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

I'm thrilled that Alex decided to pursue his own path. The content he is producing is truly excellent.

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

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

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.

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

Props to Darkside for recording everything.

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.

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.

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

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 😃

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 😎

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

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.

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

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 :)

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

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!

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

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.

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….

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

Ryan smashes it again. Great series Alex!

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 👌🏻

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

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!!!!!!!!

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

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

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

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!

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! 😂

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

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

PD POWEEERRRRR!!!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 👍

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

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?

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

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

Nice, you always bring in such good blokes to these videos. Gotta do a full detail of the Fabia as well! :D

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

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!

Such great fun little cars. Awesome work Alex.

My 2 favourite car channels in one video. Love it

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

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

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

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!

2 of my favourite channels combined 😁

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

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 💪🏻

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!

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

Darkside are the best side to be, its fabious

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 😂😂

Always liked those motors! Loving the channel Alex!

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

Reyt then 🙂

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

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

£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!

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

Love watching you Alex, always a laugh. Keep up the good work

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

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

Love the cheap car videos. Keep up the good work mate!

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

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 !

Great to see these types of educational programs 👍🏻

Love the Fabia VRS. Good work Alex.

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

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

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

Loving this build! Your smashing it 👊 My vrs has always been one of the main of a long list of cars I've always regretted selling 🤦‍♂️

Great video and wow what a difference it has made

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!

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

Love it alex sick build !

Looking forward to Further mods to the Skoda Fabia Vrs 👍

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

Another brilliant upload!!👏👍

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

Allllways loves fabias. This episode and fabia "series" is mint 👌

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

love companies like darkside wish we had someone like that here

Bring on the 500k, and best of luck to all us subscribers.

Love the build and the content dude

love your videos Alex, would love this fabia to 👍 keep up the good work!

Love the videos I saw Taylor the other day in his silver X5 and he gave me a wave and not gonna lie was awesome just seeing him after watching you guys so much ! Keep the videos up and maybe one day I can be in a video with Alex and Taylor !🤞🤷🏽‍♂️😂

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

getting my gtb2056 turbo fitted next month , can't wait! Great video

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