I thought it was about time for a little change, so I have spent the last few weeks plugging away at a new design for the blog. I really just wanted to move away from the very dark theme and create a white background, with three columns and a blue header. I’m not a designer, but I’m quite happy with the way things have turned out. I have also added in Gravatars for comments to make it a little more social friendly.
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.]
It’s been a bit of an odd year. As usual there have been ups and downs, and a few sideways movements. So I thought I would do my yearly blog post to round things off.
However, I’m not sure what else to say really.
Maybe I’ll think of something in the new year.
If anyone is reading this, then I wish you a happy and properous new year. By prosperous I mean both financially and in terms of happiness.
I always wait for a week before applying any major upgrades to my main site because they sometimes introduce more problems than they solve. The only problem I have heard about is an issue with speed, but I haven’t seen any slowdown when testing that my social media page plugin worked.
So I though I would update the blog via the QuickPress. As a little test.
Last year I wrote about BT taking me for a ride, where they plain and simply failed.
Well yesterday Mandy got home and noticed two BT engineers at the top of the telegraph pole outside our house. After going inside they came to the house and said (and I’m not kidding here)
"Are you having a phone line installed?"
You would have thought they would know! Anyway, after Mandy explained that we had already got a phone line installed, and that we certainly didn’t want another one, they insisted that it was our house. Mandy, standing her ground, said that we had one installed a year ago and certainly didn’t want another as that had cost £125 and has probably gone up by now. So they went back to their van, got a bunch of bits of paper together and went into the following conversation with each other.
BT Guy 1 "what number was it again?"
BT Guy 2 (Sifting papers) "where is the sheet with the number on it?"
BT Guy 1 "It’s that sheet there."
BT Guy 2 (Pauses) "Which one?"
BT Guy 1 (Points) "That one."
BT Guy 2 (Sifts papers about) "This one?"
BT Guy 1 (Points) "No, the bottom of that one."
BT Guy 2 (Picks up paper) "Oh…"
BT Guy 1 (Look at paper) "Oh, maybe it’s not this bit…"
This went on for about 5 minutes until they came to the blinding conclusion that it wasn’t our house they wanted, but one down the street!
Is it just coincidence that BT come to our house and try to install a phone line about a year to the day that they did it in the first place? Probably, but it is just another fiasco in a long running multitude of fiascos. Sort yourselves out BT!
