The fuses would be an obvious place to start - on your car, the LH and RH side/tail lamps are fused separately. Unless both sides are lit, the dashboard lighting will be off - as it is when you select the parking lamps. A word of warning though:

When I bought my Skoda Superb as part of its "acceptance" examination I examined the fuses and the chart clipped inside the cover giving their locations and functions.

It was complete gibberish, bearing no obvious relation to what's actually there - just what you need on a cold wet night when something stops working.

The dealer of course was completely "unaware" of this (do they actually know anything?), so it was time to think of a solution whilst everything still works.

VAG bean counter division had been at it again - the fuse box is on the end of the dashboard, so a LHD Superb has a fuse box which is the mirror image of that fitted to my (RHD) car. No problems with this, except that they had not bothered to produce a "RHD" fuse card - all of the information was mirror-imaged.

After a few expletives, there was an obvious fix - scan the original card and use Microsoft publisher to laterally invert the image. The functions are mostly diagrammatic (eg headlamp symbol) so only the numbers become mirror imaged which is not a problem.

Print the result and fit it to your fuse box lid.

Microsoft 1; VAG very definitely 0.

Sometimes I really hate this Company.

659.

Edited by 659FBE on 19/08/2011 at 22:52