Mystery resolved wino  lol my no 9 fuse was in wrong slot should have been in the no 8 as you said I suddenly looked again and noticed the wire into 8 dohhhhhh thanks mate all sorted now low speed coming on thanks all and always for the advice 👍👍👍

Awesome 

I'm just imagining this mega independant Skoda garage run by the contributors to this thread (except me). I would be a customer!😀

Thanks chaps, my other half overheated up in London yesterday evening and on the phone I worked out there was no fan running. She got home okay after the traffic cleared and she could do 30mph unimpeded. I had a look after work today and found the link fuse above the battery had continuity but a very faint looking crack, removed the nut and it fell apart, quick swap with the adjacent spare and job's done😎👌

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@colinstubbs that strip fuse is only used for the full speed of the fan(s), which I would really not expect to be invoked in the UK recently, so I would say that there is another as yet undiscovered fault relating to the low speed fan function. (Fed by one of the blade fuses - a 30 Amp one - in the adjacent covered section of same fuse tray.)

 

There is a common fault with loss of low speed function, associated with an internal wirewound resistor, but check the blade fuse first.

It's my bedtime now, more tomorrow. 

1 hour ago, colinstubbs said:

my other half overheated up in London yesterday evening...........quick swap with the adjacent spare and job's done

 

Menopause?

 

Very forgiving of her if she knew you had a spare lined up! 😄

I wonder if there's even a thermostat or water pump problem too. Not sure I'd expect overheating in London at this time of year even without working fan.