Hi,

For the ongoing saga, it seems that we've found the root cause. The car had a new battery on last week and had been fine until Saturday when the boot was opened for the first time since the battery was replaced and lights came up on the dash again.

I took the rubber boot off and saw a few wires were broken then undid some of the friction tape and saw that some more were! I think the brown wire, light blue/red, black/red and a couple of others. At this point, the engine would not turn off again, car would not lock etc, just as it had originally.I had to cut the boot to get access to the wiring & soldered the brown wire first and that seemed to help a great deal with engine start/stop. I then soldered the remaining wires and all seemed to be back to normal.

The problem is now that the boot is cut in half, lengthways, and I suspect rain can ingress into the roof space. I'll try to glue the boot but I think it needs a new wiring harness anyway as I don't trust the soldered wires as they were cracked in other places and won't withstand many more open/close cycles.

I believe there's a connector in the rear pillar or thereabouts for this boot hatch section?

Does anyone have a guide for replacing this section of harness, an idea of how much of a pig it is to do/special tools required and part numbers for the rubber boot and wiring harness? I'll need to get onto the Skoda dealer to order the bits.

Thanks in advance.

Edited 19 May, 20251 yr by briscaF1
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Does anyone know how to remove these semi-transparent inserts without breaking them?

I spent some time last night trying to get them out, complete, without success.