Gents / Ladies,

I have just taken delivery of my new Fabia 3 (1.9TDi Estate (Brunello Rosso) and need to fit a phone car kit and Tom Tom. On my previous Fabia Elegance the glovebox came out easily allowing access to the loom to spur off power for any auxhiliaries. However despite having removed the top glove box I cannot easily see how to get behind the radio to get at the harness.

Has anybody had any joy and could give me some useful pointers as the glove box light cable looks way too puny !

Many Thanks

Andy

Gents / Ladies,

I have just taken delivery of my new Fabia 3 (1.9TDi Estate (Brunello Rosso) and need to fit a phone car kit and Tom Tom. On my previous Fabia Elegance the glovebox came out easily allowing access to the loom to spur off power for any auxhiliaries. However despite having removed the top glove box I cannot easily see how to get behind the radio to get at the harness.

Has anybody had any joy and could give me some useful pointers as the glove box light cable looks way too puny !

Many Thanks

Andy

dont think anyone has done anywork on there cars like this mate :(

Here are the critical screws to remove the dash, but it is way too complicated.

I fitted a bluetooth handsfree, mobile phone charger, cd changer and tomtom charger to my old fabia 3, there is no need to remove the glove box.

I am assuming that you are using a nokia ck-7w handsfree because they are common and cheap (no offence intended). Also sorry about the lack of pictures, I recently sold my Fabia 3 in favour of an Octavia L&K, so dont have anything I could photograph.

removing the radio. Remove the trim around the radio, I used an old store card to prise it out, there are 4 clips top and bottom on the facia trim holding it in. I found it easiest to ease it out in the corners. Then remove the 4 torx bolts holding the stereo in, carefully remove the stereo unit and put it somewhere safe, there is a label on it that says 'scrap if dropped'!!

Then you can get the the quadlock connector to utilise the tele mute and audio input for the head unit, although you will need to get the green plug and some wires for the quadlock to make this work, the part numbers are on another post just use the search to find them.

Fitting the control box. In the passenger footwell put the back of your hands on the floor at the top of the footwell push your hands towards the engine and up behind the polystyrene sound blocker panel at the same time. There is a sort of clip in the middle of the firewall cover that stops it falling out. Push this in, then pull the polystyrene sheet down, like a door, hinged at the bottom of the dash. You will then be able to see the heater box and some other gubbins that nobody understands anymore! I found that the brain box of the nokia unit fitted lovely up behind the heater box just wedged in. you can easily run the wires you need to the stereo quadlock connector from here, also pass the power leads this way but they dont connect to the quadlock connector.

Fitting the mic. You can remove the light in the head lining by carefully removing the lens and there are two screws holding it in, ignore the sunglasses holder you dont need to worry about that to fit the mic. You could either stick the supplied mic onto the interior light and replace the light, or what I did, dismantle the mic and fit it into the OEM mic slot, your choice, obviously the OEM hole looks tidier, but you need to make sure that it is well insulated from the plastic light fitting to keep road, wind and engine noise down. Run the mic cable along the front lip of the headlining. wash your hands first so you dont get grubby marks on the headlining. then run it down the A-pillar and with a little imagination with trim panels you can get it to the control box without being seen at all.

Fitting the button. If you want to use the blank panel to the left of the climate control panel for the button, you can feed the wire easily underneath this tiny panel to make it look tidy. In the hole where the stereo fits in, you can see where the dash is screwed to the under dash frame with two torx screws at the top of the stereo hole, loosen the left torx screw. Carefully prise the bottom of the little panel next to the climate control panel, it will not come all the way out, dont force it or it will break. When the bottom is free there is a hole underneath that the plug for the handsfree button will easily fit through as long as you pull down on the bottom of the stereo hole on the left hand side with the screw loose. Get the plug to the control unit and presto. Push the stereo hole up at the left hand side while tightening the torx screw that holds it to the dash.

Fitting the power. Remember there is no constant or ignition live in the quadlock connector as this uses can-bus. Remove the fuse box cover under the steering wheel. there are two screws holding the fuse panel in, loosen them. Although it is difficult, it is possible to route the power cables that you pulled into the stereo hole to the fuse panel, this took me a while, some coffee and some head scratching. You need to take them out of the stereo hole, and down towards the cubby hole under the stereo, and then back to the right to the fuse panel. The wires will fit in just above the fuse panel for a tidier look, then screw it back tight. Get a multimeter out and find a spare constant and ignition live, attach spade connectors to the power cables and plug them in. When refitting the radio put the negative wire of the handsfree unit under one of the screws that holds the head unit in, this gives adequate earth point for the handsfree. I wouldn't recommend using it for any high current draw charger like things, use a body mounting point for these ideally, I chased the cigarette lighter earth for this.

Test it all and if its working how you want, put it all back together.

This should also give you enough to work with to fit your tomtom charger also.

Hope that helps

Regards

Rich

Gents,

Thanks for the comprehensive replies, i'll let you know how I get on (hopefully with photo's too)

Again thanks guys.

Hi Guys,

I drive a Fabia 3 1.4 TDI 80, I am having a slight rattle in the top glove box & the rattle disappears if I press the top glove box cover gently. I suspect that there might be a small bit of plastic or cable which is hitting the back of the top glove box when driven

I want to remove the glove box & see whats behind, so I tried to remove the glovebox by removing the two obvious screws just underneath the lid. But it seems the glovebox doesnt slide out easily, I havent tried applying any force

Has anyone tried removing this before, if so please could you guide me

I feel that there might be a hidden screw which I may have ignored, please help

Regards

Miheer

I too have this issue and have asked many times on here how to remove the glovebox, no replys as yet as how to do that.

I fitted a bluetooth handsfree, mobile phone charger, cd changer and tomtom charger to my old fabia 3, there is no need to remove the glove box.

I am assuming that you are using a nokia ck-7w handsfree because they are common and cheap (no offence intended). Also sorry about the lack of pictures, I recently sold my Fabia 3 in favour of an Octavia L&K, so dont have anything I could photograph.

removing the radio. Remove the trim around the radio, I used an old store card to prise it out, there are 4 clips top and bottom on the facia trim holding it in. I found it easiest to ease it out in the corners. Then remove the 4 torx bolts holding the stereo in, carefully remove the stereo unit and put it somewhere safe, there is a label on it that says 'scrap if dropped'!!

Then you can get the the quadlock connector to utilise the tele mute and audio input for the head unit, although you will need to get the green plug and some wires for the quadlock to make this work, the part numbers are on another post just use the search to find them.

Fitting the control box. In the passenger footwell put the back of your hands on the floor at the top of the footwell push your hands towards the engine and up behind the polystyrene sound blocker panel at the same time. There is a sort of clip in the middle of the firewall cover that stops it falling out. Push this in, then pull the polystyrene sheet down, like a door, hinged at the bottom of the dash. You will then be able to see the heater box and some other gubbins that nobody understands anymore! I found that the brain box of the nokia unit fitted lovely up behind the heater box just wedged in. you can easily run the wires you need to the stereo quadlock connector from here, also pass the power leads this way but they dont connect to the quadlock connector.

Fitting the mic. You can remove the light in the head lining by carefully removing the lens and there are two screws holding it in, ignore the sunglasses holder you dont need to worry about that to fit the mic. You could either stick the supplied mic onto the interior light and replace the light, or what I did, dismantle the mic and fit it into the OEM mic slot, your choice, obviously the OEM hole looks tidier, but you need to make sure that it is well insulated from the plastic light fitting to keep road, wind and engine noise down. Run the mic cable along the front lip of the headlining. wash your hands first so you dont get grubby marks on the headlining. then run it down the A-pillar and with a little imagination with trim panels you can get it to the control box without being seen at all.

Fitting the button. If you want to use the blank panel to the left of the climate control panel for the button, you can feed the wire easily underneath this tiny panel to make it look tidy. In the hole where the stereo fits in, you can see where the dash is screwed to the under dash frame with two torx screws at the top of the stereo hole, loosen the left torx screw. Carefully prise the bottom of the little panel next to the climate control panel, it will not come all the way out, dont force it or it will break. When the bottom is free there is a hole underneath that the plug for the handsfree button will easily fit through as long as you pull down on the bottom of the stereo hole on the left hand side with the screw loose. Get the plug to the control unit and presto. Push the stereo hole up at the left hand side while tightening the torx screw that holds it to the dash.

Fitting the power. Remember there is no constant or ignition live in the quadlock connector as this uses can-bus. Remove the fuse box cover under the steering wheel. there are two screws holding the fuse panel in, loosen them. Although it is difficult, it is possible to route the power cables that you pulled into the stereo hole to the fuse panel, this took me a while, some coffee and some head scratching. You need to take them out of the stereo hole, and down towards the cubby hole under the stereo, and then back to the right to the fuse panel. The wires will fit in just above the fuse panel for a tidier look, then screw it back tight. Get a multimeter out and find a spare constant and ignition live, attach spade connectors to the power cables and plug them in. When refitting the radio put the negative wire of the handsfree unit under one of the screws that holds the head unit in, this gives adequate earth point for the handsfree. I wouldn't recommend using it for any high current draw charger like things, use a body mounting point for these ideally, I chased the cigarette lighter earth for this.

Test it all and if its working how you want, put it all back together.

This should also give you enough to work with to fit your tomtom charger also.

Hope that helps

Regards

Rich

Rich,

I used an autoleads wiring loom that sits between the radio and car quadlock cables which allows my CK-7W to use the car speakers, etc. The one thing I had a problem with is the ignition-switched +12v supply and eventually ended up with an ignition sense module, but it doesn't work very well (as previously advised by my local Car Security and I.C.E centre). Is there any chance you can remember which part of the fuse panel has the swicthed supply?

Regards,

Richard.

Hi you all. I was searching over the internet about the famous rattle on Fabia's dash. All I've found so far are these links (in polish)

http://www.fabiaclub.pl/forum-pl/viewtopic.php?t=334&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=60

http://www.fcp.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4647

where, as far as I could understand someone was able to fix this issue. I'm not polish, nor english is my first language. If some of you understand some polish and is willing to translate them we'd all appreciatte it.

regards,