Minor rant. Just did the rear door carrier seal repair to my Furby VRS to stop minor water leak into rear of car.

1: Design of the seal between carrier and door is a joke, it absorbs water! This has to be the wrong material for the job.

2: Despite having a proper trim removal tool, the clips were a sod to get out in one piece. Obviously one shot clips, with no thought of maintenance/repairs then.

3: I wonder why Skoda sealant is £40+ when a tube of £5 black sealer does the job just fine.

Anyway, it is now blowing a gale with pouring rain, so a good test

Both sides took about an hour and no new rattles.

As with all VW/Soda clips.

There rubbish.

They use the same kind of stuff on the pollen filter housing on 3B Passats and they leak all the time.

Some of the designs are crap.

you were lucky , the '96 on Fiesta clips were so bad , we used to break door trims trying to get them off

New passats are the same.

The clips on them are so tight the bottom of the door card comes away from the middle.

I've got mine to do, boo hoo.

Did you take the old seal off and just put sealant in between or seal round the old seal?

Mike

I've just done mine today, and the only clip I broke was the one that the Stealers had glued in with the sealent when they "repaired" the leak last year!

I think that the source of my leak may have been related to the fact that only one of the clips had it's rubber gasket still in place.

I've got mine to do, boo hoo.

Did you take the old seal off and just put sealant in between or seal round the old seal?

Mike

You just need to dry out the seal that's already there, and then apply sealant from the rivet that is half way up the carrier, all the way round to the other river, which is half way up the carrier. The sealant is applied between the carrier and inner door skin. Once applied you smooth it out with a rubber glove and some washing up liquid diluted with some water.

There's a how to on here somewhere.

Update, leaks stopped, and it was 60MPH winds with horizontal rain last night

I bought 10 clips for when I did 3 of my doors... I broke 7 of them haha

although I did have to take one back off after I clipped it all back up as i forgot to put the little red light back into the door card

they are really cheap anyway, i bought 20

........ 2: Despite having a proper trim removal tool, the clips were a sod to get out in one piece. Obviously one shot clips, with no thought of maintenance/repairs then......

Couple of questions..........

Where did you get the tool from and how much are they????

Is it worth getting or is it cheaper to just buy some clips????

Is it reqd for the front door trim removal????

I need to remove the front passenger door cards/trim as i have some resonation when the stereo's on quite loud.

Cheers

Dave.

the clips are about 25p each !.........buy some anyway, even if your the most careful person ever, and have trim removal tools, one or two will still break

no need for a trim removal tool, I used a pair of pliers and gripped the trim clips horizontally, they pull straight out (with a bit of force though). Think I broke 2 in total. I've just had the boot trim off to attach the rear washer hose, now thats a pain in the *** to put back on! You'd think with such common faults they would make it easier to access such areas and panels

Trim removal tool was £3.99 from local factors. Draper, and it's pants, it bent before the clips gave way. Easy way is to prise trim panel away with a large screwdriver to let you get fingers into the gap, then pull HARD. Clips will likely break, but 25p each including the little gasket seal. Broken clips will pull out with pliers.

I got the draper trim removal tool.

It's a waste of time.

All its good for is prising the door card off, but removing clips its pants.

And YES, those trim clips are a ****ing pain in the moobs.

I use an old fork, with the middle two prongs bent wide enough apart to get round each side of the clip and some fabric elastoplast wrapped wround the end of the fork at the bottom of the handle so I can get some leverage against painted metal without damaging it. But, in practice, most of those white clips will just come off with a good solid tug. Then, if the clip's not still attached to the metal work or the back of the trim piece, it's just a case of trying to find it.

I've got mine to do, boo hoo.

Did you take the old seal off and just put sealant in between or seal round the old seal?

Mike

Word fromtheSkoda tech tthat did mine was that was if they had screws they renewed seals , else they siliconed over the cards .Suspect the later from way they talked .

The best clips i've seen were on a Renault Clio, although the tacky glue like substance was a pain in the butt!

Spherical and just clicked into a cup on the doorcard....no breakages. Just nearly snapped the card in two trying to get the sealant to let go.

A bit of gentle heat from a hair drier on the door trim where the clips are usually helps.

Are the clips available from the dealers or would motor factors do them? Local Skoda dealer closed in December so it's now an hour round trip.

Was just trying to reattach the door panel and one of the clips broke. even worse the lock silver attachment thingy (that moves up and down when you lock/unlock the door has fallen out of place and into the bottom of the door, so I now have to take the bloody door apart again to get it back out.

You can buy 2 piece door trim clips in packets off 10 coloured black from Halfords. They consist off a sockets that goes into the metal hole and a stud that fits on the trim panel. You simply press the trim panel onto the metal panel to fix, subsequent removal off the trim panel does not break the clips. About a £1 a packet. If you you buy them from a VAG dealer they are about 60p. each.

Thanks

Having given my advice, I hope they still sell them. Let us know if they do still sell them Piggeh.

Yep, they still sell them Couple of quid for 10.

Excellent! You got those quick. The best thing is they don't break.