12th Dec 2011, 07:14
Linda.
If your car is modern TDI version of the Fabia, I would guess that the final drive ratio is something like 35mph/1000revs, so really, that's what it's geared at. Idle speed is approx 8-900 revs, so the car is probably crawling along at virtually idle. There's a lot of torque so the car continues to do this even uphill. Every car will do this to a certain extent, but a petrol would probably just stall.
I would say this is normal for your vehicle. I have a Focus TDI, and I think mine would do it too (to a certain extent).
11th Dec 2011, 03:48
This is 100% normal, my Nissan Almera does it, my Skoda Octavia did it, and not just in top gear. In traffic I can crawl along (including up hills) at 5+ mph with both feet off the pedals quite happily.
Tim.