I can access the fuse box, with difficulty. But the first time I did it I noticed the damper mechanism was lying in the glove box. I was unable to re-attach it. After a recent service, I noticed that it had been fitted.

Is there a guide on the forum or a more useful You Tube Video how to do this?

 

This one is not very encouraging as the re-attachment of the damper is not shown.

Edited 5 March, 20188 yr by gregoir

What an awkward way to get to the fuse box - that should be something that the owner should be able to do - that is simply a stupid design.

That video you posted is the guide video I used when I fitted my hardwired dash cam. Once you've done it once or twice you can generally work out how to do it.

 

If the damper arm has come out you have to line the notch up so it slots through the side of the glovebox and then turn it at an angle so it doesn't fall back into the glovebox. Then it's a case of hooking it back on to the glovebox from the LH side of the dash with a long screwdriver or something.

 

It's definitely a bit fiddly and unnecessary to get to the fuses but unfortunately it is what it is. 

 

Oh well, I gave up eventually, at least I did manage to change the fuse.

Yeah it's a fiddly little bugger I struggled to get it back when I had a look at my fuse box 

There's a better video on Youtube now by a guy called Chris Horswill, showing how to change the pollen/cabin filter in an Octavia III, which involves removing the glovebox. Similar to the one by Rick Oz but more detailed, better filmed - and doesn't involve removing or using a screwdriver via the side panel. Less fiddly for what is, as has been acknowledged, a ridiculously fiddly job.

I broke mine first time I removed it ... may have to source another and fix it using these vids

 

22 hours ago, brian62c said:

There's a better video on Youtube now by a guy called Chris Horswill, showing how to change the pollen/cabin filter in an Octavia III, which involves removing the glovebox. Similar to the one by Rick Oz but more detailed, better filmed - and doesn't involve removing or using a screwdriver via the side panel. Less fiddly for what is, as has been acknowledged, a ridiculously fiddly job.

 

This should be the one:

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Plantman said:

 

 

This should be the one:

 

 

 

 

 

Very informative, wish I'd seen it before hard wiring the dashcam....

Everytime I so much as looked at the damper it would fall out of the glovebox, in the end I put a long strip of electrical tape across the damper and glovebox to hold it in place whilst clipping the hook on, then pulled the tape off 

 

The damper design must have been done by the same guy who came up with the seat bolts on the Triumph ST1050 - even Triumph mechanics can't get those in