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Fabia weekend countdown

a Saturday morning. Not only is our 2013 Skoda Fabia 1.2 in need of a ser vice but Mrs C requires the car for work first thing on the Monday. Thankfully I ordered all the parts earlier in the week. Any ser vice garage worth their salt wouldn’t raise an eyebrow at my job list and could get this done easily in a morning, but for your DIY correspondent I was a little ner vous. You’d think with a fleet of four cars I’d keep a spare lying around, but unfortunately, I needed the only other roadworthy car myself the same day. If something went wrong, I wouldn’t have much time to get parts or tools brought in so, did

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