I have had my Fabia for 1 week now and already i have had to seal the rear doors and have a Heater with a mind of it's own, not the best start!

Basically my heater will go very cold at minimum temp, or very hot at the maximum temp but wont go anywhere inbetween. I have run the VAGCom diagnostics on it and am getting the temp control flap motor fault. My question is how do you run the flap motor reset? I have had a look and am not sure if i'm doing it right.

If i go to 08 then 04 Basic settings the parameters for each of the different groups doesn't seem to be related top the temp flap motor. Can someone just confirm where this reset is done and exactly what i should be seeing happening?

Second to that how hard and expensive is it to replace the motor myself?

Cheers for any help.

I have had my Fabia for 1 week now and already i have had to seal the rear doors and have a Heater with a mind of it's own, not the best start!

Basically my heater will go very cold at minimum temp, or very hot at the maximum temp but wont go anywhere inbetween. I have run the VAGCom diagnostics on it and am getting the temp control flap motor fault. My question is how do you run the flap motor reset? I have had a look and am not sure if i'm doing it right.

If i go to 08 then 04 Basic settings the parameters for each of the different groups doesn't seem to be related top the temp flap motor. Can someone just confirm where this reset is done and exactly what i should be seeing happening?

Second to that how hard and expensive is it to replace the motor myself?

Cheers for any help.

I thought that once you are in basic settings you hit "GO" or something and you will see the numbers/values changing, and if your are really keen, you can display the flap motor signal while you whack the temperature up and down. My Passat has this problem, flap motor has been in the boot since May, after exercising the motor a few times - HOT > COLD > HOT etc, the traces started to look a bit steadier and it stopped logging faults. Needless to say now that a few months have passed and its too cold to bother to get the dashboard out to change this motor - its started playing up again and I now have the imfamous "grand father clock" TICK<>TOCK as its hunts around - and the car gets a bit hot - but that is okay while its winter! Maybe you should try doing the HOT>COLD.HOT thing quite a few times as you have nothing to lose - changing this motor will be very expensive as it takes quite a few hours of labour.

Is there not any info on doing this "basic settings" on the Rosstech site?

Edited 22 January, 201016 yr by rum4mo

OK so i think the temp control motor is knackered and i will replace. Running basic settings on it in VAGCom doesn't seem to do anything(unless i'm doing it wrong, Cheers for the input rum4mo but there doesn't seem to be much about what you 'should' see happen so must assume what should happen isn't!), it's clicking away to itself and doesn't do anything in between hot and cold.

Next question, how easy is it to replace? Is it a whole centre console out job or can you get to it from the Glovebox side? I would like to take a look tmoz so any assistance would be much appreciated.

Does anyone have the part number for the motor or recommendations where i can get one from?

Thanks

OK so i think the temp control motor is knackered and i will replace. Running basic settings on it in VAGCom doesn't seem to do anything(unless i'm doing it wrong, Cheers for the input rum4mo but there doesn't seem to be much about what you 'should' see happen so must assume what should happen isn't!), it's clicking away to itself and doesn't do anything in between hot and cold.

Next question, how easy is it to replace? Is it a whole centre console out job or can you get to it from the Glovebox side? I would like to take a look tmoz so any assistance would be much appreciated.

Does anyone have the part number for the motor or recommendations where i can get one from?

Thanks

I'd be amazed if this has not been covered in this forum already, the glovebox out trick is for the recirculating air flap motor, the temperature control flap motor tends to demand a "dash board out" I'm afraid. Get a new motor from Skoda, that way you will get the latest version and the correct part - they will find the correct part number.

oh crap mine has this fault seems to be ok with the a/c on all the time though ive had my dash in and out enough time cant b arsed doin it again lol its not that ba of a job though

Ahh it is definitely a dash out job then! How long does it take for the average DIYer to do? Also does anyone know how much the part is?

I find it amazing that for such a common fault there isn't much info on here about how to actually do the job.