Superb door electrics have failed

[Goldenwonder]

But if an odd one,

came back to my car after a day at work & the drivers side front & rear door appear to have lost all electrics-Windows, mirrors & central locking doesn't work, yet does on the passenger side.

I've read about the water ingress issues, but it's been so dry recently & parked under cover that I thought this unlikely.

Anyone else had anything similar?

its on a 61 plate 170tdi Elegance

[Nathanio]

Most likely the wiring in the door has failed. The master controller is in the drivers doors and the others are slaves.  

 

Check the wiring in the drivers door jam that goes in the rubber boot. 

[silver1011]

Have a look in here for broken wires...

 

 

[gianthotdog]

I think there is a master controller in both front doors.

 

Drivers side doors are controlled by controller in drivers front.

Passenger side doors controlled by control module in  passenger front.

 

mine did this recently. Solved with new loom in front passenger door.

[Gary17]

Just done mine today, 3 broken wires on drivers door , thin green , thin orange and thicker red, joined them and rear drivers door electrics and driver window works now.

[Ubatfastard2]

I'm seeing the same problem on my Superb, central locking and Kessys on drivers side not working along with windows and mirrors, they were all working okay up till now and all failed at the same time so I'm assuming that there is one wire common to all these systems that causing the problem. Does anyone have any ideas as to what colour wire the culprit might be and is there any trick to removing the rubber boot to get at the wiring.

 

Thanks in advance, Jim

[silver1011]

Once you get inside the rubber boot you'll soon see which wire it is, there are plenty in there so look out for stretched, frayed or broken ones.

 

Get yourself a soldering iron, solder and some heat shrink ready.

[Ubatfastard2]

I managed to get into the boot and found broken wires, the breaks were deep inside the boot near where it's bonded onto the wiring harness, a bit of a mare to repair the wires but everything is working now so I'm a happy bunny.

 

Cheers, Jim.

[skoda2007]

Hey guys,

 

Please help as my "trusted specialist mechanic" left me with inoperative locks/windows on  driver's side; need wire loom OEM number. Dealership/Tps will not provide so, any ideas on how to get it?

 

many thanks to all you,

 

Georg

[Gary17]

Open drivers door and u need to cut rubber away between hinges exposing wiring loom, u will then notice a couple of broken wires off constant bending of door opening that are snapped, usually orange red and thinner orange, connect these together and will work again, lad at taxi rank where I work , it happened to him yesterday and I sorted it, hope this helps mate.

[superbdreams]

1 hour ago, Gary17 said:

u (you) need to cut rubber away

 

Really !?

[skoda2007]

On 22 April 2017 at 22:01, gianthotdog said:

I think there is a master controller in both front doors.

 

Drivers side doors are controlled by controller in drivers front.

Passenger side doors controlled by control module in  passenger front.

 

mine did this recently. Solved with new loom in front passenger door.

Where did you got your part from? Did you research the part number yourself or got it from the dealer? Intrigued to find out how to get the correct part number as dealer not very cooperative. Is there a website that allows one to input his reg. no. or chassis no. to get the right part no.? Surely there has got to be a way as dealership prices are a bit too much for most.

 

 

[chimaera]

3 minutes ago, skoda2007 said:

Where did you got your part from? Did you research the part number yourself or got it from the dealer? Intrigued to find out how to get the correct part number as dealer not very cooperative. Is there a website that allows one to input his reg. no. or chassis no. to get the right part no.? Surely there has got to be a way as dealership prices are a bit too much for most.

 

 

You can try www.oemepc.com for part numbers. Dealers generally won't give out the part number since that would allow you to buy the part elsewhere and they'd prefer you to buy it from them. If there is more than one dealer in your area it's no harm to shop around.

[skoda2007]

On 31 March 2018 at 17:14, Gary17 said:

Open drivers door and u need to cut rubber away between hinges exposing wiring loom, u will then notice a couple of broken wires off constant bending of door opening that are snapped, usually orange red and thinner orange, connect these together and will work again, lad at taxi rank where I work , it happened to him yesterday and I sorted it, hope this helps mate.

Thanks Gary, will give it a try before forking out a small fortune on a new loom. Will keep you posted,

 

Cheerio

[skoda2007]

11 minutes ago, chimaera said:

You can try www.oemepc.com for part numbers. Dealers generally won't give out the part number since that would allow you to buy the part elsewhere and they'd prefer you to buy it from them. If there is more than one dealer in your area it's no harm to shop around.

Thanks Chimaera, did tried it a few days ago but it couldn't recognise my chassis no. so I sent them a request for support; still awaiting for it. Out of curiosity, do all chassis no's start with numbers or letters, as using their vin search facility it would appear to imply that it should start with a number? 

 

Cheers,

Georg

Edited 1 April, 2018 by skoda2007

[chimaera]

3 hours ago, skoda2007 said:

Thanks Chimaera, did tried it a few days ago but it couldn't recognise my chassis no. so I sent them a request for support; still awaiting for it. Out of curiosity, do all chassis no's start with numbers or letters, as using their vin search facility it would appear to imply that it should start with a number? 

 

Cheers,

Georg

I've never bothered with the VIN lookup: it's pretty trivial to look up by make, model and year.