Near side rear door has just started to leak big time , into the foot well , a good inch deep overnight in this heavy rain , cant find any sure fire signs or indications . has any body any ideas?

Leaking inner door carrier I would say, common fault on the Octavia. Do a search, there is a fix on here...

funny enough i watched a video the other day of a bloke sealing the inner door panel with silicon sealent its a common problem . you need to take the offending door panel off then you will see a large metal panel you need to apply silicon from about half way up right along the bottom to half way up the other side . try searching on google just put in mk2 octavia leaking doors . and you should find the video

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THANKS VERY MUCH INDEED , I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW I GET ON SHORTLY.

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Is this sorted on new cars?

My grandparents 60 plate greenline octy 2 has same problem been ongoing since they bought it brand new, been in countless times, had 2 new doors fitted, currently going through rejection process and getting a replacement car !!! Dealership have been difficult about it too !!

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Not sure what the answer to that would be , but my car is 11yrs old and has over180,000 mls on the clock , and has hardly given me any problems over the years , I just can,t bear to get rid of it , so now its my second car , which I loan out to friends when they get in a fix!! , just wish I could fix this leaking problem . Would buy another.

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My grandparents 60 plate greenline octy 2 has same problem been ongoing since they bought it brand new, been in countless times, had 2 new doors fitted, currently going through rejection process and getting a replacement car !!! Dealership have been difficult about it too !!

Name and shame dealership, after your grandparents have got the replacement of course. Have they contacted Skoda UK as part of rejection process?

as far as i am aware Skoda UK have been good about it but from what my granda tells me the dealership (one of the largest uk chains) keep telling skoda that they can fix it, so they have to travel 30 miles to drop the car off for the day, drive home with it and the next time it rains back to square one. I will ask him next time i call see where they got up to in the end, i know it went quiet over the last couple of weeks with the hols.

Dunno if it'll help, but... you need a rivet gun/machine to be able to refit the metal carrier if you take it off a MkII, but I have a theory that if you do that and tape a piece of polythene to the top edge of the door, inside the carrier area, just letting it flap free so any water ingress hits it and drops to the bottom, it'll sort it easily. Used to do it in my MkII golf which are notorious for doing this and see no reason why it wouldn't work in an Octy having seen the door innards with the metal carrier off in pictures. Only reason a manufacturer wouldn't do it is cos it looks a bit messy/ugly/bodged UNTIL you get the door card back on and then you can't see it anymore.

If mine goes, it's what i'll be trying out. There's quite a lot of people on here who have stated the sealant thing doesn't work over a period of time and you end up with the same old problem as the sealant gives up the ghost. The polythene thing means the water never even touches the inner door or carrier so it never gets the chance to leak.

Guide with pics here for ancillary carrier if its leaking. I had this issue on back door of a 06 Mk1 Fabia VRS fixed it was all happy took a long drive heating on full recird with air con to help dry it out did the trick. A month later other side went, sods law. Fix worked for me though.

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

I can assure you that this is only a temporary fix. Tried this on both the Leons we had, and it wasn't permanent by any means. The only way of sorting it properly is to take the carrier out of the door frame and reseal with new butyl tape, available of ebay.

There's no point in even trying this -- yes it works for a bit, and the car has chance of drying out, but why risk getting the car wet inside again for the sake of not doing the door job properly the first time? For that matter, a roll of butyl tape won't cost much more than a couple of tubes of silicon or bathroom sealers, there's no waste that squirts out, and it's a damn sight cleaner and more pleasant to work with. And you don't need to wait for the butyl to cure, so instant repair with no smell.

Mike

Mine lasted for just over 2 years then I sold car on but went through some bad winters I just used gutter sealant from a pound shop was really tacky and made for outdoor and -30 odd so seemed like a good idea at time. First attempt on first door to leak was not as successful with another more expensive sealant. Left panels off for it to set for a few days made sure it was 110% dry first. I would have removed carrier itself but the thing was riveted on and I didn't fancy that. A guy in work had a 2004 Leon had same problem he never got his sorted for long. But what a idiotic fault thats been coming out of these cars unaddressed for years!

I can assure you that this is only a temporary fix. Tried this on both the Leons we had, and it wasn't permanent by any means. The only way of sorting it properly is to take the carrier out of the door frame and reseal with new butyl tape, available of ebay.

There's no point in even trying this -- yes it works for a bit, and the car has chance of drying out, but why risk getting the car wet inside again for the sake of not doing the door job properly the first time? For that matter, a roll of butyl tape won't cost much more than a couple of tubes of silicon or bathroom sealers, there's no waste that squirts out, and it's a damn sight cleaner and more pleasant to work with. And you don't need to wait for the butyl to cure, so instant repair with no smell.

Mike

I'd LOVE to see the inside of a door with the metal carrier drilled off cos if it's as I think it is from past VAG car experiences, my solution would be a guaranteed lifetime fix. Just know it from doing my golf, but it depends solely on what's behind that carrier.

Guess i'll wait until mine goes.

I totally agree, surely something tells them there's a problem if it's very regularly happened on Skoda, VW, Audi and Seats!

Mike

Guys, this has been a problem since the MkII golf... and that was introduced in 1983!! Annoyingly, my mum's old '86 Peugeot 309 was built with the metal of the door manufactured in such a way that it was virtually impossible for water to come in unless you bunged up the holes on the bottom and the doors unbelieveably filled with a good 4 inches of water to the inside lip and spilt over! Made working on the innards a bit awkward but you NEVER got water ingress.

1986!!

I totally agree, surely something tells them there's a problem if it's very regularly happened on Skoda, VW, Audi and Seats!

Mike

What, this is a known problem with Audis as well, surely not!

Is this sorted on new cars?

Unfortunately not, I have never heard of any changes to the door cards, VAG have used that rubbish foam stuff for years, I had it on a 2001 SEAT Leon which leaked like a sieve.

I'd see a doctor if my back door was leaking.