Hi,

Had my Yeti for 2 weeks now and enjoying getting to know it in more detail. One thing that I have noticed is that it looks as though the windscreen was replaced as it now has a heated element screen (just like the ford type). As my car is an S model there are no controls/options for a heated screen so I was wondering if anyone knows where the screen electrical connections may be found (assuming they were not snipped off) before I go digging under the dash. A future project for me could then be the fitting of a timer relay and control switch wired off the non-canbus circuits.

I had a new screen fitted and they turn up with a heated screen they just cut off the plug has I was going away later that day

The screen connectors are near the bottom corners of the screen, you will need to remove the plastic scuttle panel to see them.

Many thanks Valep and Gizmo68. I suspect that any connectors may have been snipped off when the screen was replaced. I will look at the bottom corners though, just in case my luck is in.

Cheers

I will say, that if the connectors have been cut off, and you try to connect any other way, then you could create a hot spot on the screen.

A friend of mine used some of that silver paint on the main connector, and the rear screen imploded on the motorway, glass everywhere. this was caused by a hot spot on a toughened screen.

So if you do have a new screen, and the replacement is heated... get the engineer to leave the connectors on...

Incidentally, does anyone recall who the glass supplier was?

Thanks for the advice Rustic, however I would not try making new connections as the front screen is laminated with the fine heating elements embedded in the sandwich, whilst the rear screen is toughened with the heating elements printed on the inside surface. Having seen the result of water ingress into a laminated screen with the resultant milky stains I would not interfere with the edge sealing on any costs. The conducting paint that can be bought would therefore only work on the printed element type; although in my experience it was allways a bodge that may or may not work and did not look very good - all in my opinion!

My car was second hand when I bought it and it came like this so I cant help with the supplier of the replacement screen.