hi ,i have just purchased a 1.3 felicia clasic w reg, the drivers footwell is wet, as is sponge /carpet high up ,gratefull for any ideas,thank you:thumbup:

it might be the heater matrix up behind the dahboard leaking

WINDSCREEN !!! leaking windscreen seal was a "standard" option on most facelift Felicia's ! Might be worth checcking fuse board for water damage,they also can suffer.

If yours has the factory fit sun roof check around that - the headlining will be wet if there's a problem here.

A lot of water can get in this way, and it finds its way into the footwell.

It is an absolute pain to sort properly, and if you leave it too long the screws rust up and you need a new one fitted.

A good sunroof specialist is the cheapest option (compared to a Skoda dealer).

silicone it up^

I have the same problem....

It would seem that the windscreen seal, around the bottom corners, is the most likely candidate based on previous threads.

I have some black, flexible sealant which I plan to try pumping into the seal during the next period of dry weather.

Hopefully this will cure the problem...and hopefully I haven't left it too long for any rust problems to start.

the water can get past the seal due to crud building up in those corners. I use a makeshift giant tooth pick and hoof the amazing amounts of dirt out on a regular basis ..... errrr about ever 5 months! Anyway no probs. Only the rear screen seems to leak when it wants, smacks of the favorit that i could never cure damn thing. To ensure the rear does not flood the car I've drilled a hole in the spare wheel recess, and thats where it ends up and so goes away before the wheel floats free......... the other felicia did that the thing was full up !!!!! I'd never noticed until it flowed forward and then WTF???

hi ,i have just purchased a 1.3 felicia clasic w reg, the drivers footwell is wet, as is sponge /carpet high up ,gratefull for any ideas,thank you:thumbup:

hi , i had the same problem with my felicia i purchased the black windscreen sealant from halfords the size like is used with a d-i-y sealant gun it cost around £9.00 i pumped it in both glass side and body side of the windscreen rubber making sure that especially the bottom corners are well sealed , i then layered the inside all along the edges above the fuse box with tissue paper checking regular for any signs of water leakage or dampness after any heavy rain and since its been very dry the other thing worth mentioning is to the side of the battery where the wiring enters through into the car i also sealed around there as i was told water can enter there as well as i say my car now seems cured leaking windscreen rubber seal the problem , just like to add that i would like to say thanks again for the helpful advice i received from members of this forum in helping me solve the problem i had , good luck .

yes! i got silicone bath sealant from lidl for 89p. just a pinky-fingertipful pushed into the bottom corner of the windscreen (driver side) totally stopped the pooling in my footwell. fantastic problem to fix!

Just had a look at the seals and pumped sealant into the corners...typically started to rain heavily just after I'd finished so may need to re-apply.

I noticed however that after digging out some old sealant, which had broken up and was ineffective, there is a large gap of about 5mm between the seal and the body frame in the bottom corners which looks likely to be where the water is flowing in....The seals just don't fit correctly!

I also thank everyone for the previous postings helping with this problem.

P.S. I used 'Downes 791' high movement black silicone sealant (cartridge) which cost about £5.00 from a local ironmongers.

took car to rac autoscreen ,got it all sealed ,still leaking ,will have to diy ,thanks for all advice

DIY always the best with a skoda it's why we love them so

really others see them as cheap crap yet they are OUR babes

some time some love we put them right

to seal around the screen wont help if the **** is under the actual seal rubber..... drag the crud out DIY. In the wet it drips in BUT then it heats up ....... remember how hot a car gets and how fast.???? It sucks it in reallly just like that .......... there is the prob.

good luck and forget the so called proffesionals

How's that for a coincidence! I just bought a 2000 1.6GLX from an elderly relative (how cliched is that?) and in replacing the head unit I discovered that the front footwells are full of water. So off to Google I go, and look what the most recent posting in this forum is!

Looks like I'm not alone with this one then... cheers for all the advice.

DIY always the best with a skoda it's why we love them so

really others see them as cheap crap yet they are OUR babes

some time some love we put them right

to seal around the screen wont help if the **** is under the actual seal rubber..... drag the crud out DIY. In the wet it drips in BUT then it heats up ....... remember how hot a car gets and how fast.???? It sucks it in reallly just like that .......... there is the prob.

good luck and forget the so called proffesionals

i have to agree skoda.fr is correct forget the so called proffesionals , i took my felicia to a windscreen company to be sealed and after they had done it it was a lot worse than before i took it , so i carefully scraped out what they had pumped in and did the job myself ( as i explained previous posting ),

making sure corners in particular were sealed result now ok ,

Hi guy

Just done mine most definately the windscreen rubber they were apparently factory fitted with little or no sealer as new therefore in later years causing no end of problems on the leaking front.

The end result being in my case as it wasnt cured untill i got the car mine being a vw caddy pick up although exactly almost the smae vechile the bottom windscreen beam being totally rotted out which required total fabricating to put right not an easy job as it contains many complex angles anyway it was done and a split new screen fitted with new rubbers at a cost of

took car to rac autoscreen ,got it all sealed ,still leaking ,will have to diy ,thanks for all advice

Did they remove the screen and seal? I had mine sealed by autoglass - screen removed, applied sealant and refited - no further problem.

I had water in from the windscreen on my W reg Felicia 1.6Glxi....it went back to the dealer on a few occasions for ever more black sealant to be added to the rubber seal. This black sealant soon degraded and I noted that in fact the sealant was opening the rubber seal possibly allowing more water in.??

After finding the passenger footwell with water above the rubber mat one cold morning with ice on too....I decided to talk direct to Skoda. I believe on the next return a new rubber seal may have been fitted which did seem to improve things.. but still the foam under the dashboard was soggy.

A while later I had a cracked windscreen replaced... and while the mobile fitter was attending to this I asked him about the water ingress.

He whipped out a knife:eek: and cut off 2 bits of the vinyl pillar trim at the bottom corners of the windscreen opening where it in fact folded over the metal edge onto which the rubber seal fits... and showed me 2 holes that were now exposed... drain holes he said, covered by the vinyl. The seal was then fitted dry without sealant.

I was a bit concerned as I had heard a ref' at the dealer previously as to checking that some holes were covered....?? :confused:

But the windscreen fitter assured me that the vinyl at this place was only over there as part of the assembly process and that it definitely covered these drain holes...which allow water that gets in the first seal to get out at the bottom corner.

Anyway.. I seem to get the occasional slight misting of the windscreen if the car is parked in the sun following rain.. but have not touchwood had the return of the soggy foam etc..!!... so a definite improvement it would seem..

So was the windscreen fitter correct to expose these two holes at the bottom corners of the windscreen....????...should they be covered or not....?????

All the best,

Dorimow.

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i would still think a sealant is needed ,if it is misting waters still getting through i dont get any misting ( touch wood ) as i did the job with sealant and without having to remove the windscreen , i would be concerned as i would think over a period of time i would expect some corrosion, i think skoda should do a recall and rectify their obvious blunder .

IHe whipped out a knife:eek: and cut off 2 bits of the vinyl pillar trim at the bottom corners of the windscreen opening where it in fact folded over the metal edge onto which the rubber seal fits... and showed me 2 holes that were now exposed... drain holes he said' date=' covered by the vinyl. The seal was then fitted dry without sealant.

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How big were the bits he cut off?

I've just had a look behind my pillar trim and the only holes I can see are the ones that are used for the trim fixing clips...which are plugged when the trim is fitted.

I'm probably looking in the wrong place. Are the holes inside the windscreen aperture and can only be seen with the windscreen removed?

Hello,

It was with the windscreen and rubber seal removed...the vinyl trim he removed was two short sections that lipped over at the bottom each side. It was over the actual edge that the rubber screen seal locates on... and only visible with the window out...he assured me it was only there to assist in assembly at new..????? No trim was cut that is visible around the window. he then showed me 2 holes that were now open that he suggested that would allow water out that got in past the intial seal...????

Now I actually wonder if this is true....and could it be that rather than the uncovering these 2 holes it was the removal of the vinyl that lipped over the metal lip which helped.. could it have removed an edge that previously allowed water in over the next part of the window rubber seal..hard to explain what I mean here..!!.

I was concerned at the time as I had heard the garage foreman say that he needed to check if some holes where correcvlty covered..!!...so felt the window fitter was about to cause me even more grief.!!

The wet ingress on my W 1.6Glxi was actually made worse by the dealers original application of sealant..

The sealant was applied to the top corner and down the pillars...its action..far from sealing things..seemed to lift the seal of the metal leading to greater water ingress which is when I had a footwell full..!!....with ice at which point I blew a gasket..very politely i might add...to Mr Skoda UK....this got a brand new seal fitted which still gave some trouble....more in light rain than heavy down pour.

Don't go chopping bits of trim on my say so... but since the window fitters trick I have had only slight misting of windows following rain...no damp to be felt on foam....

I am a gardener and tend to get into car with wet muddy boots in inclemant weather....not this summer..!!....and can inadvertantly bring damp in with me on clothing that may cause misting rather than there still being a serious leak.....

I do serious Leeks not leaks...

Clive.

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It was with the windscreen and rubber seal removed...the vinyl trim he removed was two short sections that lipped over at the bottom corner each side. It was over the actual edge that the rubber screen seal locates on... and only visible with the window out...he assured me it was only there to assist in assembly at new..?????

I was concerned at the time as Ihad the garage foreman say that he needed to check if some holes where correcvlty covered..!!...so felt the window fitter was about to cause me even more grief.!!

The wet ingress on my 1.6Glxi was actually made worse by the dealers original application of sealant..

The sealant was applied to the top corner and down the pillars...its action..far from sealing things..seemed to lift the seal of the metal leading to greater water ingress which is when I had a footwell full..!!....with ice at which point I blew a gasket..very politely i might add...to Mr Skoda UK....this got a brand new seal fitted which still gave some trouble....more in light rain than heavy down pour.

Don't go chopping bits of trim on my say so... but since the window fitters trick I have had only slight misting of windows following rain...no damp to be felt on foam....

I am a gardener and tend to get into car with wet muddy boots in inclemant weather....not this summer..!!....and can inadvertantly bring damp in with me on clothing that may cause misting rather than there still being a serious leak.....

I do serious Leeks not leaks...

Clive.[/quote']

Thanks for that....I haven't chopped any bits off as yet!

I am still attempting to cure mine with sealant which seems to have worked on the drivers side but not the passengers.

If yours was fitted dry with no problems then it does seem that the drain holes could be the answer.

I shall keep this in mind should I ever have the screen replaced.

In the meantime perhaps you could suggest some suitable indoor plants for the footwell that can tolerate plenty of watering?

The more I think on this the more I wonder if it may be the vinyl removal...thus removing an edge by which water may have continued further inside..????

Clive.

I think that the problem of the leaking screen is probably a combination of everything that has been said in this thread.....

Dirt under the outside seal helps to lift the seal slightly which allows more water past. This water then hits the second seal and builds up, but can't drain away due to the covered drainage holes....so it ends up finding its way through the poorly sealed corners of the second seal.

...and then there's the door seals and sunroof:)

I had a Lada Niva a while back and the door seals had shrunk. A new door seal rubber was all it needed, before that I had standing water in the passenger footwell that would wash from front to back of the car when accelerating and back again when braking.

By the way, I've always fitted door seals with a small gap at the bottom to let out any water that may run along the seal. (Several of my old cars, including the Niva, had opening quarter light windows in the front door which always trickled water down the inner door surface when it rained so this was good for that.)

My one Felicia has the sunroof glued shut by a previous owner, the other lets water in through the roof if it's parked on a tilt towards the passenger side.

...there is a large gap of about 5mm between the seal and the body frame in the bottom corners which looks likely to be where the water is flowing in....The seals just don't fit correctly!

Just to follow up, then, this sums up exactly what I found. A good blast of silicone sealant to fill the yawning gap in each corner, result - one bone dry Felicia. Three very wet North Wales days proved a valuable test, no ingress whatsoever. Now I've just got to air it out and get rid of the damp smell...

However, I did discover that the sunroof leaks between the glass and the seal - not good when you consider that the seal was replaced just over a year ago. The sunroof itself looks a bit cheap and nasty, with play in the hinges and opening mechanism, so I'm just going to silicone it up and have done.

Thanks again for all the useful advice - think I'll stick around!