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

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

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

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

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.

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

Props to Darkside for recording everything.

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 😃

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.

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.

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 😎

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

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!

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.

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

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

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!

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

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 👌🏻

Ryan smashes it again. Great series Alex!

PD POWEEERRRRR!!!

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….

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

good combo to link with darkside! massive fan of there magic! ;) good one alex!

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.

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

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

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! 😂

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?

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!

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

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

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

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!!!!!!!!

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.

Darkside Developments are absolute magicians,definitely the best diesel tuning company for the VAG group.

I had vw golf mk4 4motion estate and it had 300whp/550nm(lots of darkside goodies), good sleeper for sure and fun af!

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!

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

2 of my favourite channels combined 😁

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Darkside are the best side to be, its fabious

YES THE FABIA VIDEO! Christmas came early, gonna watch this in my pd100 fabia😎

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

Reyt then 🙂

£15-£20 grand to get a normal fabia to the level that 400bhp is at 🤣🤣 darkside are decent but honestly they buy a £200 product, put their name on it and charge £800. £10k max to get your fabia the same as that 400bhp one including wheels etc. You can actually get pd130/150 to 400bhp for around £5k. Darkside are massively overpriced!

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

I'd love this Schkoda! I'd race it on private land against my 12 year old nephew on his Motocross bike ha! I'd probably also teach him to drive it (again, on private land). ......video idea? Haha

Love the Fabia VRS. Good work Alex.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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 💪🏻

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

Can’t believe that the dark side Barnsley lads are getting so much traction. It’s pretty mad. Good on em

My 2 favourite car channels in one video. Love it

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

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

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

I would go to Darkside for the name alone, too cool!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Damn good content that Alex! Literally one of the best ‘petrol head’ (or diesel head in this case) channels on YT! I still want the podcasts back.. I won’t stop asking 😂😂

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

Won't have much change from £3k getting Darkside to do all that work. Will be a quality build though.

Live round corner from darkside , some amazing weapons come from these guys 👍

I bet that 400hp Fabia really flies, respect to darkside.

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

Alex, you've done an amazing job with your own content. So engaging and really entertaining. Looking forward to seeing more of your projects. Keep up the god work my friend 👍

Dark side are king! Proud to be from the ‘TARN!’ 😂

Damn the lighting in their garage is a film makers dream, just like the bat cave

This is fantastic. Forget all the Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis etc, I would far rather watch a car like this being built up with giggles along the way.

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? 😂

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

Thay are such brilliant cars my brother had 1 and was so good to drive would love to own one