Picture the scene....

You are driving along in your new Skoda Superb 2.

It's a nice dry, sunny day.

You decide that you would like to get some air into the car and so operate the smooth electric window.

As it's summer your windscreen starts to get a few insect strikes, marking it.

You decide to operate the windscreen washer.

All of the water then runs off over and around your screen and runs in to the open window and all over you!

WTF?

Why no sill to stop this happening?

As I said, unbelievable.

Is your climate control broken :-)

Picture the scene....

You are driving along in your new Skoda Superb 2.

It's a nice dry, sunny day.

Long time ago then eh?!

As it's summer your windscreen starts to get a few insect strikes, marking it.

You decide to operate the windscreen washer.

I wouldn't as it would smear the remaining remnants of the insects causing them to streak all over the screen, thereby making your vision worse!

Not sure you're driving in the UK either so it must be a left hooker, what's this dry sunny day fantasy???

If we DO get to have a nice hot sunny day the only air I'll be getting will be the climate control adjusted to 19 degrees.

To answer your question seriously though, pretty much all cars these days have this problem, if there's a sill it'll affect the aerodynamics, which knocks on to higher emissions (although you having your window open doesn't help much either!)

Picture the scene....

You are driving along in your new Skoda Superb 2.

It's a nice dry, sunny day.

You decide that you would like to get some air into the car and so operate the smooth electric window.

As it's summer your windscreen starts to get a few insect strikes, marking it.

You decide to operate the windscreen washer.

All of the water then runs off over and around your screen and runs in to the open window and all over you!

WTF?

Why no sill to stop this happening?

As I said, unbelievable.

Whilst I don't have a Superb yet - on order - I have now had 5 cars with air conditioning and I don't recall the last time I drove any distance with a window open (except when it failed - last June 2011 - 39C!!!)

Edited 10 July, 201213 yr by 100andthirty

agreed, dont open window, when you have climate control, windows are for

a: looking through.

b: discarding apple cores, chewing gum, or phlegmy build up.

c: causing great displeasure when motor packs in, leaving you to get wet when operating windscreen washer.

Solution keep window closed unless options b or c are necessary. When b and/or c are taking place, refrain from washing the windscreen.

alternatively you could do as follows: wash windscreen and (if i remember correctly) raise right shoulder, lean left, tuck elbow right into side, look at door card and shout eeerrrgghh.

I dont think its in the manual that so ......... your welcome

The gutter that is rarely there on newer cars, increases wind resistance and therefore decreases fuel economy. At least that's my understanding.

The gutter that is rarely there on newer cars, increases wind resistance and therefore decreases fuel economy. At least that's my understanding.

Yep increases noise too so they usually leave it out.

I hear you, but it's not quite what I would term as unbelievable, it is the worse car I've had that has rain swirls on the side windows completley blocking the view in the reav view mirrors though.

It's because the rain channel/gullys up the A-pillars are not deep enough so the rain just spills around the sides insead of going up on to the roof, but as I said it is not the end of the world and a good enough reason I would expect any water to come in the side window if it was open.

Fabia, Roomster, Octavia, VW Golf, Superb all suffer the same. I very rarely drive with the window open, so to me it was never a problem. its a modern car thing to reduce drag and improve emissions as a result.

Isn't it only smokers who drive with a window down?

You have the same problem on all modern cars if the roof is wet and you go around a corner with the window open, especially if you have only just started and your car is polished.

I remember cars with rain gutters all around the roof that would prevent this, but they provided a lot of awkward corners for cleaning and were an inevitable rust trap, as well as producing a lot of noise as already mentioned.

Hardly any cars have any form of gutter etc now for wind resistance reasons, had the same thing on a number of cars SAAB Jag etc. Same with rain water of the roof when raining and you open a door.