washing my car last week, noticed a rust blister appearing on boot lid, took it to dealers, its now booked in for full boot lid respray on 7th of august, washed it again tonight and noticed another 5 rust blisters starting on the boot lid... not impressed, the fabia is not even 2 year old yet....

black magic 54 plate fabia vrs .

Where are they? Along the bottom edge of the rear screen?

5 along same part of boot as the skoda badge and one down beside the number plate

Maybe something happened at the original respray during manufacture? I had a wing start rusting like this, and further investigation found evidence of a previous scrape, and a rather dodgy "filler" repair. All fixed now though.

Why do you say "during manufacture"? Isn't that more likely a bit of delivery damage which the dealer failed to disclose after doing a dodgy repair on it?

Could be in manufacture. Dont know if it still goes on, but panels used to be reworked if damaged in pressing and then used. Also possible is defective steel. I was surprised at how high a percentage of cars are repaired in some way before the customer gets them new.

Chris

Well, if the rust appears in what looks like perfect paint, i.e no scratches/marks, then I could only assume something got in there during the painting / curing process.

I had a small rust spot at the bottom edge of the rear screen. I think that the previous owner had been a little to violent with the ice scraper, and chipped the paint. That is atleast my theory...but Skoda payed for a respray, so no biggie.