MY £500 FABIA VRS IS NOW A DIESEL SLEEPER!

[@AutoalexCars]

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[@flippingcarsrepairs]

I didn't think that was alot of power for all that work, 🤔🤔🤔10 years ago I had a golf mk4 pd130 and I had it mapped to 182 bhp and 328lbs of torque on standard clutch and bog standard engine no uprated injectors or turbo nor intercooler let alone a induction kit ragged it for years up santa pod and everywere and clutch never slip and engine pulled strong💪👍👍👍

[@cristydan11]

I am watching you both and love your content! Thank you @AutoalexCars & @DarksideDevelopments for your work and entertaining videos you post here!

[@axgtsimi]

@@flippingcarsrepairs could of put a q7 turbo on it and fmi pd 150 head bolts and got 250 hp

[@davemitch729]

It looks like your close to the 500k subs Alex. The fabia looks like it’s transformed after the work Darkside did

[@robwaters8848]

I'm so glad Alex went off on his own. The content is soooo good.

[@GoodJobLittleBuddy]

To be fair, car throttle is still doing great content. So the winners out of this separation are us, we get two great channels!

[@skinheads]

@@GoodJobLittleBuddy I think car throttle really struggle without Alex. Not as exciting content anymore and it isn't upload as often as AutoAlex

[@GoodJobLittleBuddy]

@@skinheads You're right with the uploads, but Jack is holding his own and the channel is still putting out good content imo.

[@Matt09pearce]

@@skinheads carthrottle has changed alot through the years, remember how popular the website used to be? I like the current presenters on Carthrottle, though! I feel the company is the one holding them back

[@theslavicimmigrant4795]

car throttle limited alex, though i think he and jack were very good together. Ethan was very dry but still likeable. The company holds them all back.

[@MrSausageT]

Been following Darkside for a while now. Their passion for diesels are second to none

[@Offensivebeast]

They do some crazy stuff, they recently posted a render to their IG of a V12 TDI swapped vw Amarok which from what I can see they plan on building 😮‍💨

[@jason21jburg]

@@Offensivebeast that will be insane

[@kevekevevari]

@@Offensivebeast And it's going to be manual swapped too

[@flippingcarsrepairs]

didn't think that was alot of power for all that work, 🤔🤔🤔10 years ago I had a golf mk4 pd130 and I had it mapped to 182 bhp and 328lbs of torque on standard clutch and bog standard engine no uprated injectors or turbo nor intercooler let alone a induction kit ragged it for years up santa pod and everywere and clutch never slip and engine pulled strong💪

[@kazoronix4242]

They suck 😂

[@florin.lisman]

i love this kind of realistic build, great work Alex and the team!

[@ashleyhazell662]

Literally my favourite channel ... When I see an upload it makes me smile. Affordable cars, real-world content, cracking presenter and great editing. It's a yes from me

[@ficnearis]

I had one of these for my second car, remapped with only a pd160 intake and uprated air filter, ran 200 bhp, shook its self to pieces and snapped 4 engine mounts. I had to put an uprated clutch in it after 16k miles. Smoked like crazy, I absolutely loved this car. Drove it like I stole it. Probably a cube now.

[@saycero]

i had a std pd130 ibiza and snapped an engine mount also. Maybe they were underspec for the car... wish Id never sold it and put a map on the thing.

[@mancsblue]

Love this little mini series . It just goes to show that you can buy a cheap little turd and gradually turn it into a fast turd Excellent result Alex

[@richardcrossley5581]

Like "sh*t of a shovel" ?

[@mancsblue]

@@richardcrossley5581 🤣🤣

[@krisg.4257]

Once a turd, always a turd? P.S.: simply can't get what people love about these Fabias...

[@thunderbug8640]

@@krisg.4257 Always be slow too. My slowest car is a 150hp Primera GT and i very easily beat one of these Fabias with 210hp. As a bonus my car sounded a lot better and didnt belch out black smoke.

[@tysonelder646]

Props to Darkside for recording everything.

[@NigeUK007]

Those VRS Fabia diesel engines are one of the best 1.9 TDIs I have ever sat in. Even a factory remap they pull like a train. I genuinely wish they came back to production.

[@b4tm4nrubin33]

Great video, great content Alex. Also good to see Darkside in the mix, i have had a few parts from them in the past for my MK4 Golf GT TDi, they even gifted me a free intercooler hose for my EGR delete kit and they were extremely helpful on the phone at 12pm on a saturday morning giving me advise when i was installing my intercooler. Now that is customer service as it should be.

[@mrt1392]

Great video as usual 👍 and well done with your own Chanel. I know we only see the finished film with smiling faces ect but I hope you really are having a great time with what you have built, a big thanks from all of us 😃

[@RPU_Alex04]

Darkside do some seriously cool stuff, been watching their stuff for a while. It’s also nice to see this car coming along nicely.

[@curbsideconversions]

used darkside loads in the past, also done work for them as well in the past super nice guys always on hand to help still waiting to win the fabia i need a little diesel car

[@Moody26]

Love this, the vRS is my guilty pleasure car, regret selling mine more than any other car I've owned. I've also followed the guys at Darkside for a long time and my A3 has a turbo from them in it after the original became a screamer.. Great value and service delivery wise too, def recommend them!

[@Dan23_7]

Don’t feel guilty, they’re brilliant cars. I had a 56 plate. Like you, I regret selling it 😢

[@Moody26]

@@Dan23_7 absolutely, whoever wins this one will love it!

[@JohnClark-ew8dh]

Yeah snap I sold mine and regretted it ever since!

[@Dan23_7]

@@JohnClark-ew8dh Mine was silver like this one I was following a blue 07 the other day, the limited ones. It was ruined !! Lowered too much and covered in black soot

[@ChatMotorsport]

I met Ryan last year at the Yorkshire Motorsport Festival, he's a nice guy.. My passat will find it's way to Darkside this year for a tune hopefully.. great job Alex :)

[@JoelBDUK]

Glad to see you in Barnsley with the Darkside crew. Good set of lads them

[@Viroth100]

Love this channel, Messing around with cheap cars that are in everyone's reach instead of expensive cars that only a small % will own. Top notch channel and content Alex!

[@Kedut]

i would love to see an interior detail! To see if u can get some live back into those "white" seats!

[@MultiBruce3]

love this build, great place Darkside and loads of bits on the shelf , next door is SRS too for salvaged spares its the place to go for VAG parts. Alex, I recently bought a fabia vrs and within two weeks it absolutley shat its pants. I had to replace the engine, turbo and flywheel and clutch .All back together now and running beutifully and I have a great little fun commuter car . next few months and it will be getting a similar spec build and I will be getting sut of the pop and shart map that it has on it.

[@neilgent1595]

A veritable smorgasbord of car jeopordy, coolant leak, wheelspin and torque steer, rolling coal (welcome back you have been missed), clutch slip (you haven't been missed sorry - you're too familiar a friend tbh), knackered injectors and lets not forget a cameo role for the Police. Bravo to all who made that happen.

[@rg6982]

When you genuinely love your job, you have a smile like Alex's! Love to see it, long may it continue. Im here along the way for the support 😎

[@kellypaws]

Ryan is a natural in front of the camera. Absolute natural.

[@liquidTEC]

Amazing content Alex, you’re absolutely killing it. Loved my Fabia vRS, even had black leather seats for that added luxury touch!

[@markpanter4308]

Love the Fabia VRS. Good work Alex.

[@CalHopo]

Darkside lads always do a good job. Best diesel performance garage in Yorkshire 🤙

[@boralaser]

Had two Fabia vrs . That engine is incredible. Mpg and power! Brilliant little car

[@brewingfarts]

not just yorkshire, the world mate

[@matthewyoung3942]

Darkside are the absolute boys. Known of them for a while being local but started watching more after seeing a few vlogs from Danny DC2 👌🏻

[@DeanVRS20VT]

Ryan smashes it again. Great series Alex!

[@ollysimpson1490]

This is becoming my favourite channel on KZbin. Cheers Alex.

[@smellyfish36]

This was my first ever car in that same colour too lol, bought it off my grandparents and it was such a good car. Could clutch down uphill and never stall.

[@chrishart8548]

Your grandparents had a Vrs ?

[@crawforddetailing9221]

Great video Alex, amazing your giving away that vrs fingers crossed

[@Rmx2011]

Didn't think this card had it in it. Surprising results for sure!

[@lowkeytechnology8095]

Love these fabias. Boras and golfs with the same engines are great, fabias are just extra

[@lloydb-p1544]

PD POWEEERRRRR!!!

[@chrisbarnes2823]

I was raised in the UK but now live in Canada. My MilSpec 109 LandRover has a 2.25 litre oil burner with 60hp and 104 ft lbs maybe! More like a tractor really. My GMC 2500HD pickup has a 6.6 litre Durmax with a six speed Allison transmission 4 wheel drive, slightly warmed over it produces about 490 hp and 900 ft lbs. I use it for towing my fifth wheel trailer when travelling.

[@Dunkelzeitgeist]

Your content is amazing, love Darkside too, reason I bought an A5, I even wear their merch daily, infact today I'm wearing a Darkside top with "reyyt then" on it and a car throttle hoodie, go figure 😂 PS, where do I buy your Volvo hoodie?

[@Gochsener]

I've got the Golf 2.0 PD and always thought newer is better. You can get 240hp just with a bigger turbo as well. but I just love this car

[@connor2155]

These cars are great fun, had 4 of them so far. Need to make it to 5 soon 😂

[@maniyaa_]

knew from the dyno room in the thumbnail it was darkside developments!! great content.

[@oliverwebster4685]

Spent many hours flying up and down the bypass near Darkside 😅 I remember test driving a fabia pd130 with my best mate a week after I passed my driving test.. dealership didn’t take any ID or come on the test drive either! 😂

[@reecedrury4145]

Great to see Ryan on here. Worth a subscribe to darkside

[@texr2000]

Nice spec. I had. Cupra R pd160 with egr delete and offshelf map to 195bhp so basically the same spec as yours. Pulled so well!

[@javierremolar8696]

Mine the same, 201hp

[@Gman-nb9ge]

What mpg do you get?

[@texr2000]

@@Gman-nb9ge was always 50+mpg often 60

[@xXBeefyDjXx]

Awesome, I remember building up my MK4 Golf with Darkside gear, I managed to get around 170hp out of it on a full 130 setup before I let it go. I missed the PD Life so much I went back to it!

[@Ben-qz4gh]

2 of my favourite channels combined 😁

[@adammarshall2401]

Always fancied one of these! Terrific little car. Also, Dark Side are great guys - they sorted a clutch on a Audi S3 for me about ten years ago - were the cheapest and nicest people around - they have moved on a lot since then!

[@Gazshadows]

Nice modifications 👍 I can't bring myself to do anything to mine. Completely standard on original clutch and original turbo 🫣

[@philjones3558]

I’m in the same boat. 170k full Skoda history totally standard. But debating😅

[@Gazshadows]

@@philjones3558 nice full Skoda history 👍 I'm only part history but quite low miles (116k) but still can't bring myself to modify it 🤣 good luck to you if you do 👍

[@stevetadman6272]

I love my Fabia post Darkside visit. On track though, say goodbye to 40+ mpg. But its not all bad, the lowest that I have seen is 19 mpg. Not bad when a lot of the petrol cars around me are struggling to get much over 10 mpg.... Brands Indy circuit sees 20-24 mpg. Even just going for a (law abiding) drive on the road it always makes me grin. I always feel like its a car doing things that realistically, it shouldn't really do.

[@upsidedown4155]

Darkside are the best side to be, its fabious

[@dantownsend4933]

Best thing I like about this is, the fact you have done the everything you said in the intro and not made us wait for another episode by waffling like ALOT of car content creators, 🎉very well done!!!!!!!!

[@danielshephard5332]

Love the PD130's. Proper fan used to have an ibiza FrTDi 130. Mapped really nicely by p-torque who got 317ftlb torque, it used to suprise everyone off the light's. Pocket soot rockets

[@whitesonar]

nice colour on the edit, the garage aound 6 mins looked noice. well done editor chan

[@SaulWillsTV]

I’ve got a polo pd100. I’d die to have to this Fabia. Double the power = double the fun ❤️

[@neilr8557]

My 2 favourite car channels in one video. Love it

[@SatchDoesThings]

Oof, this would go well with my 300bhp V70 T5, I can feel torque without the fuel needle dropping faster than a ton of bricks

[@robsrcjourney970]

I had a Skoda Fabia 1.2htp Combi/Estate which I had plans bigger than my wallet. I so wanted too put the PD130 Engine in it lower it etc but keep it as a sleeper. Sadly due too family circumstances and life in general I had too let the old Combi go. I'd still love to do my dream in a few years.

[@wipex8868]

You should let Matt from Carwow review your cars. Like proper Carwow/Matt style and see how each rank up!

[@sheldonjones3921]

This was my all time favourite car I’ve owned. Let me paint the picture… It was 2009, I was 19. All my friends had either Saxo VTR’s, 106 GTI’s and fiesta zetec S’. I went for the PD130 and absolutely rinsed them 😂 until my other mate who was earning a lot of money bought a civic Type R, he beat me 😂. Great times….

[@The_Real_Pope]

Reyt then 🙂

[@ProMilkshake]

Reyt then, been waiting for this one for a while!!!!

[@tmTech89]

Been waiting for this video for aaages, love Darkside an Alex, excellent combo!

[@itzonlylee4300]

I remember a lad I knew called Patty he used to have a black Fabia and he had a massive darkside developments sticker in the back window. I used to live 20 minutes away from here. Everybody uses this place. Love Alex being in places I know it gets me excited 😂. Surprised he managed a day up North haha

[@sbarneaionut]

Heh, nice to see you have been around mine. Wish would've seen ya and shook your hand :D All the best :)

[@rjnation5042]

Absolutely love Ryan & the Darkside team, been following these guys for a few years, Rj in Oz

[@AdamDuda9133]

love companies like darkside wish we had someone like that here

[@mikelightowlers6594]

I love that this is a sleeper car. The reg is awesome YWN which is what you do when your tired and a SLEEPER!!!!

[@gordonhutchinson2211]

Alex, my Skoda 1.9 was written off by a uninsured driver three years ago, still hasn't been settled. Great to see what you've done to the Vrs. Would love it!

[@DirtyI30N]

Brilliant video again! It's nice to see some of your Fleet getting some love. Can I ask what the song was at 10:50 though? 😂

[@Volfmech]

Love a Fabia VRS, cracking cars. Massive shout to Darkside, always helpful when I've spoken to them. My Skoda Octi started life with 140hp, now it's close enough to 300 with just under 460lbft

[@jordanrayment7647]

I’m so thankful Alex went on his own. His channel is brilliant 💙.

[@danderton2002]

Great video, I would not usually be interested in watching a Skoda but you guys make any car interesting and entertaining. Keep up the good work!

[@moe_1886]

Nice little pocket rockets the Fabia VRS's! I have the VRS 132 TSI and she gets going alright! So much fun on windy roads!

[@tommybronze3451]

Alex, all the best on your solo venture (well you dragged few folk with you). I hope channel will grow and it will pay off !

[@huxlee562]

Really enjoy new content, it's great. Well done Alex for going independent and being successful.👌

[@liamoreilly2008]

Been watching you for years Alex. Like many others, I’ve got to say that this channel is sooo good. Keep the awesome content coming dude 💪🏻

[@jaysmartin]

Good to see Darkside and a 1.9 tdi - that and the vr6 are my favourite engines

[@BunkerMan-95]

can i just say the camera quality is fantastic! Great video(s)!!

[@JerGol]

What a nice bit of work. Good publicity for the boys at Darkside, too. 👍🏼

[@dragosdragos6058]

Brilliant Fabia , love the 1.9 PD and Darkside kit is really great

[@tractortrook]

Brilliant episode! Glad you went to dark side for the work !

[@BeasT-gw6fb]

This content is so good man i really appreciate the hard work 💯

[@reecejones3187]

I bloomin love those fabia’s! I had the mark 2 vrs but just not the same as having that dirty diesel

[@TheWorldListens]

Wheel bearing may not be a wheel bearing. More likely the bushes in the rear beam. Feathering on the inner edge of the rear tyres is the give away. Sounds like a bearing to most people. Hope that's of use to someone.

[@raybell7696]

Fabia is my daughter's favourite, fingers crossed for her..

[@carstenhaegeman7536]

I had a 2005 1.9 nonturbo fabia combi, loved it so much. And got it totaled. Still miss it everyday

[@RossMacFarlane]

Keep up the good work Alex! Looking forward to see a subscriber win this beast

[@curlybrownliz]

20 years on and these PD engines have still got it. My high mileage ASZ still outperforms newer cars in terms of power and economy even if it is a bit clattery on cold start

[@MatNewtonTrio]

Very nearly bought a little Fabia. Great car and pretty decent performance with the upgrades.

[@TheIceholeCanadian]

Man do I miss my TDI Jetta now. Ordered my parts and couldn't have cared about the shipping and duties. Completely worth it.

[@daver9823]

Bloody love Darkside. Done me right on a couple of cars now. Miss my diesels. May grab a cheapie soon to keep the miles off my EP3. If I do, first port of call is here so I know it’ll be “reet then”

[@daviddominiak7790]

Great video and wow what a difference it has made

[@jamiepudney]

Best car content out there at the moment and brilliant to watch !

[@rolfe4712]

I am so obsessed with the mk1 fabia so glad to finally see some quality videos with one, hopefully I’ll win it won day

[@adrianstacey5484]

Skoda Fabia Vrs, tuned at Darkside, sensible power and able to put it down…. I need this in my life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@johnbinnie8834]

Great videos Alex. Love your enthusiasm, keep it up.

[@Buck3366]

Great presenter, great tuner. Happy subscriber. Job done !

[@BugStar8]

Looks a great all round car. Power and MPG. Plus you don’t see many of them on the road.

[@ConorRhysB]

Always liked those motors! Loving the channel Alex!

[@JakeyWils]

I love watching the guys from dark side developments - fantastic collaboration

[@No.Handle31]

I know of these guys at Darkside. If I ever need my Skoda tuned, I'll take it up there.

[@thomaswestgarth1046]

Hi, I'm a 13 year old boy and my dad is pretty good at mechanics. We have been looking for a car for me online but we have such a small budget and lots of cars online are not what we want, but this perfect for the job.

[@JoeDay-me3gr]

Watching while buying parts for my mk2 fabia vrs. Love it