My Fabias damp rear door fabric panels (door cards) need to be removed, so that the innards can be resealed. How do you remove the panels, as I can't see any screw fixings (manual rear window winders). Any advice very welcome.

if it's like the front doors, there will be some bolts hidden inside the arm rest / grab handle. Haven't got round to doing the rears. If you do a search for one of my posts in the ICE section, it'll tell you how to remove the front ones for reference.

Might of been better off in the the 'Fabia' section

I don't have direct experience myself - but did take a photo of the inside of the door card when it was off for retrimming - here it is so you can see where the fixings are:

There's a larger version (1600x1200 = 256kb) at

http://www.davidrjones.freeserve.co.uk/skoda/rear_door_card_large.jpg

if it's like the front doors, there will be some bolts hidden inside the arm rest / grab handle. Haven't got round to doing the rears. If you do a search for one of my posts in the ICE section, it'll tell you how to remove the front ones for reference.

many thanks, i appreciate you taking the time to explain things-John

I don't have direct experience myself - but did take a photo of the inside of the door card when it was off for retrimming - here it is so you can see where the fixings are:

There's a larger version (1600x1200 = 256kb) at

http://www.davidrjones.freeserve.co.uk/skoda/rear_door_card_large.jpg

Excellent advice-many thanks- John

Might of been better off in the the 'Fabia' section

Thanks, i'm still trying to figure out how this excellent site works!

Don't worry it will be far easier in a fortnight

Anyone mind if I transcribe this thread and photo into a permenant record?

Anyone mind if I transcribe this thread and photo into a permenant record?

You'll be wanting a similar picture of the FRONT door card too then...

I'll resize and I can sort of bypass the limits

If you don't mind me in principal taking your photo..credit given of course, likewise to Xavier's previous comments.

I'll resize and I can sort of bypass the limits

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You're fine to use my photos - they'll be on my Fabia website when I eventually sort one out. I'll sort out the front doors too but can't from work...

Here's the equivalent view of the front door card:

Larger version at http://www.davidrjones.freeserve.co.uk/skoda/front_door_card_large.jpg

... and to complete the picture, the view from the right side so you can see which bits of the armrests come off:

Larger version at http://www.davidrjones.freeserve.co.uk/skoda/door_cards_large.jpg