Glove box light not working

[ddizzle]

I've just noticed that my glove box light is not working, and in fact has never worked since I bought the car in January this year.

I pulled the light cover off and can see that there is a globe installed inside. Does anyone know if there is a quick DIY fix?

[woofy]

Mine isn't either. It was at the dealers more than not the first week I had it so haven't been in the mood to tell them about it and go back. My seat height adjuster gets jammed from new as well. At first I thought the seat was already down at its lowest.

[spud75]

I've just noticed that my glove box light is not working, and in fact has never worked since I bought the car in January this year.

I pulled the light cover off and can see that there is a globe installed inside. Does anyone know if there is a quick DIY fix?

It is a fairly quick DIY fix, but fiddly.

You will be pulling the glove box out.

6 screws for that one. 3 inside the top lip, 2 underneath, and one in the side under the access panel covered by the passenger door when closed.

Check all contacts and that the bulb is not blown. (duh)

I have swapped mine out for an LED as much brighter.

[woofy]

I noticed that the fuses are in behind the glovebox, you can see a big slot for good things to fall into there so guessing you don't pry the side of the dash anymore to get to them. I would have thought the glovebox just unclips and out it the door comes, does it really have a heap of screws? That seems bizarre and a first for me.

[k_rider]

Not as simple as the Mk2 (which were under the cover on the driver's side of the dash - looks another thing that didn't make the migration from LHD to RHD...)
Just spotted this in the manual the other day, and went something like having to remove the cover on the LHS of the dash, removing a clip so that the glovebox drops down... Looked like a monumental PITA, just the thing to bring that extra bit of joy when having to replace a fuse on an unlit road in the middle of a rainy night, which is when all fuses blow, right?

[woofy]

Still can't get why the glovebox doesn't just get squeezed at either side and then drop out like the myriad of them the world over. Would make it easy all around. It looked easier than prying the side of the dash off, but of course it isn't what was I thinking....

[Gerrycan]

Not as simple as the Mk2 (which were under the cover on the driver's side of the dash - looks another thing that didn't make the migration from LHD to RHD...)
Just spotted this in the manual the other day, and went something like having to remove the cover on the LHS of the dash, removing a clip so that the glovebox drops down... Looked like a monumental PITA, just the thing to bring that extra bit of joy when having to replace a fuse on an unlit road in the middle of a rainy night, which is when all fuses blow, right?

I cannot say I have had any fuses go on me in a car in over 40 years, but the rainy night scenario you portray is familiar to me for punctures though.

[ddizzle]

Thanks spud75. Will give this a go when I get a chance. Sounds like a real PITA.
Pretty poor of Skoda quality control when more than one of us doesn't have the glovebox light working when new.