2008 SKODA FABIA wiper blades

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Using the systemSafetyDriving TipsGeneral MaintenanceBreakdown assistanceTechnical Data
The windscreen wipers and the windscreen washer system only operate if the igni-tion 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 193.
WARNING
•Properly maintained windscreen wiper blades are essential for clear visi-bility and safe driving ⇒page 53.
•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 172 and then operate the windscreen wiper otherwise the wind-screen 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 windscreen 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 52, fig. 45 for about 1 second.
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 172, “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 essential 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 blades could then be due to wax residues left on the windscreen by vehicle washing in automatic vehicle wash systems. It is
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Fig. 46 Wiper blade for the windscreen wiper
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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.
Replacing the wiper blade on the rear window wiper
Taking off the wiper blade
– Fold windscreen wiper arm out from the windscreen and position the
wiper blade at right angles to the wiper arm ⇒fig. 47.
– Hold the window wiper arm at the top end with one hand.
– With the other hand unlock the locking button in the direction of
arrow and remove the wiper blade.
Attaching a wiper blade
– Position the wiper blade onto the wiper arm and lock the locking
button .
– Check whether the wiper blade is correctly attached.
The same remarks apply here as for ⇒page 53.
Rear mirror
You can adjust the exterior mirrors electrically*.
Adjust the rear mirror before commencing to drive so that there is a clear
view to the rear.
Dimming the interior mirror
– Pull the lever on the bottom edge of the mirror toward rear (the lever
on the interior mirror must point forwards in it home position).
Heating of the external mirror*
– Turn the rotary knob to position  ⇒fig. 48.
Fig. 47 Wiper blade for rear window
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Fig. 48 Inner part of door: Rotary knob
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Index247
Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Rear fog light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Rear mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Rear seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Rear window heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Recharge battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Recirculated air mode
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Synchronisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Replacing bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Roof aerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Running in the car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
S
Safe securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Safety information
Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Saving electrical energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Seat belt height adjuster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Seat belt warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
fastening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
taking off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selector lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Service Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Service Interval Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Setting temperature
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Side airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Stability programme (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Diesel engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Petrol engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Steering force assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Storage compartment
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Storage compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Storage facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Switch in the driver door
Power windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Switching lights on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Switching off the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
T
Tailgate
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Taking care of your vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Temperature
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
the first 1 500 kilometres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
The roof luggage rack system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Thickness of brake pads
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tilting roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Towing a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Towing eye
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Towing protection monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
towing vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Tow-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Tow-starting and towing vehicle
Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Traction control system (TCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
General Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Transporting children safely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
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Turn signal light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Turn signal lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Turn signal system for vehicles towing a trailer
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Two-way radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Tyre inflation pressure
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tyre repair kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Tyres
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
U
Underbody protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Unidirectional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
V
Vanity mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Vehicle tool kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
W
Warning lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Warning symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Warning triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Washing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
with a high-pressure cleaner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Washing the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Washing vehicle by hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Wax treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Wheel
Changing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Wheel bolts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
slackening and tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Wheel bolts lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Wheel trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194, 204
Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Windows
de-icing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Windscreen washer nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Windscreen Wiper and Washer System
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Windshield washer fluid reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Windshield washer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Windshield wiper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Wiper blades
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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