I was driving home yesterday when something odd happened with the Windscreen wipers on my Fabia. I tried to use my front windscreen washer and my back windscreen wiper moved. I soon found out that moving the wiper control up and down did nothing and trying to use the back wipers did nothing either.
After some research on the internet (Google is my best friend) I found that this was due to blowing a fuse. This happens when you try to use your windscreen washer when it is frozen. If this happens to you then don’t worry, you can just swap the fuse and you will be fine.
Skoda Fabia Fuse Panel
Skoda Fabia Fuse Panel Ledgend
The fuse box on the Fabia is located behind the driver side door on the main dashboard panel, next to the stearing wheel. To open it just find the little notch in the bottom half, pop your key in there and twist it. The whole thing should come off, but it is a little tricky.
To get things working again just replace fuse 21 with a 10 amp fuse. If you don’t have a fuse handy you can swap the broken one (make sure it is broken) with fuse 32, which controls the back windscreen wiper. This will mean that you can drive to your local fuse shop and pick up a fuse even if it is raining.
To get the fuse panel cover back on just put in the panel by lining up the three hooks on the straight edge and push it towards the front of the car. Once you have it nearly in place you can either hit it in with your fist or just close the door on it.
To stop this fuse blowing you need to make sure that your washer fluid is not frozen before you use it. You can always increase the concentration of the fluid to prevent this from hapening during the winter.
[Update: Images taken from Fuse Panel Layout fabia-vrs.com. If you have any Fabia problems then take a look, it's a good site with lots of information.]
Ref: My girlfriend’s ’06 Vrs.
Top bloke!!!!! Local garage quoted £70 in total,changed stalk (These costs £26) and problem continued, didn’t charge me a bean thou (V friendly these garages in the Black Country)! I’d already done the “Fuse 41″ and gave in, found other local independant “expert” who said its defo the arm (even thou i’d said it had been tried) or “it’ll be the motor then chief”! Goggled this sat, sorted in 5 mins! Took me 4 different car spares places on sunday thou to find flat 10 amp fuses thou, all sold out! The garage i’d booked for this monday was none too happy when I rang to cancel my slot, explained how the problem was resolved & even offered to drop him a copy off but he hung up on me(NOT All garages are v friendly in the black country) & to top it off, my better half paid for the saturday night balti! Phil your a star & I owe you a few beers next time your in the black country! Many thanks chap!
Ps Fuse 15!
I just needed to know where the fuse box was
Blinding Cheers
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help. The intermittent wipers on my Skoda Fabia VRS are not working – all other wiper settings are working fine. I have checked all the fuses and they seem fine – any ideas?
Thanky you for this information, its nice to know that there are people out there who would like to help others when they come across a problem. I hope you carry on giving little bits of useful information to others.
Well this website has just made my evening!
Fuse 15 was the ticket for me.
Philip Norton; I salute you
just thought i’d say thanks for the info like everyone else…
just got the wife a yellow fabia as her first car & she had phoned me earlier to say the wipers had stopped working!
ARGH, but just swopped fuse 32 for 15 & she has wipers again.
cheers
The other evening the wife rolls in from work, the wipers have packed up.first thing i thought of was fuse,but do you think i could find the fuse box (no)my daughter put me to shame by locating your helpful fix by googling the problem so now all is well, many thanks.
I read through your post (and a couple of older ones two) and your blogs been a great find – ive noted your rss so expect me back in the near future – thanks