Some advice please. I decided in my infinte wisdom after reasing a few threads on here to try to replace my boot lid interior lights on my mk 2 superb combi with some brighter led bulbs found on ebay (no flicker, no canbus faults etc.) 10 bulbs arrived and first of decided to swap all four lights on the underside of the doors. Swap went perfectly, easy to.swap, no dash lights. Not.much brighter but very white and clean looking. Decided to leave all the footwell lights as disnt want crisper brighter lights in the car as I think the footwells look ok with a warmer more subtle light.

Next the interior boot. Got the light fitting out no issue and disconnected from the cable. Removed the metal case no issue. Fitted the bulb no issue and refitted the light. It didnt work and then noticed the other one was now off. I refitted the original bulb but now both are still not working. 

Then noticed that I had no working rear wiper and presumably the light sensor had and issue as the headliggts had come on in bright daylight.

I checked all the fuses although the fuse map in both the manual.and underside of tge lid appear reversed and very hard to follow. Found no fuses blown but rear wiper and auto lights now ok. 

Tonight I drove the car to find no lights at all in....

Boot lid ( removable torch light ok)
Interior lights and reading lights- front and rear
Footwell front and rear
Glove box
Centre console
Vanity lights behind both sun visors

Illumination for drivers memory seat controls.

 

I fear I may have shorted/blown something. Any suggestions. Tommorow I intend to swap all the lights in the bottoms of the doors back to the original bulbs but thinking that this didnt cause the issues as botg the interior boot lights were ok when I went to swap the which was after all the door lights had been done.

Should have known better and left a sorted fully working car well alone. 

Any advice greatly appreciated. 

 

 

Apologies for all the typos in my post...managed to post it by accident as I was going back through it to check for spelling etc. ..

remove the led bulbs from the boot lid, leave them out.

lock the car and wait some time ( others may be able to say how long the can bus takes to release a short circuit fault)

30 mins should be ample.

 

open the car and see if everything else has come back to life.

If so the new bulb was causing a short on the contacts and you may also have a shorted diode in the bulb housing.

I posted a thread on how to check / replace this some years back.

 

19 minutes ago, superbdreams said:

remove the led bulbs from the boot lid, leave them out.

lock the car and wait some time ( others may be able to say how long the can bus takes to release a short circuit fault)

30 mins should be ample.

 

open the car and see if everything else has come back to life.

If so the new bulb was causing a short on the contacts and you may also have a shorted diode in the bulb housing.

I posted a thread on how to check / replace this some years back.

 

Thanks Superdreams,

 

I am relieved to say all now sorted. I had checked what I thought was fuse 15 (central lights) and it was ok. On going back through the fuses in the daylight I realised that the image is mirrored compared to that on the fusecover and so I had checked the wrong fuse. Fuse 15 had blown and all is now back up and running once I changed the correct fuse (doh).

 

Thanks for your help anyway. 

Loving my Superb mk 2 combi....it is the car thats keeps on giving. Bought as a family run about and I am so impressed. My main car is a Porsche 911 c4s and my wife has just had a new TRoc R. Both beautiful cars but I have to admit that the 52 plate Skoda with 75000 mls on the clock has become the weapon of choice for most  occaisions. I think I am really way more excited than I should be about my Skoda.🤣