Yeah, but when you open a back door on the estate the water rolls in onto the seats, I suppose the same applies to the hatchback

Had a quick look this morning [car covered with rain] and it is a bit odd because the channel below the window curves well down to the sides. Water there ought to run off into the side channels of the "boot" opening. It must be that surface tension keeps the water in the slot below the glass till it is disturbed by the movement of lifting the hatch.

So I guess that it only works okay if it rains detergent.

Did they not fix it on the Octy 2 then?

No not fixed on OctyII!! Got mine last week and couldn't believe how much water comes in!! Last car I saw that did this was the Puma (and before that, Capri)!

Know where ur comming from Jenny, perhaps the estate would have been better for kid & dog, but...... Just didn't want to have to admit that I needed a car for the increasingly frequent "days out" that end up in Ikea/B&Q/Focus/Homebase etc!

The trouble is, the more space you have the more stuff you seem to have to get to fill it! OMG that means.......there must be a hill and I am about to go over it!

Grumpy old Gits thread needed!

Will try the silicone strip trick; just need a bank holiday weekend to ensure rain!!

By the way, where do you get a strip of silicone rubber from? Please don't tell me it's Ikea, B&Q, Focus or Homebase etc, but I guess it's likely to be one of them!

TTFN

Mine doesn't anymore

I put some clear silicon seal (bathroom type) along the bottom of the window.

And there was me thinking it was just mine that did it!

Can you explain where you actually put the sealant on the window?

Ta.

No not fixed on OctyII!! Got mine last week and couldn't believe how much water comes in!! Last car I saw that did this was the Puma (and before that' date=' Capri)!

Know where ur comming from Jenny, perhaps the estate would have been better for kid & dog, but...... Just didn't want to have to admit that I needed a car for the increasingly frequent "days out" that end up in Ikea/B&Q/Focus/Homebase etc!

The trouble is, the more space you have the more stuff you seem to have to get to fill it! OMG that means.......there must be a hill and I am about to go over it!

Grumpy old Gits thread needed!

Will try the silicone strip trick; just need a bank holiday weekend to ensure rain!!

By the way, where do you get a strip of silicone rubber from? Please don't tell me it's Ikea, B&Q, Focus or Homebase etc, but I guess it's likely to be one of them!

TTFN[/quote']

2 options, you can use clear silicone from a builders merchants in a gun, the type you use for sealling round kitchen units etc & also used as a sealer on greenhouses but this is a pig to get smooth if your cack handed like me & will possibly go yellowish with age (sunlight effect etc)

Other option is to buy some solid rubber strip, I bought round, from memory about 3 or 4 mm dia, I simply trawled through the yellow pages for a local company that do rubber extrusions & it was only a few pence a Metre, I actually bought several sizes to experiment with, couple of tips when putting it in, coat it with silicone to help it go in, WD40 would work as well & secondly leave it slightly over length for a few days, if you have stretched it to get it in it might shrink back over a few days & it looks tacky if you have a small gap at the end

oooooh hrrr!!!! all these sugestions,thanks anyway!! think id be abit dangerous with a silicone gun,good with hair not the DIY.. il just av to wipe it off , and ope it stops raining! it ant stopd raining since i bought the car.. Boo Hooo

2 options' date=' you can use clear silicone from a builders merchants in a gun, the type you use for sealling round kitchen units etc & also used as a sealer on greenhouses but this is a pig to get smooth if your cack handed like me & will possibly go yellowish with age (sunlight effect etc)

Other option is to buy some solid rubber strip, I bought round, from memory about 3 or 4 mm dia, I simply trawled through the yellow pages for a local company that do rubber extrusions & it was only a few pence a Metre, I actually bought several sizes to experiment with, couple of tips when putting it in, coat it with silicone to help it go in, WD40 would work as well & secondly leave it slightly over length for a few days, if you have stretched it to get it in it might shrink back over a few days & it looks tacky if you have a small gap at the end[/quote']

Can we see some pictures? Im not sure I know exactly where you mean...

Cheers, LP

I think that in light of the fact they knew it was a problem on the Octy I and they didn't fix it they should be issuing a new, redesined rubber surround for the windscreen with a piece that fills that channel in created at the bottom. They should then replace it on all Octy II's (And i'd love it on the MK I also).

This is very poor in my opinion.

2 options' date=' you can use clear silicone from a builders merchants in a gun, the type you use for sealling round kitchen units etc & also used as a sealer on greenhouses but this is a pig to get smooth if your cack handed like me & will possibly go yellowish with age (sunlight effect etc)

Other option is to buy some solid rubber strip, I bought round, from memory about 3 or 4 mm dia, I simply trawled through the yellow pages for a local company that do rubber extrusions & it was only a few pence a Metre, I actually bought several sizes to experiment with, couple of tips when putting it in, coat it with silicone to help it go in, WD40 would work as well & secondly leave it slightly over length for a few days, if you have stretched it to get it in it might shrink back over a few days & it looks tacky if you have a small gap at the end[/quote']

Top Tip:thumbup: ! Guess I know what I will be doing next week! It would great to think that they would mod the rear screen, but I guess we know that it would cost too much, (Ford never bothered with the Capri or Puma) but who knows! So for the time being silicone strip here we come!

A suggestion woulld be a v small strip of the bath sealing silicon replacement strip in clear or black. Means you can get it out if you want to as silicon often looks like a bad repair job.

I've got this problem on my mk1 I can't believe they didn't fix it for the mk 2. Anyway heres my plan (not done it yet)

1) do the silicone trick but use masking tape (low tac) to prevent getting it every where.

2) get some of that rainex treatment you usually use on windscreens and do the back, hopfully less water will stay on the glass to run into the car.

thankfully i took out my cd chander as I have an MP3 headunit and i dont have speakers in the OEM positions I've got 6x9s on the parcel shelf far enough in that they dont get wet.

Talk about a thread from the dead!