I have a 2010 Octavia estate, last week the rear wash stopped producing water to the rear screen.  The pump is running, but no water.  After a little fiddling about I’ve discovered that the top of the inside of nearside locker in the back of the estate becomes wet.  See Photo.

I’ve found a post on here going back to 2009 with a similar problem.  However that original post refers to the hatchback version and the hatchback has a very different rear screen washer setup to an estate.  I did find a passing reference to the estate being different, but the link posted no longer works.

So my questions:

1. Am I right in hoping that there’s a connector that’s probably come undone above the nearside locker, given that it’s the top of that locker that gets wet after trying the rear wash?
2.  If so, is it a case of removing a large number of pieces of trim the only way to get to it?
3. Has anyone done this who could talk me through which pieces of trim need to be removed and in what order?

A video would have been perfect but I’ve trawled YouTube in vain, so I’m posting here and hoping for some help.

Thank you in anticipation.

There are several joints held together by plastic connectors, they're the same on both the hatchback and estate i.e. weak and brittle over time.

 

The wet boot carpet confirms that each time you operate the rear wash you're filling the boot with screen wash.

 

So yes, a failed connector is highly likely to be the probable cause and yes the boot side carpet needs removing to properly access and repair the connector.

 

There will be some subtle differences with the way the carpet is fixed between the hatch and estate, but they'll also be a lot of similarities. Buy yourself some trim removal tools...

 

 

There will probably be a good degree of similarity with other VAG estates too...

 

 

Thank you Silver1011.

 

A job for next weekend!