Freddie43

Thanks again everybody. Glad these notes are still here (with my comments of 6 September 2014) as I am having to replace the clip again - thanks to grandson who was fascinated with how it works - and loves to fiddle to destruction. A pity he had to wait till the colder wetter weather but it has to be fixed before we go away next week!

Oops! Just over two years after I replaced the resistor pack (with much help from here - thanks guys!) and the low speed resistor has gone again. Thinks: why do they go in the winter? It would be so much easier to fix in the summer!

TMB - thanks for reading my post But there must be other places which wouldn't give me cuts, scars and back ache! The only sensible way to swap mine over would be to remove the windscreen, as unlike earlier photos my 2008 car has no slack in the cabling.

I forgot to say... Useful instructions and photos at:http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/243587-heater-blower-resistor-change-help/

Thanks for that post Thisday. Wish I had found it before I wasted hours and much blood yesterday trying to fasten the new part in - bought on eBay but it doesn't fit (for the reasons you describe). TIP: Make sure you have got the new part in before you connect up the plug. I connected the plug first and can't get it off to file down the tabs as described above! (More blood expected!). All in all, what a b****y stupid place to put something which is likely to need replacing!

Sorry. I am a newbie here. I can't seem to edit my last post (above) I just wanted to say that the two plastic nuts right down the bottom of the boot cover are 10mm and you have to lift out the grey polystyrene tool storage unit to get at them. Also the Torx are mainly T15, but the one under the retractable hook is T25

Thanks sharky09 - brilliant set of notes - took a bit of time but must have saved me a bomb. Also I recycled the clip by strapping it up with a cable tie. I have an 08 Fabia Estate, and like aalopes and Roadford I had to remove two plastic nuts right down the bottom of the boot cover. But also with the torx under the retractable hook you need to tie something onto the hook to stop it falling down inside the cover!