Hi,

I've a 2003 fabia estate comfort and it started leaking, I've managed to fix it (rear right door).

My father has a fabia(yes the house looks like a skoda dealership) with electric windows at the rear (mine are manual) and his has never leaked, despite it being older than mine and parking in the same position/angle

I also have another friend with electric windows at the rear, and that's an older can as well, that's never leaked either.

I'm just wondering if it's anything to do with it?

maybe this is the order of the issue at where my logical guess is at now..

1.Carrier panel too weak (cheap).

2.The more the winder's get used the more the panel's seal is not true.

3.It rains hard and the neoprene? seal almost has a suction effect pouring water into the car.

4.carpet gets soaked

5.car smells of damp dog

6.water vapour soakes the inside of the windscreen

7.weather turns freezing freezing the inside of the windscreem more than you'd expect - how lovely. (this last point alerted me to the fact it was leaking!)

Should of stupped up the cash for the Elegance edition??

Depends if carrier plate is the old bolt on affair or the later pants riveted type. Riveted type doesn't compress the carrier seal enough, plus the seal is rubbish and just soaks up water. Sealing the carrier with a decent body mastic is the only cure.

FWIW if you never use the rear windows, you can seal the glass touch seal with some black insulating tape. This stops water getting into the door in the first place. If done neatly you can't see the tape. This is my next job once it stops raining.

Very interesting. My leaky door is the bolted type.

I jumped in too deep at first undoing the door into bits, including

Taking the winding mechanisum off the plate BAD IDEA!!dealing hard to put back (involving rivets)

I stripped off all the seal material and resealled it with mastic.

Of course I put it all todgether then shut the door and the outside doorhand worked but you had to pull it a second time, Weird. So took apart again and ripped out with force a plastic panel Which had semi-broken on dissasemble. Then all ok.

Broke only the inside grey pull handle come armrest.

Plastic breaks SO easily in the cold.

Your taping of that hole I considered at first but questioned be longevity of it.

my rear passenger door leaks. and i got electric rears!!! need to fix it coz it's really annoying