Like so many Skoda users I have fallen victim to the dreaded damaged front door wiring loom on my Skoda Yeti 2010.  Window control, central locking and mirror controls are now inoperable.  On inspection a significant number of the cables are damaged with two broken.  The two broken are orange in color with black/ grey markings.  The Skoda dealer believes it will cost €300 - €350 to repair and have said I have no case for ' good will gesture' for the cost of the repair as the car is six years old.  I have attempted my own repair with a good soldering iron, bridging cable and heat shrink but the work is extremely difficult in the confined space and the fact that there is absolutely no slack in the cable. Nightmare stuff!  I managed to connect one of the cables again but the other has retreated back into the loom and rubber boot.  The window controls, mirrors and central locking are back working but the system is now indicating a fault in the airbag system.  This fault was not there when I had the initial breaks so I'm wondering have I soldered the wrong wires together? Is the fault as a result of the outstanding broken cable? If this is the case why did the fault not show up initially? Has another cable broken unbeknown to me? Any advice would be gratefully accepted.  Does anybody have the color coding for the cable in the door loom?

Is there anything useful in this?.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/379347-broken-loom-wires-at-drivers-door-hinge-connection-fabia-ii/

Do we know if this problem was resolved / improved for the facelift Yeti ?

Where do the wires break?  In the booted section between the door and the chassis?  I only ask because I am a fan of preventative intervention, so I was planning to take a look at mine to see if anything is awry or to bolster the strength befoore it is.

Where do the wires break?  In the booted section between the door and the chassis?  I only ask because I am a fan of preventative intervention, so I was planning to take a look at mine to see if anything is awry or to bolster the strength befoore it is.

Yes the cables broke in the booted section between the door and the chassis.  Apart from lengthening the cables I'm not sure how effective any strengthening would be. 

Is there anything useful in this?.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/379347-broken-loom-wires-at-drivers-door-hinge-connection-fabia-ii/

Many thanks for this but I was hoping not to have to go that far down the road though I fear the only sensible resolution of the problem/ fault is the full replacement of the door loom 

Do we know if this problem was resolved / improved for the facelift Yeti ?

No sure if it was resolved

Thought I read it was for a short period the fitters assembling the car twisted the loom that put undue strain on it.
As soon as it was being fitted correctly + I suspect a slight lengthening of the loom the problem should not arise.

Perhaps they made a critical measurement error at the design stage rather than poor quality wiring.

You'd think it would be endemic to all though, like Urrell I'd be checking thoroughly.

I have the same issue and had a very similar discussion with a Skoda dealer as the OP. I'd be happy to fit a replacement loom myself but struggling to find any alternative to just ordering from the dealers parts department. From past experience I'm not sure that the prices are very competitive.

Anyone managed to buy a replacement loom at a decent price ?

Edited 10 October, 20169 yr by oct4x4

I have a similar issue on my 2010, looking for a replacement loom. Anyone have any suggestions where to find one? Drivers door loom..

Main dealers. Got mine from Briskoda Spares for about £120.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F163697914348

 

been looking at this one - i think it could be a fix

That will simply replace the old brittle wires with new ones in the same scenario with the badly designed boot. And it'll involve some degree of soldering or crimping to reconnect the old loom to the new wiring. The labour element will be about the same to remove all the door panels etc. but you'll need much longer to do the repair against fitting a new complete loom.

Ok, sounds like a whole new loom is best the and to make sure i het the newer longer one

I did this on my old Roomster, from what you're writing seems I can expect the same on my Yet in the future. But it was not hard to change the whole loom. The only advise I have from the Roomster experience is order the correct part number loom and the easy way to do that is the part number is written on your current loom, so take the door card off and read the number off the white label. The Roomster has a few options of part number, build year, front/rear windows etc. Maybe the Yeti only has one part number as they're always full electric windows as far as I know.   If it is a similar procedure to to Roomie then you will need new door clips as they break so easily and rivets for the speaker. 

Contact Briskoda Parts and give them your reg / vin number and they'll supply the correct part. Cheaper than any other supplier I could find too.

When i google briskoda parts... it doesnt come up. Im a bit newbie i guess

Briskoda Parts is a service specifically for this site. Details here.

 

 

 

Although it's morphed a little since its inception some years ago and now the format is shown here (from later in the thread)

 

 

@Willson (+Willson2)

You appear to have created two separate accounts which isn't allowed in the Briskoda Rules so I've merged them both to Willson.

I've had the door loom doom on a 2010 Yeti with approx 115k miles. 

 

Returning from a night away and filled up with fuel around half way back - afterwards noticed that the doors made the locking noise every time i stopped/started at traffic lights etc.  Puzzled about this but didn't think about it too much until I returned home and unloaded the car.  The 9 year old boy went to retrieve something he'd left in the car and returned to say he couldn't lock the door - after being chuffed that he's learnt to check the doors are locked I went to investigate and discovered the driver and passenger doors didn't lock, show as open on the maxi dot and that the window & mirror switches didn't work.  Some forum browsing in the car pointed to door controller / wiring loom and a fiddly removal of the gaiter in the door showed broken orange wires and damage to many more - a couple of mm of insulation missing and bare copper wires showing.

 

As ever very grateful to the collective forum knowledge for the diagnostics, ordered the replacement loom and read a guide (that I can't find on here anymore) to removing the door card.  There were requests for pictures so here goes. 

 

Pleasingly the replacement wiring loom (~£130) was a revised design - with a slightly dropped loop.  The wiring loom includes the rubber gaiter and plug that connects to the A pillar.

 

Prepared the attached from memory as completed the job in September & have now traded in the car 😞 

 

 

Yeti Driver's Door Wiring Loom.pdf

Given that this issue is evident on the Fabia, Roomster, Yeti, Octavia and Superb it is likely almost all Skoda dealers are aware of the design flaw.

 

If only just out of warranty I'd be pushing for an FOC repair or significant contribution towards the cost.

Mine was well out of warranty, but still wouldn’t go near my local dealer.   They denied that they had any liability under the emission fix because it was >2 years, despite the cert they gave me showing it was 1 day less than 2 years.

 

They’d done the work on a Saturday and I’d collected the car on the Monday.   Dealer seemed to think this was all ok, I disagreed, now they’re black listed.

Many thanks for your pictures and text. The windows on my 2011 old workhorse Yeti (120k mls) stopped working the other day. Checked the forum and investigated the wiring loom in the door gaiter. Sure enough, 3 broken wires and several with damaged insulation. Thanks to your information I removed the door panel in an attempt to find some spare wire length. No go, and the breaks were very close to the door. Managed to tease the ends out of the door and solder extension leads to join the broken ends, insulating with heatshrink. Windows back working, but who knows what's going to fail next!  

On 03/11/2019 at 23:47, rfdYeti said:

I've had the door loom doom on a 2010 Yeti with approx 115k miles. 

 

Returning from a night away and filled up with fuel around half way back - afterwards noticed that the doors made the locking noise every time i stopped/started at traffic lights etc.  Puzzled about this but didn't think about it too much until I returned home and unloaded the car.  The 9 year old boy went to retrieve something he'd left in the car and returned to say he couldn't lock the door - after being chuffed that he's learnt to check the doors are locked I went to investigate and discovered the driver and passenger doors didn't lock, show as open on the maxi dot and that the window & mirror switches didn't work.  Some forum browsing in the car pointed to door controller / wiring loom and a fiddly removal of the gaiter in the door showed broken orange wires and damage to many more - a couple of mm of insulation missing and bare copper wires showing.

 

As ever very grateful to the collective forum knowledge for the diagnostics, ordered the replacement loom and read a guide (that I can't find on here anymore) to removing the door card.  There were requests for pictures so here goes. 

 

Pleasingly the replacement wiring loom (~£130) was a revised design - with a slightly dropped loop.  The wiring loom includes the rubber gaiter and plug that connects to the A pillar.

 

Prepared the attached from memory as completed the job in September & have now traded in the car 😞 

 

 

Yeti Driver's Door Wiring Loom.pdf 2.47 MB · 21 downloads

 

Glad it helped.