2006 SKODA FABIA wiper blades

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Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistanceTechnical Data
Slow wipe
– Position the lever up into position .
Fa st w i p e
– Position the lever up into position .
Automatic wipe/wash for windscreen
– Pull the lever towards the steering wheel into position and the
widescreen wiper and wash system will operate - in the sprung
position.
– Release the lever. The windscreen wash system stops and the
wiper continues for another 1 - 3 wiper strokes (depending on the
period of spraying of the windscreen).
Wiping the rear window pane*
– Push the lever away from the steering wheel into position
⇒ page 64, fig. 45, the widescreen wiper will operate every 6
seconds.
Automatic wipe/wash for the rear window pane*
– Push the lever away from the steering wheel into position - the
widescreen wiper and wash system will operate - in the sprung
position.
– Letting go of the leve r will cause the windscreen wash system to
stop and the wiper to continue for another 1 - 3 wiper strokes
(depending on the period of spraying of the windscreen). The
lever will stay in position after releasing it .
Switching windscreen wipers off
– Move the lever back into its home position .
The windscreen wipers and the windscreen washer system only operate if the ignition is switched on.
The rear window will be wiped again if the front window wipers are on when reverse gear is selected.
The windscreen washer nozzles are heated* when the ignition is switched on.
Top up with wash liquid ⇒page 211.
WARNING
•Properly maintained windscreen wiper blades are essential for clear visibility and safe driving ⇒page 66.
•Do not use the windscreen washer system at low temperatures, without heating the windscreen beforehand. Otherwise the window cleaner could freeze on the windscreen and restrict the view to the front.
•In the event of a freezing up of the windscreen, first of all eliminate the ice ⇒page 188 and then operate the windscreen wiper otherwise the windscreen wiper blades could be damaged.
Caution
In frosty weather, please first of all check whether the windscreen wiper blades are not frozen to the windscreen before switching them on. Switching on wind- screen wipers when the blades are frozen to the windscreen may result in damage both to the blades and the motor of the windscreen wipers!
Headlight cleaning system*
The headlights are being cleaned after the windscreen washer system has been operated for the fifth time, the low beam or main beam are switched on as well as the windscreen wiper lever is held in the position ⇒page 64, fig. 45 for about 1 second.
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You should remove stubborn dirt (such as insect residues) from the headlight lenses at regular intervals, for example when refuelling. Please refer to the following guidelines ⇒page 189, “The headlight lenses”.
You should remove any snow from the fixtures of the washer nozzles and clear ice in winter with a de-icing spray in order to ensure proper operation of the cleaning system.
Replacing wiper blades for the windscreen wipers
Taking off the wiper blade
– Fold windscreen wiper arm away from the windscreen.
– Press the locking button, in order to unlock the wiper blade and
pull off in the direction of arrow.
Attaching a wiper blade
– Push the wiper blade until it locks up to the stop.
– Check whether the wiper blade is correctly attached.
– Fold the windscreen wiper arm back onto the windscreen.
Wiper blades in proper condition are esse ntial to obtain good visibility. Wiper blades should not be allowed to become dirtied by dust, insect remains and preserving wax.
Juddering or smearing of the wiper blad es could then be due to wax residues left on the windscreen by vehicle washing in automatic vehicle wash systems. It is therefore important to degrease the lips of the wiper blades after every pass through an automatic vehicle wash system.
WARNING
•If the windscreen wipers are handled carelessly, there is a risk of damage to the windscreen.
•You should clean the wiper blades regularly with a windscreen cleaner in order to avoid any smears . Clean a wiper blade with a sponge or cloth if it is very dirty, for example from insect residues.
•Replace the wiper blades once or twice a year for safety reasons. The wiper blades are available from Škoda Service Partners.
Fig. 46 Wiper blade for the windscreen wiper
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Index253
R
Radiator fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Radio
Operating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Raise vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Rear mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Rear window heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Recharge battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Recirculated air mode
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Synchronisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Replacing bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Roof aerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Running in the car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
S
Safe securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Safety information
Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Saving electrical energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Seat belt height adjuster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Seat belt warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
fastening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
taking off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Selector lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Service Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Service Interval Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Setting temperature
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Side airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Stability programme (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Diesel engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Petrol engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Steering force assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Storage compartment
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Storage compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Storage facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Switch in the driver door
Power windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching lights on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switching off the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
T
Tailgate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Taking care of your vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Temperature
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
the first 1 500 kilometres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
The roof luggage rack system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Thickness of brake pads
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Tilting roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
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Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Towing a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Towing eye
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Towing protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
towing vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Tow-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Tow-starting and towing vehicle
Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Traction control system (TCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
General Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Transporting children safely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Turn signal light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Turn signal lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Turn signal system for ve hicles towing a trailer
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Two-way radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Type plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Tyre inflation pressure
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Tyre repair kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Tyres
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
U
Underbody protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Unidirectional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
V
Vanity mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Vehicle data sticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Vehicle identification data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Vehicle tool kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
W
W ashing vehicle by hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Warning symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Warning triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Washing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
with a high-pressure cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Washing the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Wax treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Wheel
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
slackening and tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Wheel bolts lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Wheel trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213, 225
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Windows
de-icing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Windscreen washer nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Windscreen Wiper and Washer System
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Windshield washer fluid reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Windshield washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Windshield wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Wiper blades
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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