Skoda Favorit Odometer fix (and other things)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2018
- Further improvements for the Favorit, as I try to fix the non-working Odometer or mileometer. I also get my local garage to try and find the source of a front end knock, and use lasers to ascertain whether the engine is overheating.
Contains a cameo from TWC the Invacar as she helps me get horribly ripped off by Halfords for some dashboard bulbs.
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Oh what a load of nostalgia. See that printed circuit board in back of odometer dials in 12:30? It says VDI Nitra in top left corner. It is acronym for former Výrobné Družstvo Invalidov Nitra. VDI was something like: Manufacture cooperative for invalids and Nitra is nice town in middle of Slovakia. Part of former Czechoslovakia where these cars were engineered and manufactured. It was special factory (not only one in country) where disabled people can find job with enviroments according to their disabilities. If someone was deaf or missing one or both legs, he/she could work with their head or hands. In this case probably assembly electronics of all sorts. Škoda itself is assembled in Mladá Boleslav in Czech republic till these days.
BTW there is a brand new huge factory Jaguar-Land Rover in Nitra, or rather in outskirts of the city opened recently this year.
I really love these longer Hubnut repair videos. It's one thing to buy an inexpensive car yet another to make the commitment to fix all the little things it needs to be perfect. I'm in the latter camp of thought so I really appreciate Hubnut's progress on this awesome little car. I think I would have put the odometer around 60,000 versus the 100 he chose since it would be a more educated accurate reflection of the miles on this car. Quality job replacing all the bulbs while he already had the cluster removed. No need to go back in there a second or third time. Lol. Great video.
Step by step making everything work, and even an anti-rust treatment, Ian is in love with the Skoda Favorit.
To check that the temp gauge is working, remove the wire and earth it out to the housing, if the gauge rises to the top then the gauge is fine, proving that the fault lies in the sender or thermostat. Hope this helps.
Watching you adjust the numbers on the milometer reminds me of a car sold at the MG/Rover dealership I worked at back in the day. We had a preregistered Rover 200 that never sold and had sat unused in the compound for 2 or 3 years. Nobody was going to buy a 3 year old brand new car, so the sales manager hatched a somewhat iffy plan. The mileage was clocked by adding (I think) about 12k miles to the delivery mileage the car already had, and then he used it as a runabout for about a month or so. The car was then cleaned up and put on the pitch for sale as a 'low mileage' second hand car. It sold like the proverbial hot cake. The dealership had pulled off a similar trick with a batch of Montegos that had just sat in a compound for a long period of time the year before. I was quite shocked to learn at the time that though it's certainly illegal to roll back a vehicle's mileage, it is not illegal to add miles to a car's reading. I soon learned that this sort of thing was just another day at the office.
It's not illegal to 'clock' a car, it's only illegal to knowingly misrepresent a car for sale, so even if you increased the mileage it would still be illegal. HubNut just clocked his car, but he hasn't broken the law, unless he sold it and tried to convince someone his 24yr old Favorit was showroom fresh, which, as nice as it is, is gonna need more than a mop to get it like that. The difference between increasing and decreasing the mileage is that if you increase it, it would be difficult for people to accuse you of trying to profit, as well as the obvious fact it would be much harder to spot, as ownership under certain people does make the mileage shoot up, like those with long commutes.
Braver man than me taking the speedo/odometer down to its constituent parts 😱,
Well done getting them back together and working properly. 😅
Looking forward to seeing the Favorit all spruced up, and doing justice to what it is... a good, sound, well sorted bangernomic buy.
Go the Favorit! I have replaced the thermostats on several cars that I have owned and they always fail slightly open. You don't notice it until winter when you find that the engine won't warm up. I once had a Nissan Pulsar where the temp gauge showed normal but the thermostat was stuck open and the engine ran so cold the heater didn't work. It took ages to figure out what was going on and by that time I had got rid of it and gone back to a Corolla, which also had a stuck thermostat! But at least it was simple to fix, unlike the Nissan. It was heart in mouth stuff watching you take the odometer apart. What a satisfying achievement.
Pauline Hunter better to fail open than closed and cook the engine
Good to see TWC out and about, and picking up parts for other members of the fleet! 👍
HUBNUT ,I'M SO GLAD YOU KEEP THESE OLD RARE GIRLS ON THE ROAD , RESPECT TO YOU MATE ,LOVE YOUR VIDS ,KEEP IT UP BUDDY , TOO MANY OLD CARS ARE GONE NOW , LOVE YOUR WORK TAKE CARE!!!!!!
Good work there Ian. It’s interesting how few screws need to be removed to dismantle the dash, yet the car is still rattle free. The build quality really has to be admired.
I'm enjoying getting to know the Skoda she looks to be in brilliant condition. Isn't it great when you have success when effecting a repair. We even got a bonus ride in little TWC . Love it👍
A tip for testing/repairing rear hatch seals (possibly any door seal) I was given was to remove it and feed a length of the plastic-coated type washing line through it and cut to fit. It expands it enough to cure the flattening out and usually re-seals it nicely. It worked a treat on a Renault 14 I had the same issue with. Was meant to be a test and then replace the seal but it just stayed in there forever as it was doing the job. One of those permanent temporary fixes...
Fixing the speedo before the leaking chimney 😂😂
Loving the priorities mate 😂😂
To be fair, there's no way I'm getting on the sodding roof!
Your travels in the invacar always reminds me of the 170 mile drives I'd make from Aberdeen to my grandparents in the north Highlands in my 1978 Vauxhall chevette GLS. You'd be planning every overtake and hill ascend about a mile ahead. Bloody eyes were out on stalks by the time I'd get there. Happy memories!!!
Well done Ian and Mrs Hub Nut! With the needles in red the whole set up is spot on! and its working as it was designed to do!
It’s so pleasing to mend something like lights and, in your case, speedo. Simple things that make a huge difference to the whole driving experience! Great result! I’m loving this car!!👍👍
Since watching my first video of yours a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been inspired to do all the jobs needed to bring my Astra (2004) back to its former glory (new wing mirror, rear quarter light, various bulbs, wheel trims and service etc, it now looks like it just stepped out of the factory).. so thank you Mr H for the kick up the backside I needed! 😊👍
Well done Ian for getting the odometer working and we even got a bonus ride in TWC as well.
A good fix i love how easy that Skoda is to work on
Is it just me or does anyone else binge watch Hub Nut.... Really addictive viewing
Cheap fixes that make all the difference are the best ones.
Well done with the odometer fix Ian, and very brave too! I tried to repair a stuck ignition switch on my Granada a few years ago, two hours before the car was need to get me to work.
Removed a circlip and 'TWANG' springs and switch bits all over the car! Wonderful.....Oh dear!
Turning the clocks back for winter, Hubnut style! Excellent Skoda update.
I bought a brand new Skoda S110R back in 1976. Nice car inside all black and soft padded but the exterior rotted badly. One day I had a puncture and as the wheel nuts cracked undone, it turned out that it was the studs that had snapped off like carrots. Such was the quality of the steel. The steering box (which was worm and peg ... think pedal car) needed oiling regularly but the nipple was hard up against the boot floor so most never got done. Making a hole in the boot floor and making a removable panel was the cure for that. King pins also had grease nipples and play could be adjusted as they wore. Replacement kingpins revealed that the wearing surface was a yellow coloured nylon. I'm sure that Skoda's improved as the years progressed, even before they came under VW's wing. I think the Favorit is a transition period car ... pre VW but continued into the VW era.
I'm glad my monthly contribution made it to buy 1 and 1/3 of halfords dash bulb :) Thanks for yet another great video, Ian
Definitely liking the Skoda and it certainly fits the ethos of this channel. Like the idea o every journey in an Invacar being an adventure - reminds me of my 1960 Ford Popular 100E!
I really enjoy all of your videos, as a Škoda enthusiast I particularly look forward to updates following your sympathetic restoration of this gorgeous Favorit, you’re doing a great job, keeping a classic Škoda on the road!, maybe we could welcome you to the Škoda Owners Club UK, you, Mrs Hubnut and your Favorit would be well received at any of our meetings !! x.
That could happen. I'm good friends with the club magazine editor. ;-)
HubNut yes I know Rob well, he lives in Wales also doesn’t he lol ! x
A felt tip pen dial restoration, love it.
Look forward to seeing how effective the mopping will be.
Excellent stuff as always. I've been very much enjoying the Favorit story so far. On your (was) live new car reveal, my loud exclamation of joy at your choice of vehicle piqued my wife's interest very briefly, until she realised it was 'just that Nutty Hub bloke again'...
Never thought I’d be sat here watching hubnut take a favorit speedometer apart 🤣 pretty fascinating if I’m honest
The mug boxes are very impressive, very sturdy 👍
Thoroughly enjoy these detailed vlogs mate.
Great job 👍
About ten years ago a friend would occasionally borrow his dad's Citroen, might have been an XM. The speedo (and odometer) would only work intermittently, like register a few thousand km, then stop altogether and kick in again. I think he said it'd been working about half the time for years. Driving that thing was... interesting. I think it's also the only car I've ever co-piloted (changed gears from the passenger seat so the driver could drink from his water bottle without letting go of the wheel). Fun times!
The inter-action is good on a growing channel such as Hubnuts & he always acknowledges comments. On bigger channels I don't bother, whats the point ........
Well impressed, full on dive into the dash.Seek and seal the windows in the back first then underseal, That's a good chap! Felt Mrs Hubnut, could go for rouge nail varnish, Bling always fore-fills greater achievement. Cheers all.
Excellent display of skills there, congrats on the progress.
It has a beautiful shape, the rear window heater! Fantastic!
Just stumbled across the channel. I am from the United States but I am fascinated with this car!
I have never seen such an enjoyable video about dashboard dismantlement and reassembly. I also agree totally with your remarks about us having reached 'peak car' by about 2000. This is a fine and humble example of a quality vehicle that is user-friendly. Look after something like this and it could last a lifetime. Modern cars are hideously over-burdened with unnecessary extras and engineering complexity that only leads to more ways to fail and prevents owners from understanding and being able to maintain their vehicle efficiently.
That Favorit is is in better nick underneath, inside and out than my 14 plate fiesta. That's truly amazing. I think you really have struck gold with this one Ian.
@@TomAlter1000 If I were to tell you what's wrong with it I would need this whole comment section. Moral of the story is don't by ex lease cars.
Great fix...Well done Hubnut!
Congratulations on the successful (so far) fix of the odometer and trip meter. I hope it works for a decent period for you. And congratulations of straightening out the inflicted wobbles to the temperature gauge face. I probably wouldn't have noticed that until I'd put everything back together when it would have instantly annoyed the hell out of me...
Smashing video Ian, love the tinkering about with stuff. Looking forward to seeing the Kitten rebuild.
Good work and good to see helpful and positive comments. Thanks for sharing.
gosh moved from Pembs to Perth Watern Australia Last year, video brought back memories of teh welsh weather! Glad top see Twc running
Good job! Keep those repair videos coming.
Again, great video. Enjoyed watching it.
Nice work Ian , the start of full restoration on the Skoda, and change your thermostat and give it a good flush out , I really do like this little car , I’ve always been like it when I know I have bought something good
i just love how simple everything is makes me quite happy. i can imagine working in a middle/lower class brand garage really wasnt difficult in the day as things seem verry similar to the way things on the bx work. though skoda and citroen are verry different brands
Awesome video. Looking forward to you sorting the pink paint.
Really enjoyed this vid. Nice speedo job (no pun please) and a real good mix of cheap diy fix, combined with a sense travel .
Changed the thermostat on me Mum's 1.4 Fabia & it made a massive difference. Not the same car I know, but it's still a Skoda engine. She bought it in 2009 with 36000 miles on it. It's only reading about 50000 now. Shops & back but the shops are 4 miles away & it gets chance to warm up!
My old van used to run cool in the winter,I used to block half the rad of with cardboard,did the trick
I hope you get paid by the Welsh tourist board, it will be a new year resolution of mine to spend a few days there, to drive those wonderful roads and enjoy the spectacular scenery. Favorit looks to be in Superb condition, no obvious rust, all red paint turns flat pink just needs cutting back, have to say its a damn good looking car. I mean that. I would keep it de-badged, keeps a bit of mystery! Never ceases to amaze what the great unwashed still say about Skodas.
Great video and you have the patience of a saint sir !!
Hi Ian< love all your videos , please keep them coming, as an ex longbridge Apprentice I still have lost of affection for the "Austin cars" working with sir Alex in the south experimental workshop. Great days. it may help, the Skoda has had a number of MOT "Advisory notice" in the area of the steering rack: March 2016 Nearside Front Steering rack gaiter deteriorated: and FAIL March 2011 Offside Steering rack gaiter split. with these failing sail. grit etc will of got in there and over time you now have the play!
And that Ladies and Gentlemen is how HubNut does that. Excellent !
Very satisfying to repair things on the cheap. The price of those bulbs was a tad expensive , but in Wales on a Sunday , you was lucky to get any.👍
Nice piece of light work this video.... And I like the way you use the 'W' in TWC as a Welsh vowel. Da iawn.
Good fix! Love the non concentric steering wheel. Reminds me of an early mk3 cortina wheel 😊
Not the most elegant solution to the boot leak, but a quick & reliable fix that has worked wonders for me & leaky old cars: Blu-Tack. Put a bit around the rusty areas & see if it helps.
Fantastic. The underside is remarkable and would suggest the mileage is low. You never know the abuse of all those speed bumps in London may of caused premature issues with the steering rack. Or it could be just an iffy part. I hope you can cure the moisture issue, as this time of year it doesn't take long to cause damage to that immaculate metal work. I hope you keep enjoying it, and I'm looking forward to more videos and putting up my hubnut calendar!
Rustproofing, does that mean he Favorit is to become a long-term vehicle on the Hubnut fleet?. I had a Favorit back in the mid-'90s, they were an underrated car and it's good to see your Favorit getting some TLC.
Well done pal 👍 the simplest fixes are so satisfying 😂 I loved that felt tip hack! The cluster looked rather fiddly too seperate! Halfrauds prices on a lot of items are outrageous...
I had a Favorit hatchback, bought new in 1994. I ran it for 84000 miles and only had to change windscreen wipers, tyres and brake pads. Nothing ever went wrong. It was my second SKoda after an Estelle 130 withe the 1300 engine and 5 speed box. That also served me for 80.000 miles without any trouble or failure. I had 6 Skodas, ending with an second hand Octavia. Modern Skodas are too expensive, so I have run 2 Diahatu Sirions in recent years and now have a Suzuki Splash, which has been perfectly reliable for 37,000 miles.
Dark side of the dash.
Nice fix there you did.
Once I took my 406 dash apart (sort of) to change a bulb or two, with the right tools (torx is a good bet on French cars) and patience reasonably easy fix can be DIY no worries. You went in deeper, respektos for that!
There is an amount of satisfaction hard to explain when you can mend or fix your own car.
My 1007 doesn't have a temp gauge but the fan works, I have checked that bit out. Strange choice not to have a gauge but hey it is French!
Excellent...!! A new Skoda video. 🙂
12:33 - 'Now it seems you don't go in from the back, you go in from the front.'
Less mess anyway 🤣
Very nice to see another video up 😎
Clever stuff hubnut 👍
Well done Ian productive Sunday id say 😉
This video evokes such nostalgia! My good friend Steve had a red Favorit and removed the dash binnicle (binnacle?) and replaced it with cardboard......you know light weight race spec etc.
Im beginning to warm to to it, and nice to see TWC out for a run
Loving the Favourite videos Ian. One thing you can try is see if the rear lights are allowing water in to the boot because of a failed / misplaced seal. I have encountered this before.
@@TomAlter1000 cellphone typo and sausage fingers........
On my leaky Land Rover, (Freelander rear door, what a design!) I removed the seal and cleaned it in soapy water, then used rubber restorer in copious amounts. Didn't leak any more. Nice cheap fix.
Tuk! It’s nice when you can get a few things fixed in one go.
The best bit was the Took drive, nice to see it coped with with what nature threw at it.
I miss my old ‘92 Favorit. It was great and crap at the same time. Absolutely bomb proof, simple, reliable but slow and a tad unrefined yet I would have it back in a heartbeat. Strange?
You have the patience of a saint, I wonder how things would differ should you not be recording! Great vid, made me laugh. The Favorit is certainly growing on me.
You must be the most patient man I've never met.
Great video. My Felicia had a knocking sound up front only when I went over big bumps. After replacing many things all it was , the right hand top mount bearing had collapsed.
Hoping is isn't that. Certainly some play in the rack.
Always love these videos, get much more from these than most of the shite on telly tbh
It’s a change to see someone doing videos on ordinary everyday cars instead of the kind of cars most people can’t afford
Nice fresh video 13min new. Fascinating these east European cars.
Luckily I avoided a yugo, $3,999 cheap though. Good job on the repair Ian.
Rich & kit kats LA California.
Great , glad you fixed it 😀
Always a fun job, had to do this on our MK2 Golf, next one to fix us the Series 2 a Land Rover amongst other things
Great repair.
The spare tire is original -- Tigar is a brand of tires from Serbia. And as you might expect from that, they were also originally equipped on Yugo cars.
I am just dying to see what the paintwork turns out like 😲
The dash comes apart pretty easily with just one tool, no need to use a 'Brummie Screwdriver', I like that.
Steering rack going early reminds me of my dads old KA, needed a new steering rack and even rust repair at the first MOT. It got sold soon after that.
I like getting the little dead bulb units out and pulling the tiny cap bulb out of it - they are usually removed quite easily. You can then put a 12v 3mm LED with an internal resistor in their place in the original moulding and solder them to the contacts.
(12v 3MM LEDs with clear cases are the best for automotive use, they are available irregularly via eBay or electronics distributors - I try to stock up as and when I see them for sale as they last forever... )
On my old Saab I did this so I now have red backlight on the rear fog switch, white on the front fog switch, amber on the heated seats, basically anything to get rid of the sickly greenish backlighting it came with from the factory
I had an Audi A4 Avant 1999 and the windows steamed up really bad in winter.Found out it was a leaky boot seal where it had flattened over the years so got a bottle of RainX Antifog and worked a treat till I sorted out a new seal.
Good to see work in progress Hubnut. The felt pen on the needle trick looks good, though may not last. I like nail polish for such jobs. Fingers crossed too that the superglue holds. Steel shaft and plastic gear? I'd have hammered or ground some flats into the end of the shaft, scored up the hole in the gear and used epoxy resin. But time may prove that we're both right! Cheers.
Ah hah. I've done a bit of pulling apart of speedometers. One problem some cars can develop in Australian heat is curling of plastic speedometer needles which makes them drag along the face and be useless. I've had to remake several from metal, which they should have been made with in the first place.
Should get 1 of them £1 dehumidifiers, put in boot to keep moisture out till you find where water is leaking in.
Damp spots are not abnormal in old cars as seals deteriorate and, is it me, or is the frequency of torrential rain increasing? Myself I just use an old dry folded towel with a weight to keep it in place, and swap it as needed with a dry one in the airing cupboard.
Those cheap dehumidifiers work a treat. I put 5 of them in my P6 (in the garage with the windows up and the vents shut) and they all filled right up. The smell of the leather coming back was amazing
Got to love a bit of 3 wheel fun
Try comparing speedo to a sat nav speed indication, normally sat navs seem to read lower speed than the speedo but I tend to go by the speed on the speedo which although maybe reading 30 and sat nav or actual speed maybe a couple of mph lower but I avoid speeding tickets.
Love the faded needle fix👍
You could try smearing a little silicone lubricant on the tailgate seal, I’ve tubes of seal rejuvenater on the famous auction site we all know and love.
I seem to remember that temperature senders used to be colour coded and matched to the gauge. Old Fords used to have several colours even on identical engines. I guess its to match the resistance between gauge and sender unit, so whatever matched units were available at the time on the assembly line were fitted.
I am so envious of you having one of these, be happy to buy it, if you are selling.
Not yet. Will see what the New Year holds for this car.
Good job Ian on fixing a few of the current issues. It will be interesting to see if you are able to recover the faded red paintwork eventually.
A product called Goo Gone is very good for removing glue residue and also the sticky rubber stuff used on camera grips and portable radios. Unlike white spirit, Goo Gone doesn't seem to remove any lettering on the product. It's available on Amazon UK.
WD 40 is a very good solvent of glue residue.
Working life using pneumatic nail/staple guns etc, used WD40 to clean triggers and safety mechanisms but only airline oil inside.
Twc back in the action also nice sighting of proton gen2