Hi, has anybody noticed the lower edge of their windscreen going a milky white colour? I have an Octavia 2 on an 04 plate and it is exhibiting this problem. According to various specialists (who all say the same thing) it is due to the rubber trim (which secures the scuttle trim panel) trapping moisture and dirt, thus keeping the edge of the screen wet and allowing moisture creep up the laminated layers.

Quote by Slivershield: Your front windscreen consists of 2 layers of glass sandwiching a layer of polyvinyl buterol. The layers are parting and the milkiness is caused by the reaction of moisture on the PVB. The milkiness will gradually spread but is no danger to you untill it spreads into the wiper zone when it becomes an MOT failure. Replacement is the only rectification.

Quote by Autoglass: From your description the problem with your windscreen is call delamination. This is caused when water penetrates the layer of plastic in-between the layers of glass on your windscreen.

Going to have a word with dealer / Skoda about it.

Yes, got exactly the same thing. Didn't realise it is likely to spread though.:(

I think if you drop by SCN and have a read on there they are having similar problems with the Altea.

It definitely sounds like delamination and happened on our old AX. Not a problem on the Fab, yet, though.

I had this on my former car ( Audi 80 B4 )

It was a common problem with that type of car, caused

by the torsion of the chassis through torque influence ...

Mine's doing this, but along the bottom edge.