Hi all

My car is a skoda fabia mk3 2015 1.2 TSI Monte Carlo

I have a problem with my light swticher which is located on the bottom right of the dash next to the key ignition. When turning my side lights on or dipped beam lights it lights up green but very faintly and flashes 3 times. Whilst this is flashing, I hear a buzzing noise coming from behind the gloves box and after 3 times of flashing, it stays off. Can anyone help me on how o should fix this? Is this a faulty switch or an electrical problem? You can see in the photos of how it should be and what it is now ( the first photo it how it should be lit up without the auto light )

Edited 29 March, 20251 yr by yousefh
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Have you got the ignition on or the engine running?

Have you read your car's Owner's Manual?

Have you got any aftermarket things fitted on the car (alarms, wotever)?

Did you sort out the other issues on the car (I forget what they were)?

If you don't have the paper printed copy of the Owner's Manual for your car then you can get a free VWŠKoda download of a pdf from the following VWŠkoda site. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

HTH.

On 30/03/2025 at 17:40, nta16 said:

Have you got the ignition on or the engine running?

Have you read your car's Owner's Manual?

Have you got any aftermarket things fitted on the car (alarms, wotever)?

Did you sort out the other issues on the car (I forget what they were)?

If you don't have the paper printed copy of the Owner's Manual for your car then you can get a free VWŠKoda download of a pdf from the following VWŠkoda site. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

HTH.

Hi

Yes the ignition is on and engine is running. I'm wondering if there is a fuse for it because I've also seen that the lights up the window switches are not illuminated either.

I havent got any aftermarket things fitting to the car.

I will tske a look at the manual as the car didn't come with one.

And yes I got the window sorted which ended up being a window switch. And the buttons on the steering wheel as well. Turned out that the car had been in an accident but not recorded. When drivers airbag was deployed, whoever repaired it put a normal airbag harness inside instead of a mfsw harness. I bought a mfsw harness off Ebay, fitted it and it's all working now.

I will check the Manual if not I will havw to do some digging around.

Thanks for your help

Great you got it sorted, well done.

Download the relevant copy of the Owner's Manual and if you read it and refer to it then you could save yourself time hassle and money from unnecessary visits to Dealership / garage / mechanic /auto-electricians.

Your light switch is different to the one in my wife's 2015 Fabia that might be different trim levels or added in extras or yours being an earlier build (though I think my wife's was built in the April or parts from then anyway) though registered end of September 2015.

Buzzing around glovebox might be a relay perhaps, and my first thought of issue was that it might be the switch itself but then there's the connection and wires to it and elsewhere and now you know there's an unrecorded/unreported accident repair you can included that in your thoughts. Not that it matters too much as any car unknown to you could have all sorts of history behind it.

You give a good example why these checks on the car's history mean and reveal only so much, and some miss a lot, and why they should not be rely on too much, same as a fresh or current MoT that many seem to think means the car is sound, you buy on the current condition of the car when you have inspected it or paid someone else to do so and scrutinise, check and cross reference any history presented.

I had to look up mfsw, for me and others (though I'll forget) it means multifunction steering wheel.

On a car of this age new to me after brakes (and tyres cover brakes, steering and suspension) the first item I check is the battery, particularly important to a modern VW with start/stop, make sure it is fully recharged and in good health with clean secure connections (same for main earths) then I check or carry out a full service to the age or mileage of the car. I find prevention is better than cure. The service check and works I will stagger with use of the car to get used to the car and see what needs sorting and when and how the car drives and how I can drive it and get used to the controls and where they are and what on the car I want to use or not.

These aren't bad cars by any means but some of the VW parts quality and durability have been very low on my wife's car but I haven't believed the German engineering quality nonsense on their cars since the start of this century, and a but before that for Mercs.

Good luck, and remember prevention is better than cure for most things on cars.