HI everyone  i am looking to buy new front wiper blades for my fabia 1.2 tsi 65 plate. Looking at bosch model  A556S as it comes up on some websites as suitable for my car, however on other websites such as on eBay where I can buy them cheaper this model comes up as unsuitable! It is the fitting where you press the small square button and slide the wiper off. It doesn't have to be Bosch I suppose but mistified as to the conflicting information. Anyone help here or suggest a model that I'd definitely ok for my car. 

I have a set of A556S in the garage, just checked them against the car-perfect.

Thanks peter its strange because when i put my reg plate into any ebay sellers it comes back as not suitable also i have had a direct reply from sellers saying they are not suitable for my car, but when you go into eurocarparts website for example this is the model it recommends. I assume the actual fitting part is the same on this model ie the square button you press in !

14 minutes ago, ECK54 said:

 I assume the actual fitting part is the same on this model ie the square button you press in !

Correct! I think I actually bought the set for my Citigo, which has now gone.

https://www.wiperblades.co.uk/skoda-fabia-hatchback-years-2015-to-2017/bosch-a556s-aerotwin-wiper-blade/

Edited 28 November, 20178 yr by peter3197

The pack contains several adapters, for various fitments.

 

Just choose the correct one and your good to go  

Cant rely on the ebay reg checker for anything car wise. Usually throws up more spanners in the works. 

I think the 'tables' they generically use are faulty and are copied from other poorly maintained 'automotive' tables.

Found this out when looking for sundries such as headlight bulbs, brake gasket seals. The list goes on...   

 

Every configuration of car is supposed to be covered within each range eg VW, Skoda ,then you have sporty models with differences not included, then the yearly differences....

 

This is about the best link someone gave me on here, all the official VW / Skoda parts can be found by cross referencing to the car manual, which confusingly might not be correct for your year!

 

http://www.oemepc.com/skoda

Edited 28 November, 20178 yr by Kobayashi

4 minutes ago, Damo said:

The pack contains several adapters, for various fitments.

 

Just choose the correct one and your good to go  

Not in the Bosch A556S. 

Might be because I bought this single why I got the adapters (I had butchered my right blade cutting it down for the sunstrip)

Maybe you don’t get the adapters in the front set then

 

Thanks  everyone for all your help and comments, yes damo seems as if you buy a single wiper it shows different types of fittings but the set just shows the push button type. Have managed to get a set from carpartsforless with discount code for just less than £17 although a seller on ebay is selling the same model for £14 but says they are not suitable for my car!

Have just replaced my front wiper blades from my local car parts shop for just over £17 as the shop is a short walk away I took the old ones with me. He measured each one to get the right length and each blade he pulled out of the box had several different fittings the one for my car had 2 spacer wings that had to be removed (they just pull off) he checked the width first with a micrometer before removing the wings. Putting them back on the car was a bit fiddly you need to start them off then push from the back of the clip to compress the locking strip then it slide down easily don't force it. Pleased I took the old ones in with me to make sure I got the right fittings Joe

PS Took the rear wiper blade off it was ok but it has a smaller locking fitting than the fronts

In the matter of wipers, or any other safety-related kit I would trust someone like Eurocarparts every time. Ebay sellers? Probably not at all. Saving a few coppers on something vital is not economy, it is daft...how often do you replace wiper blades, after all?

 

do you buy cheap lubes, or ditch-finder tyres, or dodgy fuel, or brake linings? So why try to save coppers on visibility?

 

Sorry, just one of my foibles.

Put my fabia in for its 2nd service yesterday into local skoda garage, last year they recommended i changed my wipers (twice a year  they recommend)  after  my 1st service. Got a mechanic i know to check them he said they were fine. So before i put it in for its 2nd service i bought new ones . Guess what they said i needed a new rear windscreen wiper!! The wiper i bought was off ebay but its a bosch make brand new  delivered in the box. So whats going on was it a 2nd hand dodgy wiper put in the box or are the skoda garage at it!. The wiper looks brand new and good to me.

I took my Fabia 3 in for its first service 2 years ago and the service report recommended a new back wiper blade because it was not clearing the back screen properly, I asked the service manager to get it changed but he said that they did not have a replacement available. I asked him what should I do and he said just to give it a good clean and bend it a little to re-tension it, which I did, and it is no better or worse now than it was then two years later. The rear wiper blade has always been extremely noisy, like something you might hear after dark in the Serengeti. However, it keeps my estate Fabia rear window clear; you just don't want to use it unless its raining fairly steadily, or you want to annoy your passengers. As for the front blades, they have worked very well for nearly three years now. Keep the blades and the windscreen as clean as you can and don't let the blades scrape over ice.

19 hours ago, alltorque said:

In the matter of wipers, or any other safety-related kit I would trust someone like Eurocarparts every time. Ebay sellers? Probably not at all. Saving a few coppers on something vital is not economy, it is daft...how often do you replace wiper blades, after all?

 

do you buy cheap lubes, or ditch-finder tyres, or dodgy fuel, or brake linings? So why try to save coppers on visibility?

 

Sorry, just one of my foibles.

 

I get where you are coming from, but, I try to do my homework as soon as I buy a new car and so build up a list of service parts that will fit that car, I found the hard way that Halfords etc bulb listing is not too good for any cars I've bought, so started with bulbs, then wipers and on to proper service items.

 

If you manage to do that, you can boldly go and make good use of ECP special deals when special ones turn up, a lot of rear hatch wiper blades for "car specific" if you want to replace like with like without having an inch of two of adaptors.

 

A friend had great trouble finding the correct wiper for his old SAAB 9-5 estate, none of the usual big names locally could give him one that fitted, so with nothing to lose, he headed for ebay and got the right one first time - so shopping remotely can work, I reconfirmed that recently when buying new window handles for my daughter's flat, local "proper well established window repair place" when I handed them over a sample old handle gave me the wrong version, parking cost me 70pence, seeing as I trusted them I shuffled off only to find that they were wrong in a way that a professional should have known, went back and got the correct version, parking cost me 70pence, seeing as I trusted them again shuffled off only to find that only 3 out of the 4 had locks fitted, went back got that one replaced, parking cost 70pence!   So after building up a lot of new "knowledge" about these items, I could have shopped online and got the same thing cheaper, with overnight delivery free - and no parking costs, oh bother!

 

Edit:- by the way, I prefer to fit the same as what was fitted at factory, but it seems like VW Group might now be using FG or Federal Mogul - though maybe they are an okay company and have just taken over what I've considered to be a "better" brand.

Edited 17 December, 20178 yr by rum4mo

20 hours ago, rum4mo said:

A friend had great trouble finding the correct wiper for his old SAAB 9-5 estate, none of the usual big names locally could give him one that fitted, so with nothing to lose, he headed for ebay and got the right one first time - so shopping remotely can work, I reconfirmed that recently when buying new window handles for my daughter's flat, local "proper well established window repair place" when I handed them over a sample old handle gave me the wrong version, parking cost me 70pence, seeing as I trusted them I shuffled off only to find that they were wrong in a way that a professional should have known, went back and got the correct version, parking cost me 70pence, seeing as I trusted them again shuffled off only to find that only 3 out of the 4 had locks fitted, went back got that one replaced, parking cost 70pence!   So after building up a lot of new "knowledge" about these items, I could have shopped online and got the same thing cheaper, with overnight delivery free - and no parking costs, oh bother!

 

Only 70 pence? Our council charges a minimum of £1.20 an hour for the pleasure of parking in one of their car parks! 

Well that was Edinburgh probably close to but not quite in the Central Zone, street parking, so it would probably be over £3 an hour.

 

I used to take my MIL shopping in a local to her shopping centre, so that she did not need to walk far, though they charged £2 an hour - and we always ended up being in there for just over an hour, so I think that meant £6 - very annoying.

 

A small local market town near me, a pleasant place to go if food things needed buying from proper independent outlets like family owned butchers and bakers, only charges 20Pence an hour and only on Saturdays, now that is crazy as it is a local visitor hot spot, so why not charge maybe 50Pence an hour 7 days a week now that local authorities have had their "grants" cut back, it would not make any difference to who and how many people stopped and shopped and walked there!  At one time I seem to remember that they effectively gave the first hour parking free by operating a system with the local traders to give you discount on the handing over of a section of the parking ticket.