Hi all, before I start please accept my apologies in advance - I am not very knowledgeable when it come to cars! 

 

I have a 65 plate skoda fabia and while I was driving my daughter to school after a night shift last Thursday I would down my electric passenver side window to clear condensation. 

 

The window went all the way down but wouldn't come back up. It won't budge. 

 

My brother used to fit car windows and had a look at it for me.

 

Thw button seems to be working, you can hear it clicking when it's pressed. He said the regulator was in order and thought there must have been a fault with the motor. 

 

The motor only seems to be available from the main dealer for £156 so I ordered one from a breaker and was assured that it is in perfect working condition. 

 

I drove the car on Sunday briefly and had a warning message of ERROR: AIRBAG come up on the dash along with the orange/yellow airbag symbol. 

 

That error still comes on. 

 

The motor part arrived today but it has not resolved the problem. 

 

When you pull the window switch you can hear it clicking but the motor just will not spin. 

 

Have checked a few fuses which seem OK but I'm assuming that if a fuse had blown the switch wouldn't be getting any power either.

 

I tried disabling the passenger side airbag to see if the airbag error went away but it didn't. 

 

I'm starting to think now that there may be some general wiring problem, affecting the motor and the airbag, but then again, would the electric window switch be receiving power if that was the case? 

 

My head is blown! Any advice or ideas greatly received. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

 

Kris

My thoughts are with your daughter, she completes a night shift then has to go to school, what kind of upbringing is this!

When you removed the fuses, if maybe removed the airbag fuse for a moment. You will have to have the error reset with VCDS software. Look in the VCDS forum on Briskoda to see if there is anyone near you who can offer help.

 

Sounds like your window is mechanically held by something - suggestions are a guide rail or a broken drive pin in the glass. The latter is a brown and yellow contrentric plastic pin in a hole in the glass and the drive arm. Your brother should be familiar with the arrangement.

 

On 18/03/2020 at 00:52, jonboy77 said:

My thoughts are with your daughter, she completes a night shift then has to go to school, what kind of upbringing is this!

 

I'd think that you need to re-read that opening post as I read it as the OP, after completing a night shift, drove the daughter to school, no child slave labour here.

 

I've got no good ideas for fixing the car though.

Kris, I thought I was answering a post on the Octavia 11 forum but it is likely to be similar on the Fabia.