So after the power steering packing up on my Furby, rendering it drive-bound until Monday, a bright spark friend of hubby's has dropped something on the electric window switch in hubby's Furby, knocked the middle of it out, which has jammed underneath and is preventing the switch from coming upwards (cue irritation for the driver having to adjust their passenger's window!) We can't see how to get the arm rest off to fetch the broken piece out though. Any ideas?

There are 3 shallow clips around the outter edge (facing into the car)...

Then one larger hook at the front (towards the light switch).

Then one wide and flat lip clip at the back(door card) towards the rear.

Be very careful with the last one, if you yank on it to much you'll bend it forever and it'll never sit back down as it did..

The trick is to prise it up just far enough to poke something in from the front and push the clip away from the little lip it pops round.

Unfortunately, this is one of those things that until you've done it once you'll never get what anyone quite means when they describe it..

EDIT:

Once you've got this off, slide the rear rest forward and it'll come straight off.. no problem.. removing these two should allow you to fix the problem.. to actually remove the whole handle/arm rest means removing the door card and unscrewing from behind!!!

If you hang about I'll post a picture of the part your trying to remove... removed! I've got mine of right now as it happens

Edited 25 July, 200916 yr by reflex88

OK, here.. you can see all I'm on about now

The white paper and glue is me attempting to repair the clip on this piece. I bought a replacement for it but it's not really the same colour. The last owner up-rated the speakers but just yanked this off the door and hence it never clipped back down. Hopefully this'll fix it and I can have it back in, in the right colour

Be aware though.. the window switch module screws to this.. you can see where on the pic. It makes poking the bigger flatter clip off quite tricky.

If yours has actually broken take it to Skoda and order a new one.. they're £1.30!!!!!!!!!

Edited 26 July, 200916 yr by reflex88

That's excellent reflex, thank-you

I did the switch today..

be prepared... that larger flat clip is a complete pain in the behind! You'll need to remove the rear arm rest part before you can get a poke in at the flat clip, you do that by un doing the smaller slips on the above part and then sliding the arm rest part forwards towards the light switch.. then it should pop off.

Apparently Skoda have a special tool (like a screwdriver with a bend in it) that you can slip up the small hole on the bottom of the arm rest below the clip and prize it off... might be worth trying to do it this way as there's massive potential for damage here just poking around! God it can get frustrating! lol!

Why Skoda made this all so over complicated to remove I'm not sure.... and the most annoying this is that on allot of Octavias I heard these parts are prone to just poping off them selves! HA! Perhaps this is why the Fabia's is so tricky!

Edited 26 July, 200916 yr by reflex88

That clip on my passenger door is broken too. The only problem now is the handle trim part can now be pusher forward and lifted/fall out, it happened to me last week.

What did you say was only £1.50, was it the clip, the trim piece or the switch?

The whole part I posted a picture of is under £2 (could be before VAT..) but still under £3 That's the bit you'll need to replace.

I'm sure it was £1.30 when I got my two new ones in March.

Mine were doing exactly what yours are doing... allowing the elbow rest to slide forward and under all the time....

I'm finding this a huge pain in the backside to do and can't seem to find the clip mentioned.

This is how far i've gotten.....

Any help???