Hi everyone

So I've got an early mk6 Fiesta (non face-lift)

Ever since the cold weather has set in I've noticed that my heated front windscreen doesn't work at all... I press the button to turn it on and nothing happens, I touch the windscreen and there's no sign of warmth at all. I'm a new driver and this is my first car, just wondered if anyone on here could give me a few helpers on to finding out whats gone wrong if its maybe a fuse or completely dead windscreen.

Any help would be great!! thank you

James.

Are you sure the windscreen hasn't been replaced? If you look hard at the screen can you see lots of little squiggly lines ( the elements)?

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Yeah, my windscreen is the correct type and does have squiggly lines

Does the engine noise change when you turn on the heated screen (because of a drain on the battery)?

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First point of call I'd check the fuse, not sure which one it is as haven't got my Haynes in my hand right now but if you get stuck or no one else gets back I'll have a look for you :)

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check fuse F42 & F43 30 amp i think,

yunii

Thank you everyone for your responses, I will go have a look and see what I can do with this information.

I will message back if I manage to fix it.

Once again thank you.

On 12/22/2014 at 4:36 PM, JamesG2571 said:

Yeah, my windscreen is the correct type and does have squiggly lines

Yes does have the lines

On 12/22/2014 at 5:13 PM, StumpyBloke said:

Does the engine noise change when you turn on the heated screen (because of a drain on the battery)?

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No mate not that I can hear 

Pretty sure I've read somewhere that many old Fords are suffering from failure of the heated screen, where the electrical connections hook up to the screen these parts are and become weak and it only takes one to break and the screen nolonger works.