I bought a workshop manual (Skoda_Octavia_II_Workshop_Manual_2004_to_2013) (pdf files) for my elderly Octavia. £14 for, apparently the full works, and I've already had my money's worth in entertainment.

 

But I am having trouble linking between circuit diagram pages. I am trying to chase the rear wiper circuit back through the pages to the stalk but I don't know what to search for to see where a wire goes to. There are numbers in square boxes but a search for the number gives too many hits to deal with. 

 

On a page, it's pretty obvious what's what so I'm sure they is a way of working that will give me the info I need. Should I find a page of explanation?

 

 

Cheers

 

See if the attached helps.

The rectangular boxes point you to the 'current path' number where the wire continues. These 'current path' numbers are the ones along the bottom of each page.

CFD explanations.pdf

Thanks @Breezy_Pete it begins to make some sense now. I imagine that service engineers need to go on a course to get this stuff right so I'm limping through it all.

Another guide for you to absorb, was a bit busy and only just posted.

 

Hope it helps, and plenty of forum folks will assist with questions on wiring diagrams.

@varooom Thanks to you too. 

When you look inside a car, it's basically reverse Engineering, always because there are very few sources of "This the basic way this system works . . . . . ." and that makes it hard to get a hold on what's what.

 

The occasional brief comment on a forum can be really helpful - like when I read that there's actually no relay on my rear wiper motor and that it's off when the lid is raised. A chap could do a lot of chasing to find out that all for himself, trying to fault find.