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    in Skoda Yeti

    Posted · Edited by vRSG60

    Hmm I simply add mine via a funnel and fill until it looks close to the top. Filling a small portion at a time. Warning light goes out straight away.

    Would you risk buying an L&K ?

    in Skoda Yeti

    Posted · Edited by vRSG60

    13 hours ago, Prezafab said:

    Just to understand, if it's wrapped on the metal but not the rubber seal, how would that stop it leaking / water getting in ? Great idea though.

    If the question is to me, it doesn't. I didn't know it leaked when I first got the car. I had it wrapped black because I wanted a white body/black roof Yeti and the car was all white.

    Would you risk buying an L&K ?

    in Skoda Yeti

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    5 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

    Have you (or anyone else reading) had this done? Approx cost?  Sounds like a great workaround to me, and I've just suggested it to someone I know with a leaky one.

    I had my roof wrapped black. the wrap doesn't cover the sunroof, it was cut out around it. Around £200.

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    Parking sensors not working

    in Skoda Yeti

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    1 hour ago, Carlodiesel said:

    Its under the roof lining, on the top right of roof trim as you open the tailgate.

    You will need to remove side trims and lower roof lining on the right.

    Well that's where my on is.

     

    I haven't removed mine as my buzzer is working fine.

     

    Here's me thinking the sound came from each individual speaker depending on the proximity.

    FL - FR

    RL - RR

    Leaking Panoramic Roof - The Cause and the Cure

    in Skoda Yeti

    Posted · Edited by vRSG60

    Carpets feel dry to me now but the car suffers badly now from condensation. Dried all the wondows & sunroof with paper towels yesterday. Condenstation again this morning and each evening when I finish work.

    I had the Air Con was regassed in the summer & a new compressor fitted. but it's never been good at de-humidifiying. My previous vRS Octavia cleared the screen of any condenstaion in seconds.

    Even using the heated screen takes minutes to clear condensation on the winsdcreen. It clears a frosted screen OK (not exactly quickly) but takes a while with condenstation.

    The air con does get cold though. I know there's a dehumidifyer type part of the air con that can be changed.

     

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    Roof bar bolts--again!

    in Skoda Yeti

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    On 20/12/2014 at 12:42, yetiscot said:

    I am in the process of swapping my 110se for a 170 Elegance

    I fitted the standard Skoda roof bars to my old car, 3 years ago, with the special tapered bolts. I recall they were very tight to go in and now they wont come out.

    The bolts are a a bit of of a mad price at £12 for four, so that's £24 plus p&p! Part code  LAS630010 refers

    Firstly does anyone know if there is a part code for eight of the things which might save me a few bob or any other suggestions would be welcome. As an aside I note that there is a bit of surface corrosion on the old bolts which may be reflected in the interior of fittings, which might be part of the problem, plus the cold weather setting the loctite really hard.

    £12 for 4 is cheap compared to the £80+ I was quoted, buy them.

    Leaking Panoramic Roof - The Cause and the Cure

    in Skoda Yeti

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    23 hours ago, Weti said:

     

    Absolutely this is the case. When I removed my headlining, I could see the entire roof, front and rear, was covered in condensation. Once the floor was dried out, the condensation effect stopped. 
    Have you removed your carpets? This is the best way to dry the foam in the peddle area of the footwell which retains water incredibly well. 

    I've not removed the carpets, it looks too much of a faff. I've had an electric blower heater in there for a few hours on numerous ocassions.

    Leaking Panoramic Roof - The Cause and the Cure

    in Skoda Yeti

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    On 15/11/2023 at 12:33, Grantola said:

     

     

    It's a hypothesis only at this stage, but I think the wind deflector could somehow be channeling the water across the drainage channels where it's supposed to go and dropping it onto the structure we've both highlighted as open to the interior. The leak that I have certainly appears to have wetted the interior right under that structure (can't conclude anything concrete from that though, it could easily be tracking from any of the holes you've identified as suspect). Evidence to muse upon.

     

     

     

     

    Something I've suspected for a while.

    Leaking Panoramic Roof - The Cause and the Cure

    in Skoda Yeti

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    On 14/11/2023 at 22:16, Grantola said:

    I've been following this thread for a while now and have tried many of the creative and appreciated fixes suggested by soggy-Yeti owners to date. To me, there's always been something fundamentally wrong that we've not identified as owners yet. My car has got progressively worse over time and the volume of water that's coming in to me implies a direct path, I suspect not (or in addition to) a capillary path. 

     

    @Wetiwhen I read your post it made a lot of sense to me and hence I popped out this evening and fashioned the seals out of inner tube that you suggested, installed in mine. The design of the OEM seals really is crap as the whole thing depends on the drip pointing down the way otherwise the water is going to potentially run from the seal into that gap. The seals on mine have varible angles and I could see your hypothesis holding water (excuse the pun). Kudos for spotting it and providing this suggestion of a fix. I'll be delighted to test it.

     

    I couldn't see how you'd got this concept to work with the sliding roof mechanism, so I simply ran the seal as far as I could around the front before it would start interfering with the roof mechanism. My leak is NSF.

     

    While I was in there poking the inner tube in with a cake knife (the extant seal does seal nicely to it - nice thinking!), I spotted something. Has anyone considered the possibility of the wind deflector forming a structure to channel water from the area where it should drip into the tray to the inner part of the assembly? I saw that the inner plastic at the corner of the assembly was wet (highlighted in the image). The only way I could see water getting there was via the wind deflector. 

     

    So I clipped out the wind deflector/fly screen (dead easy with flat blade screwdriver) and will try this in conjunction with the fix that @Weti has suggested.

     

    It's been kept in the garage for the past couple of months, it is out in the Scottish rain tonight.

     

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    I've actually coated the area you mention with sealant, both side, in fact there's not much I haven't coated in sealant.  I'm still getting a leak form somewhere. I've a feeling condenstation on the inside of the glass can run down onto the headlining then leak into the cabin somewhow.

    I also have a feeling that actually using the sunroof eventually breaks the seal between the front crossmember & side oieces due to flexing. I ran my car with no roof lining for 3 months & I could see the water ingress from the joint on the inside.

    All my drains are clear but I haven't secured the drain joints.

    I'm totally fed up with it all. It spoils a great car. Tiguans are affected the same, so it's a sunroof design fault.

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