Skoda Felicia

1. Check serviceability of functioning of the parking brake. The excessive course of a control lever (it is too much clicks) indicates the need of performance of adjustment of a driving cable.

2. Make sure that at easy percussion on a control lever there is no spontaneous otpuskaniye of the parking brake.

1. Squeeze out a pedal of a foot brake against the stop and make sure that it does not continue to fail slowly to a floor. Otherwise it is necessary to check a condition of GTTs. Release a pedal, wait several seconds and again squeeze out it. If the noticeable resistance to squeezing arises only when the pedal fell almost to a floor, it is necessary to make adjustment or repair of brakes. The soft course of a pedal of a brake speaks about hit of air to the hydraulic highway. In this case the system has to be pumped over (see the Head the Brake system).

2. Check serviceability of a state and reliability of fastening of a brake pedal. Also make sure of lack of smudges of liquid under a pedal on a rug or the panel of a floor. Availability of moisture under a pedal speaks about malfunction of GTTs.

3. Check serviceability of functioning of the vacuum amplifier of brakes (at the corresponding complete set of the car) for what several times press on a brake pedal, then squeeze out it against the stop and start the engine. If the vacuum amplifier as it should be, a pedal after start of the engine considerably fails down, otherwise check a condition of a vacuum hose and actually the block of the vacuum amplifier.

1. Check a condition and durability of fastening of a nave, spokes and a rim of a steering wheel.

2. Pull a steering wheel here and there and up-down. Existence of a noticeable side play speaks about wear of components of a column, or otpuskaniya of a fixing nut. Continue to pull a steering wheel as earlier, at the same time slightly turning it to the right-to the left.

3. Make sure of reliability of fastening of a steering wheel on a shaft of a column and in lack of the excessive side play indicating wear of persistent bearings or couplings of a steering column.

2. Front seats have to be reliably fixed on a sled, and their backs to be fixed in vertical position.

1. Include ignition and check serviceability of functioning of a horn.

2. Check a condition of brushes of screen wipers, replace defective brushes.

3. Check serviceability of operation of windscreen washers.
4. Check serviceability of functioning of stoplights, marker lights and illumination of registration plate. Lenses and reflectors of lamps have to be reliably fixed, and also are free from traces of pollution and damages.
5. Check functioning of head headlights and correctness of adjustment of the direction of their beams. Reflectors should not be grown dull, existence of cracks on lenses is also inadmissible.
6. Include ignition and check serviceability of functioning of indexes of turns (including control lamps for dashboards) and the alarm system. Inclusion of side and back marker lights should not exert impacts on work of indexes of turns, otherwise it is necessary to check serviceability of grounding in the back combined lamp.
7. Check functioning of a back fog light (headlights) and its control lamp for dashboards or in the switch.

3. Turn a steering wheel from an emphasis against the stop and make sure that hoses do not make contact with components of a suspension bracket and the steering drive. Having firmly squeezed out a brake pedal, make sure that under pressure on hoses swellings are not formed and traces of leaks do not appear.

1. Ask the assistant to rotate a steering wheel here and there in the small range - until the beginning of reaction of the operated car wheels. Estimate the size of a free wheeling of a steering wheel, - the excessive side play indicates wear or weakening of hinges of a steering column, the coupling of connection of a column with the steering mechanism or actually rack transfer.
2. Ask the assistant to rotate a steering wheel a little stronger in both directions - so that the operated wheels began to turn. Try to estimate visually a condition of hinges, drafts and support of the steering drive at this time. On the cars equipped with the power steering check reliability of fastening and a condition of the steering pump, his driving belt and connecting hydraulic hoses.
3. Make sure of horizontal position of landing of the car and adequacy of a road gleam.

1. Start the engine. Ask the assistant to press a lump of rags to a cut of an exhaust pipe and check a path of system for existence of signs of leak of gases. Repair or replace defective sections.

2. Check serviceability of a condition of rubber suspensions of support of sections of system.

1. Ask the assistant to turn a steering wheel from an emphasis against the stop. Make sure of smoothness of the course of components of the steering drive. No components, including wheels should adjoin to brake hoses, tubes or body elements at the same time.

2. Check a condition of protective covers of a steering rack. On models with the power steering examine hydraulic lines and their nipple connections on existence of signs of leaks. Make sure of lack of breakthroughs and jammings of components at operation of the steering drive. Check existence and serviceability of forelocks, lock tags and other details of blocking of fixture. Body panels should not be damaged or mentioned by corrosion in a radius of 30 cm around points of fastening of components of the steering drive.

1. Begin with the right forward wheel. Grasp it in points on 3 and for 9 hours and sharply pull. Existence of a side play speaks about wear or weakening of a pretightness of the wheel bearing, wear of spherical support and hinges, arms and rubber-metal plugs of fastening of components of a suspension bracket.

2. Now grasp a wheel in points on 12 and for 6 hours and repeat the previous check. Manually rotate a wheel, checking its bearing for existence of breakthroughs and points of jamming.

3. At identification of signs of wear of basic knots of components of a suspension bracket check them by a podrychazhivaniye the screw-driver or flat mount. Existence of a noticeable side play will indicate wear of the rubber-metal plug, a fixing bolt or actually a support arm (often bolted openings gain ovality).

4. Repeat all listed above checks for the remained car wheels.

1. Examine suspension bracket racks (at the corresponding complete set) on existence of signs of serious leaks, development of corrosion and mechanical damages of casings. Also check reliability of fastening of support of racks.
2. If the car is equipped with screw springs, track that they correctly were placed in the saddles, were not burst, deformed or damaged by corrosion.
3. In case of a suspension bracket on sheet springs (springs) check serviceability of a condition of springs, reliability of fastening to them of the bridge, and also a condition of rubber-metal plugs of anchor support and earrings of springs.
4. The same checks belong also to the cars equipped with other types of a suspension bracket, such as a suspension bracket on the torsion bars, hydraulic displeyser, etc. Check durability of fastening of all support and arms. Make sure of lack of signs of excessive wear, development of corrosion and mechanical damages. On suspension brackets of hydraulic (active) type examine hydraulic tubes on existence of signs of leaks and damages.
5. Check shock-absorbers for leaks. Estimate degree of wear of plugs of support, examine cases of shock-absorbers on existence of signs of mechanical damages.

2. Check a condition of all rigid brake lines and flexible hoses in a back part of the car. Pay attention to corrosion traces, weakening of fastening of nipple connections, attritions, swellings (under pressure), cracks cuts and signs of aging of material.
3. Check supports and boards of brake mechanisms for existence of signs of leaks. Repair or replace defective components.
4. Slowly rotating serially each of wheels, ask the assistant to squeeze out and release a pedal of a foot brake at this time. Make sure of serviceability of operation of brake mechanisms and that the wheel freely rotates at a pedal otpuskaniye.

5. Check the mechanism of the drive of the parking brake for existence of breaks and damages of cables, corrosion, wear and weakening of fastening of drafts, etc. Make sure that the parking brake reliably blocks both back wheels and completely releases them at a lever otpuskaniye.

6. It is not possible to check efficiency of functioning of the brake system without the special equipment, however it is necessary to make small trial runs of the car, checking serviceability of its braking without loss of course stability.

1. Check a condition of a gasoline tank (including a jellied mouth), fuel tubes, hoses and their nipple connections. All components have to be reliably attached and free from damages and signs of leaks.

On all length examine a path of system of release. Check pipes and components of system for existence of traces of leak of the fulfilled gases, mechanical damages and signs of development of corrosion. Also check reliability of fastening of sections among themselves and in suspensions of support.

1. Attentively examine sidewalls and protectors of tires of all wheels of the car, including spare. Check tires for existence of cuts, swellings, exposures of a cord, traces of peeling of a protector and its uneven wear. Make sure of correctness of landing of tires on rims of disks. Check a state and correctness of landing of gates of a rating.
2. Make sure that the wheels installed on the car on the standard size correspond to a class and model of the vehicle. On both wheels of each of axes of the car tires of one standard size have to be installed.

3. Measure the residual depth of a protector. The minimum admissible value makes 1.6 mm at least on three quarters of the area of a protector. Uneven wear of a protector indicates violation of geometry of a forward suspension bracket.

1. Check the bearing elements of a body and a frame of the car (including box-shaped sections of the chassis, thresholds, cross beams, racks, and also reference points of components of a suspension bracket, the steering drive and brake mechanisms) for existence of traces of development of corrosion. Thinning of the bearing elements is fraught with creation of an emergency on the road. In that case performance of repair with involvement of experts is required.
2. Try to remove all sharp zakraina and agnails which developed on body elements as a result of damage by their corrosion.

1. Warm up the engine up to the normal working temperature and make sure of correctness of all its settings (as it should be there have to be also all accompanying knots and systems - system of ignition, the air cleaner, etc.).
2. Before starting performance of measurements, lift the frequency of rotation of the engine to 2 500 rpm and keep it on this value within about 20 seconds. Then again dump turns to single and check a condition of an exhaust. If single turns are obviously overestimated, or the exhaust pipe within more than 5 seconds comes out well noticeable smoke of dense blue color, the car cannot be considered ready to checkup passing. Blue smoke on an exhaust is a sign of burning out of oil owing to internal wear of the engine. Black color of an exhaust testifies to incompleteness of combustion of fuel as a result of pollution of the air filter or other violations in a power supply system.
3. By means of a special gas analyzer the level of content in the fulfilled gases of monoxide of carbon (SO) and hydrocarbonic connections can be determined. If the gas analyzer is not available, it is necessary to hire it.

At the time of drawing up this manual the admissible level of contents WITH at single turns of the engine made 3.5% for the cars which came to operation after August, 1986 and 4.5% for older cars. Since January, 1996 in Europe more strict norms for cars, were accepted by the equipped catalytic converter and which came to operation since August, 1992 (about 0.5%). If it is not possible to achieve hit of level of contents WITH in the framework stipulated by norms (on condition of correctness of settings of the engine, power supply systems, ignition, etc.), then the reason lies in excessive wear of the carburetor, or other refusal in a power supply system. It is not excluded also that the catalytic converter just failed (at the corresponding complete set).

1. At the SO normal level the content of hydrocarbons in the fulfilled gases on single turns of the engine should not exceed concentration of 1 200 particles on one million. At negative result of this check it should be repeated, having lifted engine turns to 2 000 in a minute. If now the level of content of hydrocarbons falls below extreme value (1 200 h/one million), the car can be considered ready to checkup passing.
2. Excessive content of hydrocarbons in the fulfilled gases of the car speaks about burning out of motive oil, or that is more probable, about incompleteness of combustion of fuel.

1. The only check of a condition of the fulfilled gases of the diesel engine is measurement of intensity of an exhaust. For check it is necessary to lift several times sharply turns to maximum for the unloaded engine.

For performance of this check extremely important that the gas-distributing belt was in good repair!

2. Excessive intensity of the fulfilled gases in most often is caused by pollution of the filtering air cleaner element, otherwise it is necessary to ask for the help specialists of car service.