Today I decided to check my tyre pressures including the spare wheel. When I removed the spare to check it there was quite a bit of water in the spare wheel well. All old cars leak to a certain extent and I am not worried about it . I know that the Jazz I had previously had a problem with water ingress under the roof trims and it gathered in the spare wheel well. I never had bother with mine until I came to remove the tools before the car went off for scrap when there was water evident.

What I am wondering is there any known spots to check or is it just a case of the hatch seal and around the tail lights. I just pumped it out and dried it with kitchen towel before tucking a 1 Kg silica gel pack in the tool moulding. There is no rust in the well and the trim in the boot space is clean and dry. Any suggestions?

Loads of threads in this section on the subject.

Rear lights, rear flaps stick, and the rear hatch seal.

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

15 minutes ago, toot said:

Loads of threads in this section on the subject.

Rear lights, rear flaps stick, and the rear hatch seal.

 

True but what are the words to use in the Search, I was looking as you posted but have given up now as I just can't think of the magic words or phrasing to get to the threads I know I've seen.  I find this with searches, sometimes I can find what I want other times not at all, even if I've posted so know it's there.  😄

  

Edited 13 January, 20233 yr by nta16
ETA: Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

'Catch phrase'   say what you see.

As suggested start with the hatch seal check it's fitted correctly and you can remove the seal run a bead of silicon around the hatch edge and refit the seal, rear lights can also cause this issue as it only uses a sponge type gasket which is very poor, don't use a sealant as you will not get the lens housing back off without breaking if you need to do a bulb change,I bought a 1mm sheet of rubber of the bay and cut the shape out then used a silicone grease smearered over the rubber and refitted housing job done, it can also be the wiring loom seal that goes into the hatch needs to be resealed failing that drill a drain hole through one of the lead/rubber seals in the boot wheel well space allowing the water to run out+

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

1 hour ago, toot said:

'Catch phrase'   say what you see.

🤣 🤣 I was using the Search here, top of page, and getting my panties really scrunched.  Having put that I often have problems with our Master Google (that helps to rewrite history by ignorance and helps others to get away with it too, but that's the internet and social media generally).

 

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Four!  Stop it, stop it!  How can you go on?  Four!  Four!'

'How many fingers, Winston?'

'Five!  Five!  Five!'

 

2 hours ago, toot said:

Loads of threads in this section on the subject.

Rear lights, rear flaps stick, and the rear hatch seal.

The first thing I did was search Water in spare wheel well and it found everything but. I have been an active member of  a Jazz forum for six years (I still am) and I know how annoying when new members keep asking the same questions innumerable times without doing a search. But thanks for the search on my behalf. Even doing the search again, a few minutes ago, it  only pulled up my question and not the 2014 answer. I should have just Googled it, as you did, instead of using the site's Search.

When I watched the first Video I realised that my car was valeted about three weeks back, probably with a pressure washer. That may well have been the problem. The hatch seal looks fine but I think I will check the tail lights as that one bolt fixing could easily be the cause.

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

2 hours ago, Jocko said:

I realised that my car was valeted about three weeks back, probably with a pressure washer. That may well have been the problem. The hatch seal looks fine but I think I will check the tail lights as that one bolt fixing could easily be the cause.

If the issues does seem to have come from power washing then you might return a favour by letting Danderhall Cars know this can happen for future reference.

 

I remembered it was something to do with flaps but couldn't their location, and now the next time someone asks I'll remember it's flaps - but not the location. 🥴

 

Mk2 Fabia vRS with the Success Ballast weights so that it is 5kg heavier than a  9 3/4" longer vRS Estate according to Skoda and heavier and slower than the Polo / Ibiza sister cars according to VW Group who cheat.   They went to the expense of designing, manufacturing and fitting while every other manufacturers tried to lighten cars.

But i am OT with my rant, 

 

 so the flaps are below the lights and the cause of many a back end being soggy 

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/379331-water-in-spare-wheel-well

 

 

Edited 13 January, 20233 yr by toot

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

You probably already know for keeping hatch and door seals you can use AutoGlym Bumper & Trim Gel or silicone oil, applied with a 35mm cube of sponge, or use a silicone spray or GT-85.   The GT85 can also be used for the jobs WD-40 is supposed to but the GT85 does them better has PTFE and smells nice, use the WD-40 on garden tools left in the shed over winter.

 

Or if you want to be all VW stuff like one from Krytox range or as they used to recommend a product called Gummi Pflege, which I discovered was just German for Rubber Care.

 

 

 

Please note - I am not a mechanic or expert in anything.

 

3 minutes ago, toot said:

rant, 

Yeah, well, they had to give the VW badge owners something for their "prestige marque" badge.  From 80s onwards I've always though of VWs as overweight, I never understood what the kids saw in Mk2 Golfs by the time they could afford them.

 

I used to work in the High Vacuum industry (Optical coatings and semiconductors) and I I have tube of silicone grease somewhere that you lightly rub on a rubber seal and then pretty well rub off. it is just a very expensive version of the products you mention. I'll dig it out and use that.

I took off my rear bumper today to remove, clean and seal the boot vent flaps as I had water in the wheel well after torrential rain

This thread helped identify the issue thanks

 

@CrucianAre you going to get that Ballast off the crash bar and help the cars handling and traction at the front under acceleration.

Not on the Polo GTI , Ibiza or A1 Twinchargers.

The Polo GTI gets the battery in the boot.     It is there to make the car heavier than the Sister Cars because they are more expensive so had to look as though quicker and to give it a Kerb Weight officially as heavier than the 9 3/4" longer Fabia vRS Estate.   

VW Kidology. 

The sister cars are on 215/40 R 17,s with no spare as standard and the Skoda,s are on 205/40 R 17 and get a spare and tool kit as standard.

Another 20 Kg in the rear. 

 

Ballast not required on the rear of a Mk2 Fabia Monte Carlo 1.6 TDI CR with the same springs.   

 Cost them plenty to manufacture and materials, and put the Fabia Hatch vRS a VED band higher than it needed to be.

 

Every manufacturer were making cars lighter. less paint, less insulation, thinner glass and Skoda / VW took the pith.

Lazy journalists never thought, WTF and lets get them on a weigh bridge or corner scales and ask Skoda or VW why they sandbagged the hatch.

 

 

Edited 9 August, 20232 yr by toot