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The high level brake light comes out with some trim removal tools, just need a wide and thin one to work in and lever it out. It doesn't seem like it'll come out at first but be patient and it will. Be gentle so you don't snap the clips. It's worth ensuring the area is pretty clean first, so you don't scratch the surrounding paint by pressing on any grit. The hose comes in from the left and goes across the light to the nozzle on the right hand side.

Kick off and threaten to invoice them for your wasted time whilst they went about trying to find moneymaking problems to solve that you didn't ask about in the first place. About £600 per hour should cover it I reckon. So annoying.

Our 2016 Mk3 estate did not have a grille, hence why I bought one. 👍 When I read up on it, I found a load of posts on the Drive2.ru site whose car was the same. Perhaps ours was just lost, apologies if this is not the case across the board. Can't edit my previous post now.

Ah maybe the facelift has the grille as standard, ours is a 2016. 👍 The scuttle cover is fixed into a channel at the bottom of the windscreen, just lift/bend it up rather than trying to remove it from that channel. As far as I'm aware the drains just go straight down into each wheel arch, easy enough to test by using the front washer and watching it dump all over the floor. 🤣 PS: the aircon serves as a dehumidifier, not using it at all times may be adding to the problem. I get your concern though, I would suggest taking it somewhere to be looked at because it sounds like a pretty serious drainage issue for the carpets to be getting wet.

You don't need to fully remove it to get your hand under, just pull off the rubber trim at the bottom edge and lift up the cover from the corner. The rubber trim holds the cover and metalwork to each other. Another thing you definitely should do is clear out any crap behind the front wheel arch liners (the side behind the wheel, nearest the doors). Only a couple of torx screws to remove. I bet there's a ton of rotting material in there, holding moisture. There was on ours. Just to add to your other post, there's no grille/filter on the intake opening as standard. If you saw a cover, you may have had the AC set to recirculate which physically closes the hole off. I think it's a bit ridiculous for the intake to be completely open so I bought a VW grille, same part fits various models and it just clips into the opening. Part number is 5Z0819044.

£97, flipping 'eck. Glad you're sorted but I think the OEM part is Mahle/Behr, they're £30-£40 on eBay etc.

Looks like a Mk2, 2015 registration but matches this diagram from the 2014 model year. https://www.startmycar.com/gb/skoda/fabia/info/fusebox/2014#anchorfusebox1 You need to rotate the image 180deg for RHD.

Could you not just buy a single 16in alloy wheel? Loads on eBay.

USER ERROR! 🤣 Just remembered that I'd previously disabled wireless Android Auto in the settings, on the assumption we'd never need it. Turned that back on and of course it works. What a clown. 😂

FWIW my cheap dongle appears to work (and I was able to update the firmware etc), but literally nothing happens when I connect to it via Bluetooth. I then have to factory reset it for the car to even recognise it again, which is a convoluted process of connecting wifi, wifi direct, forgetting networks etc. Hot garbage, straight in the bin. At least it was only £4.

We have a Mk3 Fabia with MIB2 5Q0035842B control unit, which has Android Auto/Carplay (without navigation). The firmware is MST2_EU_SK_ZR_P0369T (latest official) and radio database installed is v1.10.60 (latest). I installed these updates myself via SD card. No 5F fault codes are showing, and everything works as expected. Signal is fine and all expected stations are being received. The DAB now playing/song/station information is being received by the MIB unit, and can always be seen if we change the view to any of the other styles. However on the main preset view (as the below extract from the manual), almost all of the time it just shows the ensemble name (e.g. D1 National, SDL National, BBC National). Every now and then after starting the car, the ensemble is replaced with the now playing/song/station information, which updates and changes dynamically. There seems to be no pattern to this. In addition, I've noticed that when the song information is showing correctly, the bottom row of buttons collapses neatly down to icons after a couple of seconds of inactivity, as per the example from the manual below. Whereas when the ensemble is showing, the text below each icon is present and stays on. So it does seems like the icons are meant to collapse in normal use, and therefore song information is meant to be showing all the time. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour, and is there anything we can do about it? It's a minor thing but we would prefer it to always show the song information. The only other reference I've found to it was on a Seat forum.

One thing I've noticed is a lot of the generic dongles seem to have the same chipsets inside, so there are firmware updates available. Takes a bit of messing to perform, but worth a look @JimmyFlan.

I've just bought a dirt cheap one from eBay to play around with, not expecting much.

Just to confirm for anyone who may come across this in future, I sorted my issue and it was due to a prior dodgy wiring job, presumably done to pass an MOT. More details in a thread I made in the Mk3 forum, but needless to say, what they'd done with the wiring is why I couldn't find anyone else with the exact same problem. 🤣