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I’ve had occasional problems with the infotainment screen ranging from touch not working to touch calibration randomly going wonky. I’ve just fixed (from a powered on status) by holding down the power button knob for about 10 secs which seems to initiate a reboot and the skoda splash screen appears / all was well after that. Advanced switching it off and on again. :-)

I’ve got the same issue with a 2016 Octavia Estate. Alarm randomly went off when were in the house. Indicators flash and alarm sounds. Unlocking the car turns it off. Locking it again immediately starts the drivers side alarm led flashing, then the indicators flash and eventually the alarm sounds. disabling the alarm using the drivers side door pillar button makes no difference. The dashboard display flashes too and appears to indicate the boot area being the problem. Read about the boot sensor but can’t see where it is located.

Hi Nick i’ve not gone back to it yet and was hoping for another response here. I did find an old post with a set of octavia service manuals in it but the link was broken and I’ve not started scouring the net for those yet. sorry I can’t be more help. I’ll post back here if i find a solution. cheers

Decided that pulling the rubber gromit off the inside of the boot and skooshing the rear washer while it was off was a better way of ascertaining if the leak was from the boot door or in the boot itself. The flexi hose area inside the gromit was bone dry and stayed bone dry after running the washer but screenwash appeared inside the boot next to the carpet trim on the left. I’m now back where I started and looking for advice on removing those internal trim/carpet sections.

Found this youtube video for removing the trim. The washer outlet on that one is at the left of the light whereas mine is on the right:

I’ll check that tomorrow. Was there a 90° elbow coupler that the pipe had popped out of in your case? Was it nearer to the left / nearside of the boot door or did you have stuff leaking down at both the left and right side?

I’ve not seen anything leaking that high up or in the area of the brake light under the rear spoiler where the washer outlet is. The carpet on the left of the inside of the boot is wet and I can feel that the foam stuff under the carpet on the left side inside the boot is wet. it looks like the pipe that services the rear skoosher runs behind the trim on the nearside of the boot and goes up to the brake light assembly through a flexi hose that you can see with the boot up.

Hi All Newbie on the forum and a first time poster 🙂 I’ve got a 2016 Octavia Estate that the rear washer suddenly stopped working on - as in, I was skooshing away last week and fluid stopped coming out even though I could hear the pump and the front washer still worked ok. I did the usual spot of googling to find that it’s a fairly common problem and reading a few posts, decided to check the boot / spare wheel well for fluid. Right enough, the spare wheel area was flooded with screen wash. I’ve started trying to remove the rear trim in the boot to get at the pipework but I’m scared to try and force anything off in case it breaks. There are 3 screws on the left side, 2 x under the shopping bag hook things and a 3rd further on. I also took the 2 push pins and 2 hex screw things out of the piece of trim that runs along the bit where the boot catch is. Struggled to find a suitable youtube video on how to remove the trim undamaged and don’t know if I really need any tools. Noticed that some folks were using trim removal tools but they might not be essential. Would appreciate any advice. Intend to make a video to post to youtube when I get to the bottom of it. Cheers