Its the massive (relative) capacitors and resistors that screw up current flow and reverse discharge through the common earth of the headlights and wiper motor that causes the damage.

 

None of this makes sense to me. The common earth is common to everything why would a motor be damaged in advance of all the other electronics ? A 12v motor with 12v discharging  through it should be fine. Motors are not electrically sensitive devices (relative to al the other sensitive electronics).. Still further why would that happen? The motor would have its own driver chip or SCR. Why would the HID capacitor discharge through that unless it has already shorted the motor driver circuit and damaged the motor controller first. I'd love to know if anyone has a definitive answer, because this all seems very unlikely.

In case its is just a coincidence, and the cause is not related to incorrect electrofu, my first Octavia had the wipers stop working 6 weeeks after the end of warranty. Dealer refysed to even look at it (Farmers Leics, will not reuse).

So feeling poor at the time, I had a look and it turned out to be the wiper spindles seized. A strip and greasing worked as there obviously had not been any grease there ever before.

New rack was fairly expensive I think, so it stayed like it was until fragged.

Mr Farmer retired and sold up to Sandicliffe, so expect service to get worse if you were there before the takeover. If it was after, then that is what to expect from Sandicliffe.

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I actually bought my car from Keeble (motto - you don't buy a car to ride on the bus) in March 1999. Some time after that Farmer's took over and as far as it affected me, customer service plummeted.

Having moved, I now live far enough away that the likely hood of ever having to darken their door is remote.

What ever the ins and outs, dealers should be aware that they have to be on the ball all the time. Sure mistakes will be made, but the way in which the fall out is dealt with is critical and persistant poor choices can be terminal.

I spent 25 years working in the motor industry and OEM supliers, and once that went, in the retail motor trade until I couldn't stand the incompetence any longer.

Almost all the companies I worked for eventually found themselves with more creditors than customers. Maybe it was me, but I prefer to think I was not so stupid that I could not see the writing on the wall. In ten foot high letters. In bright red florescent paint.

Plenty on here who have become disenchanted with either their supplying dealer or Skoda UK or both. Mix that in with lowering standards of quality control, certain design and technical faults which are denied and heaps of good value good quality alternatives, the future for many could be something other than Skoda shaped.

Bit of off topic drift there. Sorry Danial.

what was the issue in the end danial???