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Afraid not, but it's really rather simple. erWin manual helped for parts location, which, everyone probably knows, you pay £6 for an hours usage and you can download every Skoda vehicle service, repair and maintenance manual available to the main dealers. If it's something someone wants to tackle, I'd be more than happy to share more detail.

Further to this, I carried out diagnostics using Carista which showed error codes: 00710, 01271, 01272 and 01274. Online search didn't help too much apart from telling me that they were for the ventilation motors, so I thought I'd get the tools out. So far, after a few hundred miles, it has been fine. Summarised, this is what I did: 1) remove the climatronic unit and dismantle it, clean the dust off the internal temperature sensor fan, duct and surrounding areas thoroughly, 2) remove the glove box, passenger footwell air duct and top centre vents, then take out the motor carrier for the 2 left hand vent motors. 3) dismantle and check the motors, re-soldered the joints on the PCB, 4) reassemble everything, reset the error codes using Carista and all works perfectly! I'm not sure which bit solved the problem, but I'd hazard a guess that the dust around the temperature sensor and its fan could have confused it. This part of the job is easily done in 15 mins, so well worth trying. To do the whole lot is a couple of hours. Couple of things I found it helpful to do was to take the top centre vent out (10 second job) which meant I could see the defrost motor and centre vent flap to check operation. Secondly, if you put the passenger seat right back and stick your head into the footwell and look up (can get uncomfortable :)), you can see the motor that controls the heat mix, and also the re-circulation vents etc. Quite rewarding and not a difficult job. Just to note that when you take the glove box out, you have to unplug the airbag on off swith and an airbag error will display on the dash until you plug it back in and restart the vehicle. Hope this helps someone.

Great thought process! I hadn't ever thought that far; have had plenty of deeply discharged batteries, but never any faulty / damaged charge leads from the alternator.

@EhiJosh Battery can go into deep discharge which alternator will not charge. Also the battery can have a faulty cell. In both these scenarios the battery can power lights etc. Deeply discharged batteries can be charged with some chargers, but normally replacement battery is the way forward.

Hello All, Our 2013 Rapid, which we have owned for 4 years and 35k miles, has developed an intermittent although regular fault whereby the air that comes through the vents will fluctuate between hot and cold with a cycle every few seconds. Infrequently, it will remain blowing hot, and this can be so hot that even with the system turned off the hot air still finds its way through. These symptoms happen whether the aircon is on or off, whether the Auto function is on or off, and no setting makes the slightest difference whilst it is happening. There appear to be no environmental conditions that affect this either, ie internal or external temperatures have no impact, driving fast, slow, or being stationery have no impact etc. Our local dealer performed a system reset to no avail, and is now offering further diagnostics at £80/hr ... Any help would be gratefully received! Thanks in advance.