Fabia / Ibiza with 1.4 16v 100 engine / PD130 engine

[Horse Pop]

Hello.

I'm just looking at what cars are cheap near me and the Fabia/Ibizas look like a fair buy in terms of kit.

I'm wondering how reliable the 100 hp 1.4 16v engines are though.

Googling they appear to have a number of problems, but I don't know if that's just because it's a common engine.

There's people talking about pinking and stalling issues among others.

I'm also wondering how reliable the PD130 engines are in 2015. I know they had a good reputation, but if I'm looking at 2006, 2007 cars, is that still the case?

[Drive Blind]

the only Fabia you get with the PD130 is the vRS and they aint cheap.
Most sellers are still asking over £5K for a 2006 example.

Then again you might be a millionaire and £5K is just pocket money

[Horse Pop]

Yeah I spotted that. Ibizas with the PD130 come in much cheaper from what I can see.

[Mighty Flex]

Had the arosa with 1.4 100bhp, nice engine and suited the light car. Took it over from my mum who only did short journeys only and did a 25 mile commute for a year in it (42-45mpg). oil consumption can be bad on them - its possibly they will have been run low on oil. Mine went from a litre every 500 miles to a litre every 2000 miles over that year, with an Italian tune up and proper long runs. Ran beautifully otherwise, though this was from 47-67k, so hardly a high mileage car. If you find one that's been looked after they should be fine. She replaced it with a Fabia vRS 130 and that been reliable too. Completely different character between the engines though one is reasonably free revving and the other is a crude wall of tractor like torque.

Edited by Mighty Flex on Friday 2nd October 12:07