Car used in this guide: MY2021 Skoda Kamiq Monte Carlo with automatic climate control.

 

Model applicable: Kamiq/Scala 2019-onwards

 

Time: 30-60 minutes depending on experience.

 

Parts required:

• Cooled Glovebox Pipe (Air pipe) #5E0816311. (Picture 1A)
• Cooled Glovebox Valve #5E0816355. (Picture 1B)

 

Tools required:

• Screw driver with an M4 bit.
• Flat head screwdriver or plastic rivet removal tool.

 

Steps:

Removing the glovebox:

1. Remove side dash panel cover

2. Remove plastic rivet x2 (picture 2 item 2)

3. Remove screws x2 (picture 2 item 3)

4. Open glove box.

5. Detach the glove compartment from the dash panel (picture 5).

• Release two tabs, the glove compartment will fall out.
• NOTE: the “brake element” will likely fall out, be sure to keep an eye out for the inner cog (picture 4 item 1).

6. Remove screws x3 (picture 3, item 1)

7. Detach the plug from the glove compartment light.

• Pinch and remove.

8. Disconnect other plugs, if applicable (depending upon vehicle equipment [e.g. foot well light and brake element/light switch]).

9. Remove glove compartment from vehicle.

 

Installing the hose:

1. Remove the capped off of the air conditioning outlet. Unfortunately, this is not easily found or photographed. In a right hand drive vehicle, this is best located by placing you hand between the thin foam insulation in the footwell feeling for some metal pipes near the centre console, (WARNING: if you have used the heating recently these will be warm to hot) near those pipes will be a rubber cap facing outwards towards the passenger door (picture 5), pull it off.
2. Before feeding the pipe down, spray a small amount of white lithium grease (or similar), it will help to attach the hose. Feed the air pipe down behind the left side, in the gap just above the cabin filter. (Picture 6).
3. Install the cooled glovebox valve into the top of the glovebox by pressing the valve up and into the gap, not from above.
4. Attach the air hose to the cooled glovebox valve (picture 7) and reassemble (following the glovebox removal instructions in reverse order).

 

Notes:

• If you loose any of the glovebox screws, the part number is #N90698606.
• If you break the plastic rivet, the part number is #4B0863907A
• This may work on models with manual climate control, but it hasn’t been tested.

 

I am not responsible for any damage done to your vehicle as this guide is for educational purposes. Be away that Skoda will make changes from model year to model year and that the vehicle tested may differ from your.

 

Photo Credit - Pictures 2-6 from the Offical Skoda Kamiq Workshop Manual - General body repairs, interior

Note picture 1A and 1B are the last two images.

Your guide is... COOL!  Thank you!

You're welcome. Very punny!

How do you remove the side dash panel?from step 1,i tried pulling it towards the outside,it flexes but wont come out.

On 23/10/2021 at 02:44, Nahkri said:

How do you remove the side dash panel?from step 1,i tried pulling it towards the outside,it flexes but wont come out.

From recollection there it should just pull out. But it could also have plastic rivets. It should become apparent once the glovebox is removed.

Does anyone have more tips on how to remove that side dash panel? I've tried to pull it off with upholstery removal tools but it was just bending and making cracking noises. So do I just rip it off by force or there is something I have to unlock, pinch etc.? Thanks. 

On 02/02/2023 at 17:25, XTad said:

Does anyone have more tips on how to remove that side dash panel? I've tried to pull it off with upholstery removal tools but it was just bending and making cracking noises. So do I just rip it off by force or there is something I have to unlock, pinch etc.? Thanks. 

Here some pictures. It's only clips.

On 03/02/2023 at 03:25, XTad said:

Does anyone have more tips on how to remove that side dash panel? I've tried to pull it off with upholstery removal tools but it was just bending and making cracking noises. So do I just rip it off by force or there is something I have to unlock, pinch etc.? Thanks. 

I can't remember what I did specifically for this. But I do remember it being a real pain in the proverbial.

@skylex95 @XTad @aaaaplay sorry to come back to this a few months later.

 

That side panel, can I just confirm 100% that while it sits underneath the seal, it sits on top of the sill trim and the pillar trim? I.E. like in these photos.

 

Thanks guys  

 

 

 

Edited 29 May, 20242 yr by hawkx617