The gallery actually seems to be broken at the moment. My pic is now listed on p7, but all pages from the end of 6 onwards are blank. According to the help page, I should be able to attach files to my posts, but there doesn't seem to be a way of actually doing that! If you send me a PM I'll email you the pic directly instead.

Regards,

Dave

Amendment - see image here:

Thanks for taking the time to repost the picture. This seems like a good idea to divert some of the rainwater.

Thanks for all the info everyone and yes the above pic is a genius idea! If the weather improves tomorrow I shall attack this.

Thanks for taking the time to repost the picture. This seems like a good idea to divert some of the rainwater.

You've got the same model as I have, Peter, and the same age, so there's no reason the cure won't be the same as well.

I've just noticed from my pic that the P-strip is starting to peel away at the bottom: what a drag - in six month's time it looks like I'm going to have to spend five minutes pulling it all off and sticking on some new bits! Not as much fun as ripping all the carpets out and waving a hair dryer at them for two hours, though, is it?

Thanks for all the info everyone and yes the above pic is a genius idea! If the weather improves tomorrow I shall attack this.

Cheers, Kev - I hope it works for you as well! Maybe even Doubting Thomas #24 will give it a try?

After resealing my rear doors twice, the drivers side seems to be ok. But after last nights downfall i need to re-do the passenger side...Grrr.. I may just have some P strip draughtproofing lying around somewhere so going to give Dave1953's method a go. I'll report back in a week or soo

After resealing my rear doors twice, the drivers side seems to be ok. But after last nights downfall i need to re-do the passenger side...Grrr.. I may just have some P strip draughtproofing lying around somewhere so going to give Dave1953's method a go. I'll report back in a week or soo

We had 26mm last night, and 42mm in an hour a few weeks ago, but nothing in the car.

Thanks for the pics, Dave1953.

 

I've just done your draught excluder fix. I haven't tried the other method (taking off the door card) so I'll see if this works.

 

I'm not sure if I dare look under the carpet on a 12 year old car...

I'm not sure if I dare look under the carpet on a 12 year old car...

You never know Rich there might be a lost winning lottery ticket lol

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Hello,

 

sorry for resurrecting this thread, but this wet rear floor issue has hit me now after 10 years of driving my Fabia aswell. (2006 Mk1 Estate TDI).

 

Of course I read about the countless threads about resealing the door interior, but this thread caught my eye as it seems to be an easy fix and it seems to be working well for Dave1953. As he wrote this in 2011 I doubt he can help me with this issue now, but can anyone else confirm if they were successful with this? 

 

On 12.9.2014 at 11:27, mad_rich said:

Thanks for the pics, Dave1953.

 

I've just done your draught excluder fix. I haven't tried the other method (taking off the door card) so I'll see if this works.

 

I'm not sure if I dare look under the carpet on a 12 year old car...

 

Any luck?

 

I'd be glad to hear back from someone. If not, I will be resealing the doors the usual way I guess.

 

Cheers,

David

On 09/10/2011 at 17:14, Dave1953 said:

I used to suffer badly from wet rear floors in my Fabia, even after replacing the sealant on the door carrier seals. However, it was while replacing the sealant again with simple household self-adhesive 'P' type rubber draughtproofing seal (an idea I had that this would make a better job of it) that it dawned on me that the problem was not caused by leaky seals themselves, but by the water running through the inside of the door being unable to drain away quickly enough whenever it rained. This happens, I think, because the weather seals around the tops of the doors appear to channel so much water around the tops of the wheel arches to the door sills that it forms a continuous pool between the sills and the undersides of the door outer edges. Atmospheric pressure and meniscal or capillary forces then act to dam up the water inside the doors by preventing it from getting out of the drain holes at the bottom of the door edges.

The answer, it appeared, was simply to stop, or reduce, the flow of water over the rear wheel arches to allow the water inside the doors to drain out quickly enough. All I did to effect the solution was stick two 50mm lengths of P-strip directly under the weatherseal at each side of the car, on the narrow, curving, outward-facing lip (not the wider, flat, forward-facing area). This just effectively extends the wetherseal to the point at which the body/door curvature turns downward more steeply, and makes rainwater run back to the outside of the body rather than between the rear of the door and the wheel arch. If I haven't explained this very well, just try it anyway and see if it works for you. I did this simple mod about 16/17 months ago and the car has been dry ever since, whereas it previously only took a moderate shower to have water in pools on the rear footmats. Incidentally, I ended up only replacing the carrier seal on the RH rear door with P-strip, and left the LH one (the more leaky one) as it was, to test my theory out and see what happened, but the fact that both footwells are now permanently dry would indicate that the door carrier seals were never the root cause of the problem in the first place! The reason some cars may be prone to wetness whilst others are dry is probably due to the height at which the rear doors were attached during manufacture - the cars with the doors set slightly higher will have a larger gap under the drain holes, just enough the prevent the ponding and capillary action from occurring and allowing water inside the doors to flow away freely.

I'm sorry if I sound like a mad scientist, but I think my simple solution appears to have identified and cured the cause of the problem, rather than just temporarily hiding the symptoms of it, and the job only takes two minutes to do (instead of 2-3 hours).

(PS - I've added a photo to the gallery (p6), as I couldn't see how to attach it directly to the post.)

Thanks Dave this fixed my Fabia Mk1 too and saved me trying  the carrier seal malarky!