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Driving Tips
General Maintenance
Breakdown assistance
Technical Data
– Guide your hand into the opening in wh
ich the grille was located and press the
spring bolt
page 202, fig. 171
- right.
– Take out the fog light.– Turn the socket with the bulb for daylight driving light or the socket with the
bulb of the fog light to the left up to stop and take it out.
– Replace the lamp, insert the connector with
the new lamp and turn to the right up
to the stop.
– For the installation, first of all insert the
fog light with the interlock to the side far
away from the marking of the vehicle.
– Press into place the headlight onto the side facing the marking.– First of all put the grille with the latch
in place on the side opposite the marking.
– Press into place the protective grille onto the side facing the marking.Cover of fog lights - Fabia Scout, Fabia RSFig. 172 Front bumper: Fabia Scout / Fabia RSRemoving the cover - Fabia Scout– Switch the ignition and all lights off.– Guide the wire clamp from the vehicle tool
kit into the opening above the fog light
fig. 172
- left and remove the cover.
Removing the cover - Fabia RS– Switch the ignition and all lights off. – Guide one finger into the opening next to the fog light
fig. 172
- right and
remove the cover.
– In order to reinstall the cover, first of all insert one part of the cover starting on the
side opposite the marking. Then press th
e cover closed on the side facing the
marking.
Fog lights Fabia Scout, Fabia RSFig. 173 Front bumper: Fog
lights / changing the bulb
Removing the fog light–Screw out the screws
fig. 173
- left with the aid of the screwdriver*, which is part
of the vehicle tool kit
16).
– Take out the fog light.Changing the bulb and installing the fog light– Press the locking button
fig. 173
of the plug and remove the plug from
the socket .
– Turn the socket with the bulb to the left up to the stop and take it out.– Change the bulb, insert again the socket wi
th the new bulb and turn it to the right
up to the stop.
AA
AB
16)Valid for Fabia Scout and Fabia RS.
A1
AA
AB
AB
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– Connect the plug to the socket . – Screw in the screws again and insert the cover. The cover must engage firmly.Licence plate light– Open the boot lid and unscrew the light glass
fig. 174
.
– Take the defective bulb out of the holder and insert a new one.– Insert the glass cover of the light again and
press it down to the stop - ensure that
the sealing rubber is
correctly seated.
– Screw on the light glass slightly.Rear light unitFig. 175 Remove the rear light unit / install the rear light unit
– Open the boot lid.– Hold tight the rear light unit with one hand and unscrew the plastic nut with the
other hand
fig. 175
- left.
– Grip the rear light unit and remove it carefully with loosening movements at an
angle to the rear. Do not pull the gro
mmet with the cables out of the body.
– Replace the defective light bulb
page 204.
– When re-installing, first insert the rear light unit with the screw into the opening
of the body
fig. 175
.
– Carefully press the rear light unit into
the body in such a way that the pins
engage into the supports of the body.
– Hold the rear light unit tight with one hand, screw on the nut with the other hand
and tighten it
fig. 175
.
Caution
When removing and installing the rear ligh
t unit make sure not to damage the paint-
work of the vehicle and the rear light unit.
Note
For slackening and tightening the plastic nut use a coin.Changing light bulbs in the rear light unit
AA
AB
Fig. 174 Remove the licence plate light
AA
AB
Fig. 176 Rear light un
it: Fitting position
of the bulbs
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Driving Tips
General Maintenance
Breakdown assistance
Technical Data
– To replace a light bulb, turn the bulb connector of the light bulb to the left (in the
direction of the arrows on the hous
ing) and take it out of the housing.
– Replace the light bulb, put the bulb connect
or back into the housing and turn it to
the right up to the stop (in the opposite
direction of the arrows on the housing).
Fitting position of the light
bulbs in the rear light unit
page 204, fig. 176
.
- Rear fog light / Reversing light - Turn signal lights - Brake lights - Parking lightsLuggage compartment light– Open the boot lid.– Insert a screwdriver into the slot below the light
fig. 177
. Lever out the light care-
fully.
– Disconnect the plug connector. – Replace the defective light bulb.– Recreate the plug connection.– Position the light first of all on the side
of the plug connection and then press it in
on the other side up to the stop.
A1A2A3A4
Fig. 177 Remove the luggage compart- ment light
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Index237
Using the system
Safety
Driving Tips
General Maintenance
Breakdown assistance
Technical Data Exterior mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Exterior mirror heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
FFastening elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
First-aid box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Fixing net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 202
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Fog lights with the function CORNER . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Foldable luggage compartment cover . . . . . . . . . . 66
Force limiter of the power windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Front airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Front armrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Front headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Diesel fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Fuel gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Petrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Fuel consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 146
Saving energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Fuel gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Fuel reserve
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Full wheel trim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Fuse
Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
GGearbox
mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
General view
Cockpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Glass roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Glow plug system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
GSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105HHalogen projector headlights with cornering light
function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Handbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Hazard warning light system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Head airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Head restraint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Headlight cleaning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Headlight flasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Headlights
Fog lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Headlight cleaning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Heated windscreen washer nozzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Heating the front seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9IIgnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Ignition lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Immobiliser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Information display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Instrument cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Interior light
Luggage compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Interior lighting
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Interior monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Intermittent wiping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ISOFIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
ISOFIX system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
JJacking points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Jump-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190, 191KKey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35LLashing eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Leather care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Lifting jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Lighting of the interior of the vehicle
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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Driving Tips
General Maintenance
Breakdown assistance
Technical Data Recommendation for changing gears . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Refuelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Synchronisation process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Replacing bulbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Replacing fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Replacing the wiper blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Roof aerial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Running in the car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
SSafe securing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Safety information
Engine compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Saving electrical energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Seat belt height adjuster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Seat belt warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
fastening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Height adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
taking off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Seats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Selector lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Selector lever positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Selector lever-emergency unlocking . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Service Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Service Interval Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Setting temperature
Air conditioning system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Heating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Shifting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Side airbag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Side lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Spare wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Speedometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Stability programme (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Diesel engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Petrol engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Start-stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Steering force assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Storage compartments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Storage facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Stowage compartment
Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Sun visors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Switching lights on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Switching off the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Systems
Start-stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
TTaking care of your vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
TCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Temperature
outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
the first 1 500 kilometres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
The roof luggage rack system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Tilting roof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Tiptronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Tourist light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Towing a trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Towing eye
front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
rear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Towing protection monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
towing vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Tow-starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Tow-starting and towing vehicle
Automatic gearbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Traction control system (TCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Trailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
General Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Transporting children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Turn signal light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Turn signal lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Two-way radio systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Tyre inflation pressure
Warning light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tyre pressure monitoring system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Tyre repair kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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