Heater Control Bulb Replacement - Help!

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Heater Control Bulb Replacement - Help!

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Need to find out how to get the fan speed knob off the heater controls to replace a faulty bulb.

In the Golf you just give it a good tug and off it comes but the Polo is refusing to budge. Im pulling so hard its about to pull the whole lot away from the centre console.

Is there a knack to it? or just keep trying?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Post by Nelson »

Take out the radio, and its cage, then reach in and pull white holder away from the back of the controls, bulb is in there. It cannot be changed from the front.

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Cheers for that, will go and try it now!
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No Good, Radio is no where near the heater controls in the Polo, i have pretty much dis-assembled the centre console area where the heater controls are and there is no obvious location for the bulb. Heater controls dont want to come out either as they are attached via the cables and conecting cables for the electrics and heater flaps.

Any more suggestions, i'm stumped! :x

(its a MkIV Polo, 1.4 TDI PD (3cyl))
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FSI Steve wrote:No Good, Radio is no where near the heater controls in the Polo, i have pretty much dis-assembled the centre console area where the heater controls are and there is no obvious location for the bulb. Heater controls dont want to come out either as they are attached via the cables and conecting cables for the electrics and heater flaps.

Any more suggestions, i'm stumped! :x

(its a MkIV Polo, 1.4 TDI PD (3cyl))
And what reg is that on - I'm thinking they never made a MKIV 1.4TDI sounds more like 9n
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Post by srbpower »

Just done this in our 6n 16V (in the dark :cry: ) Its dead easy, although I wasn't saying that at the time :lol:

Pull off facia of the heater controls, this just clips of. Then undo to two screws for the panel under the heater control one. On ours its has the electric windows on. Once these screws are out. Simply pull the panel out.

Then undo the three screws for the heater control panel. Once these are out, You can simiply push the unit back, then with a bit of playing with it you can drop it down and bring it out of the hole where the lower panel is. Its a bit of a fiddle but quite easy. Just don't rush.

Then once its out its dead easy to replace the bulb. Then reverse the steps, again a fiddly job.

Hope that helps.

Although just seen, that your polo is a different model, so might not be the same.


Si :)
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His car is a MK5, so I'm bumping it over that way.
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Yep noticed that after I'd posted :)

Si :)
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Its a 6n i think

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You are correct, the car listed in the gallery is my old 9n (in blue)
The bulb i am trying to replace is the one in my dads 6n (i think) 51 reg polo, the model before the 9n.

it has the same looking heater control panel as is in the Mk IV Golf, it sits in the lower console below a little tray type thing and above the switch panel where the Heated Rear Window is!

Hope this helps a little and can aid in my quest to change this bulb!
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Post by tom16v »

ur going about this all wrong!! to change the bulb turn the fan control to pos.1 and pull,the control will pop off n u can easily change the bulb! at least its that easy on mine :)
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