even bothering to put the switch into one of the blank dashboard button. On the other hand, this switch makes the warning stating that "Radiator fan can start at any time" or that "Kühlerwentilator kann jederzeit anschalten" funny in context.

Oh, this is so going to be the beginning of a great adventure...

[Coolghost]

That's a damn good car

[Juno8]

sorry about this caps coming up

CAR PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!

[pyrlix]

Holy crap - this looks staggering! This is the new Lambörghini Kombi :O

[conan]

Nöw, drive the hell öut öf it. Rear tyre nö need tö be ön the röad!

Conan Edit: I just notice, it's a very rare limited edition Šköda Felicia Abarth!

[Kubboz]

More photos for ya.

[conan]

That's very bandwidth friendly.

[Kubboz]

Of course it is. As is the warning in the OP.

[Kubboz]

I got my driver's licence finally, parents bought a new (well, newer at least) car for themselves.

Now I'm about to do some thingies on front suspension. The thing is, that with basic 1.3 engine, and with basic trim level, Skoda did not include a front anti roll bar in standard equipment. So I'll have to put one on my own. Also, my dad decided to replace the shocks that were kinda worn. And the mechanics botched up the wheel alignment in progress of replacing them.