Octavia/ golf 4 heater controls in a corrado?

[stevemlc 0]

Been looking at ways to improve the illumination and reliability of my late version heater controls. Thinking of using octavia version (keep the green lighting) of the golf 4 rotaries with a golf trim panel slotted into the normal mounting points on the c.

Anybody tried this?

[smee 0]

Not got round to it yet (my heater controls work pretty well!) but do have a skoda set of switches to use. The mounting points are in the same place, though you may need the screws and speed nuts from the Corrado ones as the more modern ones are a coarser thread. The ends of the cables at the control end are different, so you'll need the octavia cables as well, the heater box ends are the same. Only other issue is you'll need to knock up a couple of little jumper cables to go from the heater illumination plug in the C, to the different illumination and re-circulate plug on the skoda controls. Whether the trim panel fits I don't know, it probably requires a little trimming to fit the C's centre console. I was thinking of doing the swap, but was trying to create a hybrid mk4 golf/Corrado centre console to give a double din slot as well.

[stevemlc 0]

Thanks

Useful to know about the cable ends.

I've also got a golf double din fascia in the garage plus my old centre console insert - looks do-able and has got me thinking about the skoda in dash 6 cd I've got lying around!

Anybody done the double din dash?

[fla 9]

Not got round to it yet (my heater controls work pretty well!) but do have a skoda set of switches to use. The mounting points are in the same place, though you may need the screws and speed nuts from the Corrado ones as the more modern ones are a coarser thread. The ends of the cables at the control end are different, so you'll need the octavia cables as well, the heater box ends are the same. Only other issue is you'll need to knock up a couple of little jumper cables to go from the heater illumination plug in the C, to the different illumination and re-circulate plug on the skoda controls. Whether the trim panel fits I don't know, it probably requires a little trimming to fit the C's centre console. I was thinking of doing the swap, but was trying to create a hybrid mk4 golf/Corrado centre console to give a double din slot as well.

 

Do you have a picture of said controls? I've got all the bits to do a climatronic swop but just cant see when i'm going to get round to doing it :( so might just swop the heater panel over.