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Can anyone shed any light on why im now getting soaking wet carpets drivers side and rear drivers passenger side !

I know wev'e had alot of rain recently .

I've looked at :- Possible drain holes blocked for the sunroof = NOPE

Under the skuttle to see if there is anything around the bulkhead Blocked = NOPE

Also apparently under the arches there is a drain hole somewhere that just needs a good blast with a jet wash to clear which I thought I had done ?

Ive looked at stripping the doors down to see if the membrane has decided to loosen itself therefor allowing water in,but no it seems all ok .

And last 1 is Steering Wheel Gromit ????

Please can someone help cheers ! Alister

Try searching for leaking doors, well known problem

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ih i have the same problem if you get to the problem can you let me know been on to skoda uk and other garages also my own local garage and haven,t been able to fix it yet so can you keep my in the loop on this please thanks george collins

Seriously I'm pretty sure this has been covered many times and sorted, in going to get some links sorted out seeing as no one else has bothered searching

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http://www.briskoda.net/forums/index.php?/topic/146504-Water-in-footwells

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Just searched it and it mainly comes down to the butyl factory seal has aged around the membrane so the only way forward is to strip the door card off and reseal with new butyl and see if it stops leaking Fingers crossed :think:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/index.php?/topic/107928-Help-help-floor-very-wet!!-Help-help

Just take the door card off and seal around the edges of the inner partition with some sealant

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Here is a step by step guide including pictures for a leaking door repair from octavia vrs.com.

http://octavia-vrs.com/cms/content/leaking-door-carriers

Edited 22 November, 201213 yr by themul

When I had MkII golfs, they had rubbish polythene membranes that would go eventually but was much easier to see when failed cos the bottom of the door cards themselves would tend to get wet too. For years I tried all sorts of things but eventually I cracked a method that worked perfectly and never seemed to fail with time so can anyone tell me if this would work with the Octy (mike, i'm mainly looking at you here cos you've seen the other side of the carrier once it's been drilled off...)??

I got a sheet of polythene, placed it INSIDE the entire door so that it simply flapped around freely, pushed it up and over the gap at the top where the window goes up & down and gaffa taped it on the top edge of the door, the bit where you'd probably rest your arm on the front if the window was down. I made sure that it was wide enough to cover the entire width of the internal door and then sat in the bottom of the door itself. With it poking out the window aperture at the top, you could move it around and adjust it until it was in exactly the right place to tape it down to the top edge.

Simple & cheap, but effective and pretty much bulletproof as a study in design!

The only downside is that there's cables and bolts and whatnot that potentially go through the sheet at various points, and I don't know what the inside of the door itself looks like to work out how feasible the above would be, but in the golf, all I did was poke small holes where the bolts to secure the window carrier to the frame went and basically used a bit of commoon sense and I never had a leak again! From memory, the golf cables could all go on the inside of the sheet so no worries and a cross section ended up looking like: outer door skin, window, polythene sheet, cables, inner door skin. ALL water that came in simply ran down the sheet, into the bottom of the door and out through the drainage holes, and trust me, MkII golfs are one of the WORST cars for door leaks as it's an awful design after the inital membrane breaks with age!

Hope that makes sense??

Oh, meant to add, when replaced, the top of the door card hides where the polythene pops out the window aperture. Must do, otherwise you'd have a metal edge at the top on the interior, which one doesn't. Simples.

Just to reiterate, the key point here is that the polythene sheet sits ALL THE WAY to the bottom of the door and near the drainage holes so there's no chance of water creeping out anywhere else. The OEM fitting, I presume, just covers the hole/aperture so when it goes, bingo, you've got a plastic sheet begging to divert water into the car.

Only difference as far as I can see is that my way doesn't look particularly tight and swish if you remove the door cards to be able to see it, but I couldn't give a blinking flip if it does the job better than something that looks pretty WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE CAR IN PIECES.

(glad i've got a rivetting tool from the market if mine goes though! )

Edited 23 November, 201213 yr by blackspaven

Its come to light now that the top of the drivers A Post is P**S wet through so I thought it could be the the drain holes for the sunroof blocked poored some water down and it just sat there ?????? tried a thin wire but no success , stripped the drivers mud guard off and found loads of leaves and rubbish behind there so I thought yeay Ive found the problem removed it and saw a little black bung for the bottom drainage hole so I removed it and had a poke around but nothing more there . Also could it be the door seal thats not right ?????

Please can someone help before I end chucking money away at the stealers ! THANKS

I had this in my Mk1 Fabia VRS and it was a main in the hole was the ancillary door carriers as suggested and linked to guides above. I did the one door that had gone took ages to get car fully dried out and about a week later other side went lol But once sorted I soaked up all I could with towels news paper etc and on a 9 hour drive I left heater on full whack at floors all way and kept windows open a bit to let it out and regulate heat for me. Worked a treat I used £1 all weather gutter sealant from a pound shop and a cartridge gun also in there for £1. If you open doors and feel the bottom of door cards where they touch the metal of the door and its all wet you know what it is for sure.

Also happened in an old Golf of mine after I had bought a new car and it sat for about a month was a 3cm deep puddle in passenger rear foot well that I didn't notice until someone was test driving it and braked it washed over the step in floor and splashed me! My dure for that old heap was to get a screw driver set it in foot well and hit with hammer straight through where there was nothing underneath (was a £300 car)

The important development here is that the top of the A pillar is wet.

Door carrier seals are a common issue on the Octavia, and whilst these often result in wet carpets this issue wouldn't result in water ingress through the tops of the doors.

The only related issue I can remember is when the supply to the rear washer (which runs above the passenger side doors above the headlining) split and this resulted in a wet back seat/carpets.

In this particular case the car has a sunroof which is a rare option on the Octavia - my money is a blocked drain pipe. If you've poured water over the closed sunroof and no water drains out through from behind the front wheel arch then this is your problem.

If a quick poke from the top and another poke from the bottom doesn't reveal a blockage then I reckon you'll need to start removing internal trim.

One last check would be to squeeze the door seals down at the bottom. If water spurts out of the drain holes then this means the seals are holding water. When the door is closed it squashes the seals and forces some of that water into the car and onto the carpets.

Thanks for all ur elp very appreciated

Yep, had a driver's side leak in my car. blasted out the sunroof drain holes (think I actually lent over and gave a forceful puff of air in the drain hole with my mouth!) and i've not had wet carpets since, although i can only guess that that was it.

The sunroof does have quite a seemingly rubbish way of draining in that the water runs down a small metal plate thing which just 'rests' into the drainage tube! You can see it if you peel away the top of the door seal and peer between the roof lining and the roof itself. It's quite bizarre, and when I opened the roof and poured water into the side channels, I found it couldn't cope with that amount of water and the excess ran..... down the A pillar! If this is what's happeneing, it might explain your problem.

AFAIK, the tube to the rear washer is above the headlining on the NEARSIDE, and I only remember this cos when searching for answers myself, I was able to rule out this splitting and leaking cos I was getting a wet driver's side carpet, NOT the other side. I think it's more common for the split to occur around the b pillar as well, although I might be wrong.

Edited 25 November, 201213 yr by blackspaven

cheers , after a closer inspection i believe the drainage pipes may have split or or come off somehow , so I'm taking it too work tomorrow to strip the headlining completely and have a good search will update tomorrow if we find anything ! :think:

Headlining dropped a little bit fiddly but not a difficult job, on closer inspection we were able to access the the drainage pipe off the sunroof which yep had come off and was blocked the drainage pipe comes out from inside the door just before the arch, by using some thin wire doubled up we removed the blockage and wallop a fair amount of water shot out, the same was applied to the passenger side because that also was blocked. next was the long job of sucking the water out of the carpets and drying those along with the wet headlining. Now for a few days its having the heaters on full pelt to dry out the carpets further and yes this will really annoy SWMBO .

a little bit of patience has saved a rather hefty labour charge via the dealers me thinks !

Result, nice one!

Headlining dropped a little bit fiddly but not a difficult job, on closer inspection we were able to access the the drainage pipe off the sunroof which yep had come off and was blocked the drainage pipe comes out from inside the door just before the arch, by using some thin wire doubled up we removed the blockage and wallop a fair amount of water shot out, the same was applied to the passenger side because that also was blocked. next was the long job of sucking the water out of the carpets and drying those along with the wet headlining. Now for a few days its having the heaters on full pelt to dry out the carpets further and yes this will really annoy SWMBO .

a little bit of patience has saved a rather hefty labour charge via the dealers me thinks !

If you get some really hot water bottles and put them under the carpet they make a huge difference in drying the carpet up, need to change the water in them after a few hours but does speed up the drying process.

lol, I went a different route and took the entire carpet out to dry in the sun! It was about an hour's labour to get everything out, which is ridiculous since a Skoda garage will quote you that just to get out the jumbo box! I've got it down to around about 10 minutes now. It's actually the padding underneath that retains most of the moisture, I just wanted to make sure I could put summat on them to prevent them going mouldy as there was an odd smell which until I felt the carpets I thought was the dog.

de humidifer purchased along with my wet/dry hoover from work has worked a treat , the little de humid was only £2.99 from morrisons one of those ones used in caravans and motor homes, luckily no nasty smell as of yet

lol, I went a different route and took the entire carpet out to dry in the sun! It was about an hour's labour to get everything out, which is ridiculous since a Skoda garage will quote you that just to get out the jumbo box! I've got it down to around about 10 minutes now. It's actually the padding underneath that retains most of the moisture, I just wanted to make sure I could put summat on them to prevent them going mouldy as there was an odd smell which until I felt the carpets I thought was the dog.

Sun? Remind me, what does that look like again? :-/

hi if its the mk1 its the rubber at the bottom of the door needs cleaned but if its the mk2 its the dranage holes on the bottom i made my holes biger and my cars been dry now for three years hope this helps