Hi All,

 

My MK3 Octavia VRS estate has been standing for 10 days in the British rain while I was in Spain. Driving this morning I could hear water sloshing about in the boot. When I stopped I open the boot for what seemed like about 2ltrs of water to run down the sides from behind the tailgate trim and on to the boot floor.

 

I've had a few drips previously but never this much. Can't see anywhere obvious this may be getting in and rear washer seems to be working fine.

 

Any ideas?

I've heard of it filling up in the doors, but not the tailgate. 

 

Has the tailgate glass ever been replaced? Maybe its leaking in?

 

My hatch is at Birmingham airport outside, so expect my doors might be filling up....lol

I'm the second owner so can't vouch for the rear screen. Nothing seems out of place from what I can see and everything seems aligned.

Shouldnt this run out? 

 

You could maybe test this by pouring water yourself?

Not a bad idea. Woke up this morning wondering if it may be due to the incline of my drive. My drive goes down hill from back to the front of the car. Maybe water has drained in some how after standing in all the rain? I'll see how it goes with the back pointing down hill. Doesn't seem like an issue many have had.

I park mine front down on my steep drive. the front doors fill , watch out while opening. The out sides of the tail gate opening seal gets full but boot/ load area remain dry ( if driven to flat road first) . I did wonder at first if it would leak over but all ok.

I have parked other way and found no water in doors or boot.

Sorry not much help to you. I did use a bit of vasaline on seal . Did that on my old merc and it fixed that boot leak.

Peter

17 hours ago, glosrich said:

 

My hatch is at Birmingham airport outside, so expect my doors might be filling up....lol

 

Did you go in the Fabia glosrich

No that happened in 2007 when Gloucestershire flooded...lol

2 hours ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

Did you go in the Fabia glosrich

 

I have seen this problem in a mk2 superb, this was due to the boot seal being torn where the water was running through the seal. 

So I've just opened my Mrk4 octavia and had water run down from behind the black plastic trim, did any one find any fixes before I pull the trim off the this weekend to investigate ?

Check if bottom part of the boot has drain holes, possibly they are blocked.

I'll start with that in the morning, pain in the arse having to wait for the day lighting working on the drive. Thanks bud

Just now, RattleWagon said:

Check if bottom part of the boot has drain holes, possibly they are blocked.

 

Three options - lights on the boot, the rear screen seal and the rear wiper grommet (the latter was the issue on my Kodiaq.

Good tip about the wiper motor seal, thanks.

 

I have some tailgate water ingress, a small water drip from behind the plastic trim when I fully open the yeti tailgate.

 

I asked the SKODA dealer about my car being a bit steamy and he reacted very strangely - I think he thought the water was just coming in through the pan sunroof (as per normal) and did not want to go there 😂
 

It’s like the door seal is making poor contact because there’s always wetness on the full seal face at one top corner. The seal is not damaged or misshapen.
 

I’m going to try draft seal first then consider replacing the boot seal entirely.  Seals Direct offer a huge range of seals and are very helpful. 

 

And I plan to avoid areas of major flooding.