skoda Workshop Repair Guides

Skoda Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Door entry lighting in the exterior mirror > < High level brake light
Removing and installing lock cylinder
Removing and installing lock cylinder
  WARNING
The steering lock must not be moved without the lock cylinder, otherwise it would block completely. The blocked steering lock must be replaced
Removing
–  Disconnect battery earth strap → Chapter.
  Note
The steering wheel must not be removed. For installing the fixing screws of the bottom trim panel for steering column, turn the steering wheel to the left by 90° and subsequently turn it to the right.
–  First of all remove the top and then the bottom steering column trim panel → Body Work; Rep. gr.70.
   
–  Place the ignition key in the lock cylinder and turn to position „Ignition on“-2-.
–  Lead a steel cable (about 1.2 mm in diameter) through the hole in the ignition key -arrow-.
  S94-0192
–  Use the steel cable -2- to unlock the securing lever -3- of the lock cylinder -arrow- and to pull the lock cylinder out of the steering lock. For this step carefully slacken the cable to the reading coil of the vehicle immobiliser.
  S94-0193
–  Separate plug connection for immobiliser -1-.
  Note
The reading coil for the vehicle immobiliser is fixed to the lock cylinder and cannot be replaced separately.
Install
–  Place the ignition key in the lock cylinder and turn to position „Ignition on“.
–  Fit the plug connection together on the reading coil.
–  Insert the lock cylinder with the reading coil into the steering lock housing until it clicks audibly into place.
  Note
Pay attention to the correct position of the cable to the reading coil of the vehicle immobiliser when inserting the lock cylinder.
–  Install steering column trim panels → Body Work; Rep. gr.70.
–  Pay attention to the work sequence when connecting the battery earth strap → Chapter.
  S94-0175

Door entry lighting in the exterior mirror > < High level brake light