Hi All

 

Newbie on the forum and a first time poster 🙂

 

I’ve got a 2016 Octavia Estate that the rear washer suddenly stopped working on - as in, I was skooshing away last week and fluid stopped coming out even though I could hear the pump and the front washer still worked ok.

 

I did the usual spot of googling to find that it’s a fairly common problem and reading a few posts, decided to check the boot / spare wheel well for fluid.  Right enough, the spare wheel area was flooded with screen wash.

 

I’ve started trying to remove the rear trim in the boot to get at the pipework but I’m scared to try and force anything off in case it breaks.  There are 3 screws on the left side, 2 x under the shopping bag hook things and a 3rd further on.  I also took the 2 push pins and 2 hex screw things out of the piece of trim that runs along the bit where the boot catch is.

 

Struggled to find a suitable youtube video on how to remove the trim undamaged and don’t know if I really need any tools.  Noticed that some folks were using trim removal tools but they might not be essential.

 

Would appreciate any advice.  Intend to make a video to post to youtube when I get to the bottom of it.

 

Cheers

Mine is actually leaking from the rear spoiler (greenline estate) and it will leak down to the wheel well eventually.

Have you seen fluid leaking from that location?

I’ve not seen anything leaking that high up or in the area of the brake light under the rear spoiler where the washer outlet is.  The carpet on the left of the inside of the boot is wet and I can feel that the foam stuff under the carpet on the left side inside the boot is wet.

 

it looks like the pipe that services the rear skoosher runs behind the trim on the nearside of the boot and goes up to the brake light assembly through a flexi hose that you can see with the boot up.

I took off the trim from inside the rear hatch/door inside.  Eventually I was able to see a 90 degree bend in the pipe that feed up to the washer in the spoiler.  I fooled the car into thinking boot was closed by flicking the lock, and operated the rear wash, it was leaking from above the 90 degree bend in my case, and it would find it's way down to the wheel well.

 

Might be easier to check this area, to rule it out as you can get access to that easier than removing the side trim.

I’ll check that tomorrow.

 

Was there a 90° elbow coupler that the pipe had popped out of in your case?  Was it nearer to the left / nearside of the boot door or did you have stuff leaking down at both the left and right side?

Found this youtube video for removing the trim.  The washer outlet on that one is at the left of the light whereas mine is on the right:

 

 

Decided that pulling the rubber gromit off the inside of the boot and skooshing the rear washer while it was off was a better way of ascertaining if the leak was from the boot door or in the boot itself.  The flexi hose area inside the gromit was bone dry and stayed bone dry after running the washer but screenwash appeared inside the boot next to the carpet trim on the left.

 

I’m now back where I started and looking for advice on removing those internal trim/carpet sections.

Morning,

 

Did you have any success with removing this trim at all?

 

I have a rear reversing camera I want to fit but when doing my dashcam for the rear I found this piece of trim to put up a fair fight, I removed all the screws I could find which look to be the same as you.

 

Thanks,

 

Nick

Hi Nick

 

i’ve not gone back to it yet and was hoping for another response here.  I did find an old post with a set of octavia service manuals in it but the link was broken and I’ve not started scouring the net for those yet.

 

sorry I can’t be more help.  I’ll post back here if i find a solution.

 

cheers

I might have a go at mine this weekend if the rain holds off.

 

I have the variable boot floor in mine and the Canton amp, whether that makes it harder or easier I don't know!

 

If I have any success I to will let you know.

@sutra so I had a crack at this over the weekend due to the nice weather, I was retrofitting an RVC.

 

In the link below are pictures of what I needed to remove to remove the trim, you'll also see there is a join in the washer pipe right about where yours appears to be leaking (from your photo).

 

I removed the rear boot trim that has the boot latch on it and the rear pillar trim, also the rear bench and the trim that goes over the wheel arch as this allowed for the trim to be pushed out of the way.

 

There are 4 fixings, two with the fold out luggage hooks, one behind the rear pillar trim and the other where the rear shelf inserts.

I also had to remove the two netting hooks and finally using a spline bit the lashing point right behind the rear seat, I pictured this separately as it has a cover hiding the bolt.

 

You'll need to remove the rear luggage light as well, when I started to remove the trim piece I worked it from the rear over the lashing eye/loop fixed to the chassis.

At this point I was able to reach in and disconnect the 12v socket, finally I had to lift the trim over where the seatbelt exits the trim.

 

I wrapped the seatbelt round the rear seat that was folded down and this allowed me to move the trim far enough away to work comfortably, if you wanted to remove it completely you'd need to undo the seatbelt from the rear bench.

 

Hope this helps, I think the fixing you were missing is hiding behind the rear pillar trim.

 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/cEhR4N78kabEt3Au8