Hi guys,

Been watching the forum for a few weeks now and have found at extremely useful so far so took the plunge and registered.

I have recently become the owner of a 2000 1.9 SDI Fabia in dark green with the elegance alloys. Great car but had a few issues so far:

Passenger side window regulator - £80 fix from dealer, fitted by my brother!

Creaking dash - fixed with loads of foam as per a guide on here!

And most recently - when starting from cold, it never starts first time - i turn the ignition off agian and then back on and it will splutter in to life.. any ideas?

Oh and i nearly forgot - the internal temperature knob seems to have 2 settings - hot or cold!! Is it usually this erratic?!

any help would be appreciated.

Chris

http://briskoda.net/...ost__p__2148980 Dunno why it's defaulting to post 4, but the whole thing should explain it.

For the heater, try that.

And welcome to the site, someone will be along soon for the engine issues I'd guess.

Edited 9 November, 201015 yr by TriggerFish

Thanks will give that a try tomorrow.

Another issue I had was the interior light in the front - the central switch which controls whether the light comes on when the doors open or not kind of fell out the other day and I can't see how to refit it, subsequently i now have no interior light when the doors open?

The slider bit you mean? I sort of forced mine apart once while failing to remove the light unit.

You'll need to remove the light first -

- prise of the plastic cover/lense

- undo the 2 screws

- use a screwdriver or something to realse the tabs at the side and then pull the unit out.

Once it's off there should be a metal slider that moves with the slider that the push on the unit. Then it's a case of fitting the metal over the tab on the slider. I used a folded bit of plastic to add tension between the slider and the unit itself.

That should make more sense once the unit is out of the car.

Excellent another job to try - its stuck with blu tack at the moment!

Hi,

I had the same problem with the interior light last week. I got in the car and pushed the switch and it fell out into my hand. The next day I took the complete light assembly out to fix it. I was looking at the whole thing and it looked as if something was missing?, so I put my fingers in the cut out in the headlining and felt about.......Bingo!...out came a small cone shaped spring. I had a little trouble getting the spring to stay on at first, so improvised and made a wedge from a bit of plastic card (like a tesco club card) and wedged it between the 2 prongs - Hey-presto!

Not had any drama's with the switch since.

I got my crayons out to draw you a pic of how it should look

Ah! That's what I must have lost, that small spring bit on mine.

On your diagram, my bit of plastic (the substitute to the spring) goes between the 'sliding on/off button' and 'interior light body'.

So if I can't find the spring, I will go for the plastic!

Thanks for your help, i must say i am very impressed with the various bits of artwork I have seen looking around the forum!!

Ah! That's what I must have lost, that small spring bit on mine.

On your diagram, my bit of plastic (the substitute to the spring) goes between the 'sliding on/off button' and 'interior light body'.

Hey, who cares as long as it works hey!..

Hey, who cares as long as it works hey!..

Yup, about the only thing on that car that did near the end.

I cant seem to get the metal connector piece to stay in place, if i hold a piece of plastic on and open and shut door it works, but with no spring i can't get ti to stay in place... any ideas?

I cant seem to get the metal connector piece to stay in place, if i hold a piece of plastic on and open and shut door it works, but with no spring i can't get ti to stay in place... any ideas?

Could try looking at a few pens, see if one has a suitable spring?

http://briskoda.net/...ost__p__2148980 Dunno why it's defaulting to post 4, but the whole thing should explain it.

For the heater, try that.

And welcome to the site, someone will be along soon for the engine issues I'd guess.

I tried hoovering out the heater to no avail! I'm not sure if it would be the flap motors as it does blow cold when on the lowest possible temperature on the dial, but then above that it seems to have a mind of its own and just blow hot at the same temperature wherever the dial is set!!! Anybody any experience of this? COuld it be a thermostat?

My octavia is the same, blows cold if temp dial is all the way round at cold, anything slightly above blows hot...always has.

I'm sure the temp is controlled by a cable from the dial to an arm somewhere on the heater box

Edited 15 November, 201015 yr by skoda norm

Maybe try removing the cover and cleaning it gentle that way? (That's what I did, only more chance of breaking something this way!) Could be the hoover can't get to it, otherwise I'd have no idea.