Hey all,

Can a passenger door be easily replaced with a second hand one from a different car (same make and model, obviously: a Skoda Fabia 1.4 from 2003), or are there important considerations that complicate matters (ie: central locking, key codes)?

Thanks,

Nick

As long as you're swapping like-for-like then it shouldn't be a problem. The central locking unit only does what the ECU tells it, it's not individually coded, and there's no key barrel in the passenger side to worry about. I think the worst that would happen is if you got a door with manual locking/manual windows and left the connections loose, the ECU would flag up fault codes but it shouldn't stop those features working on the other doors.

It's easy enough to swap the internals from the old door anyway, if going to the effort of swapping the door.

Someone unknown crashed into the door, hence why it needs replacement. Luckily, the damage is constrained to just the passenger door, so I assume I can simply remove the two bolts, disconnect the electronics pipe and the angle limiter and fit a new door. I have a Haynes manual so I also hope describes the process in detail

I'm thinking about doing similar - some scrote kicked both my drivers side doors and creased the skin so one of those dent repair vans cannot fix it.

Looking at getting doors from a breakers but I'd also need to replace the windows as they are tinted!

Anyone comment on how hard this would be?