Hi, I have bought a mk3 skoda octavia and the rear window switch was faulty. So, I removed the old switch with the surrounding. I have bought a new one, but i am having difficulties in fitting it on now onto the door card. It seems like a really tight fit, and i just cannot get the surrounding of the switch to clip into the door card. Does anyone know how to fit one of these? Or has anyone done it before? Its the passengers side rear one which i am trying to do.

Thanks

You've got to clip it in at an angle and it will break one of the tabs on the under side of the surround if I recall correctly. It's unavoidable due to the way it goes in. Still remains nice and tight though.

On 13/03/2019 at 19:17, mk2octavia said:

Hi, I have bought a mk3 skoda octavia and the rear window switch was faulty. So, I removed the old switch with the surrounding. I have bought a new one, but i am having difficulties in fitting it on now onto the door card. It seems like a really tight fit, and i just cannot get the surrounding of the switch to clip into the door card. Does anyone know how to fit one of these? Or has anyone done it before? Its the passengers side rear one which i am trying to do.

Thanks

You need to take the door card off to do it correctly without any chance of breaking it. The switch has a surround which is also removable but will snap if you take it off without removing the door card. The switch sits inside the surround and has three clips which are accessible from the inside only. DONT force it or as mentioned it will snap. taking the door card off is easy. Ill take some pictures tonight

Edited 15 March, 20197 yr by JohnnyType2

20 minutes ago, JohnnyType2 said:

You need to take the door card off to do it correctly without any chance of breaking it. The switch has a surround which is also removable but will snap if you take it off without removing the door card. The switch sits inside the surround and has three clips which are accessible from the inside only. DONT force it or as mentioned it will snap. taking the door card off is easy. Ill take some pictures tonight

 

There seems to be a torx screw on the door card behind the door handle cover. But if the switch is in the door card, would i still be able to tighten that screw. Because i have been told that if the switch is in the door card already, and when i fit the door card back onto the car, i would not be able to tighten that screw....

Thanks

23 hours ago, ahenners said:

You've got to clip it in at an angle and it will break one of the tabs on the under side of the surround if I recall correctly. It's unavoidable due to the way it goes in. Still remains nice and tight though.

 

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try and see how it goes

1 minute ago, mk2octavia said:

 

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try and see how it goes

 

From the above response by @JohnnyType2 it sounds like there may be a better way to do it which avoids the tab snapping, I'd probably do it now that way if possible.

yes the switch has to be removed before the torx is accessible to take the surround out, this should have stopped the easy removal of the surround, there are a few different ways to do it but the easiest ive found is to take the switch out of the back or the surround with the card off, just three clips using a plastic trim tool. If you have the surround out you may need to remove the door card to refit the whole unit, surround and switch

Edited 15 March, 20197 yr by JohnnyType2

10 hours ago, JohnnyType2 said:

yes the switch has to be removed before the torx is accessible to take the surround out, this should have stopped the easy removal of the surround, there are a few different ways to do it but the easiest ive found is to take the switch out of the back or the surround with the card off, just three clips using a plastic trim tool. If you have the surround out you may need to remove the door card to refit the whole unit, surround and switch

 

Oh right i see what you mean now. Thanks for that. I'm going to give it a go on the weekend when i have some time to spare. Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated! 

You have to remove the switch to get at the torx if you want to remove the door card so i got that back to front sorry, its been a while since i took it off.

 

 

the torx for the door card removal is here...

 

red arrows are the clips for the surround which i found really tricky to remove without damaging them.... and green are the clips for the switch itself which just required a flat trim tool to pop out...

7 hours ago, JohnnyType2 said:

You have to remove the switch to get at the torx if you want to remove the door card so i got that back to front sorry, its been a while since i took it off.

 

 

the torx for the door card removal is here...

 

red arrows are the clips for the surround which i found really tricky to remove without damaging them.... and green are the clips for the switch itself which just required a flat trim tool to pop out...

 

Thanks for that! Thats a really big help. I'm gonna do it tomorrow afternoon and I'll update you on how it goes.

So today I fitted my window switch. I took my door card off and did it according to the pictures. It was a fiddly job, but i got there in the end. I did manage to scratch the door card a bit, and one of the clips for the surround cracked. But its all fitted now and the switch is working. Once again, Thank you for the help and the pictures. I really do appreciate it!