Just wondered if the later models which had riveted on carriers were more susceptible to the rear door leaks than the earlier models which had bolts holding the carrier on.

 

Link to DRJ's excellent pictorial guide to fixing the problem

Mine has bolts, thusfar no leaks.

Rivets here (05 reg), and all four doors have leaked.  Rear two now done with Plumber's Gold, front two pending (much less leaky).

Old vRS had rivets. LHT took two attempts and failed miserably. An hour with some silicone and I sorted it myself.

My old fabia had bolts and used to leak. :/

My old 2005 (June) Fabia VRS has rivets that keep the window mechanism in situ in the rear.

I was lucky, they didn't start leaking at rear doors till car was nearly 8 years old.

Clean edges (especially at the bottom of riveted window mechanism) and whack on the silicone mastic.

Job done !!

Interesting, so far twice as many that had issues were riveted (the cheaper manufacturing solution) As it stands, twice as many were riveted as opposed to bolted. (8 riveted Vs 4 bolted)

 

Could future responders please state your cars year of manufacture as I'm at the moment unsure what year the change from bolts to rivets happened but I think it was mid 2004.

2007 Fabia vRS - rivets. Leaks to both rear doors done under warranty. The left door still leaked after 2 repairs at which stage Skoda UK authorised the replacement of the door carrier. The door subsequently leaked again due to a poor rivetting by the dealer.

2005 vrs rivets.

Leaks both rear.

Front left carrier removed, repaired

55 plate, rivets

so far two thirds have rivets and one third are bolted  :think:

52 plate, bolts 3 doors have leaked

06 - rivets.

Only had one side leaking but did the fix on both, used tiger seal. This was a year ago and still no leaks.

mine is 06,

rivets,l

after i bought the car noticed it was leaking from the rear door offside, checked nearside and it had been repaired by previous owner. no leaks at present and i changed both door cards as they was smelling of damp.

06 plate fixed my drivers side rear. Was rivets

2no 54 plate Fabias,

vRS both rear doors and front passenger doors fixed at 70k which was when the

damp condensationetc had become too much to ignore.

SDI both front doors, fixed at 120k as above when too much to ignore.

All rivets.

2007 plate vRS, mine were rivets.... Bloody big ones at that!

Could future responders please state your cars year of manufacture as I'm at the moment unsure what year the change from bolts to rivets happened but I think it was mid 2004.

 Mine's a 54 plate, registered September 2004 iirc. It has rivets which leaked, So I imagine you're about right with mid 2004 for the change over.

I see a couple of things happening here with the results; Most responders seem to own a vRS which came out in 2003. Most MkI Fabias at the MegaMeet were MkI Fabia vRS' which suggests not many non vRS owners are on Briskoda so this would sway the results.

 

I'd be interested to see more pre 2004 owners reply and see how the results stack up then.

x plate (feb 2001.....build date sept 2000.............has bolts and yes the rears (not the fronts so far) have leaked and have been fully sorted!

W Reg 2000 , has bolts, O/S rear leaked so sealed all 4 no probs since

1.4 16v 2000 used to leak ALOT in the rear doors, all riveted and after sealing it is still dripping !