where do you put the sealant to 'cure' the leaks on the rear doors?

(are the door 'cards' the panels on the inside of the door??)

hope someone can help me with this one !

where do you put the sealant to 'cure' the leaks on the rear doors?

(are the door 'cards' the panels on the inside of the door??)

hope someone can help me with this one !

Theres a guide at Fabia-vrs.com - Home Page

Dont use the £40 odd quid sealant they recommend, weather proof silicone will do the job just grand

I used "sikoflex" to seal round the carrier plate after removing the door trims. Sikoflex keeps flexible so it " moves " without cracking.

Top tip, if your warrenty has expired, use newspaper and stick them in the offending footwells, I've had news paper in the footwells for the last week and has soaked up all the water that has managed to creep in on my passenger side, all you need now is a really decent dry day before it rains again!

Davy

Hey everyone, I don't have time to read the whole of this thread, but you may or may not be interested to know that I took mine to my local dealer on Friday because of the door leaks and they agreed to replace all 4 door seals under warranty without any fuss at all.

It's going back in a couple of weeks to have the work done. I also took an Octy vRS (Diesel) for a test drive whilst it was being inspected. Nice! Bit too grown up for me though.

Either way, if my dealer will play ball then they all should.......... or so you would think.....

I've got to wait over 2 weeks to get mine sorted as they are fully booked with many other leaking Fabias.

Mine's not too bad at the moment, just the bottom of the door card is wet on the OSR. No water in the footwells but i assume it's progressive and will happen eventually. Just glad i've caught it before it gets to that stage.

I've caught mine at the start after reading about it on here, today is a nice sunny day so while I'm at work the carpet is drying out, another top tip is to set the blower down to the feet postion when you park the car and it drys out a treat. Mines not too bad at the moment but will in time resolve this for good.

JUST found my FAB is leaking carpet wet behind pasangers seat, n,s,r door card wet if i take the door card of and seal every thing will this work or does sombody know how to diy fix :(

What I did....

Went to homebase with £10 of my not-so-hard-earned.

Went into the sealants and adhesives section.

Bought some "Own Brand Homebase" No Gun Needed Black roof and guttering sealant.

Took it to the till, recieved £2.01 in change.

Removed the rear card as per the tutorial (well didnt take it off completely, just prised it back and sat on the floor).

Got a rag and some meths and went around the join between the carrier and the door.

Cut the nozzle off the tip, applied pressure and went all the way around the bottom half of the door, from rivet on one side and up to the other. I put the sealant in the dip between the carrier and door and made sure it was filled.

The I went and got a warm cup of water with fairy liquid in, and smooted the sealant in, MAKING SURE THERE WAS A GOOD SEAL all the way around, and that the metal lip of the door carrier was no longer visible. Left it to dry for a couple of hours then re fitted door card.

Came back to Uni, parked my car on the street which has a considerable dip with the repaired door at the top of the slope.

Now normally when its rained hard, I would open the door at the top of the slope and the seal would have a huge puddle on it, and bottom of the door card would also be soaking.

It rained 2 days straight (It's Wales!), went out to the car, opened the door and voila, door card bone dry, no puddle on the seal, pulled back the seal, no water there either!

There was a very reassuring puddle on the metal door sill just below the rubber seal though

So in conclusion,

Cost £7.99

Time - around an hour

Tools needed, 1 x t25 screwdriver, 1x large headed philips, flat bladed screw drivers, trim prising tool.

^ Was planning on doing exactly this, although I hadn't thought of 'Roof and guttering sealant' was just gonna use the white stuff for bathrooms! Have to remember this when the weekend comes! Cheers!

Cheers right to the point:)

My Dad used bathroom sealant on the other side, and said there was "no need to smooth it in"

Needless to say it leaked again the next day.

bear in mind he's the 50 year old plumber and I'm the politics student :roll:

Roff and gutter sealant is designed to be used outdoors so should better survive the conditions the car is gotting to be in. Bathroom sealant is really only to be used indoors so might not survive the high/ low temperatures, frosts etc.

Nice day today thought id have a go at that leak but how do i get the flaming handle of the window winder:rolleyes:

I assume all the handles are the same - but on my vRS the collar between the actual handle and the door card slides to unlock the handle off the spindle. Dead easy and I thought it was quite a funky piece of engineering too! ...bit sad, I know...

mine leeks, had one fix but still leeks. I can just see j clarkson saying how this should be a thing of the past and only a car built by bl in the 70's should have a bad problem as this.

This for me as well as the sensors going on the PAS and other small but fustrating faults will be my last Skoda, this being my third is a los for VAG group, as my mate said (Ex skoda dealer) if this was in the days before VW took them over it would have been fixed free as and when the problem came up.

Be intresting to see if they are still in the top gear top ten next time the jd power thing happens again, if not wake up skoda/vag group

Be intresting to see if they are still in the top gear top ten next time the jd power thing happens again, if not wake up skoda/vag group

Funnily enough i was reading an advert for Subaru and linked to Auto Index 2007 (the swedish equivalent of JD power). When it came to issues regarding aftercare, guarantees, goodwill and the service centers in general: Audi and Volkswagen came in last :eek:! Skoda were just above average but it shows why service is noticably worsening at Skoda :thumbdwn:!

Back to the original thread topic (leaky doors): had mine done according to the "skoda method" and it did **** all, even the service manager was embarassed when i turned up with a steamed up car (despite driving for 40 minutes!) a week later:rofl:. Now they have replaced ALL door seals, added sealant around all the seals and replaced the carpets. So far it has been much better:faint:

Took SWMBO's Fabia into our local stealers this week. Booked it in two weeks ago, told them I had water in the rear footwells and some mould on the N/S/R window seal. SWMBO went back to collect it, and was told that both doors had been re-sealed. I got in yesterday morning to find broken trim clips in the front passenger footwell, the mirror adjuster loose & the drivers door handle broken so called them to ask what had happend.

I was told they had sealed the front doors as water was comming in there. I asked about why the rear carpets were still wet & was told it was probably because I "lived on a hill":rolleyes: I had to point out that yes I lived on a hill, but the car is always parked nose down, so I wasn't sure how so much water was able to run up hill and do it without wetting the front carpets:D (of course i'm happy to be proved wrong!)!!

They have booked it in for a return visit where they have now agreed to take out seats, dry carpet, look at the rear doors & sort out the problem properly!!

Ho Hum I should have know it always takes two visits to get a problem fixed & a third to sort out the problem that the fix causes:D!

If the car is under warranty, Skoda UK instruct the stealer to reseal all four doors even if only one is leaking (even though they deny there is a problem with water ingress into Fabias).

I have not had time to fix or when i do it is ****ing down today i found the off side pas door leaking as well OMG give me a dry GLASGOW

Mine leaked from both rear doors and tailgate! not happy chappy!

Got mine fixed at the dealers. Hasnt rained 'heavily' but so far so good.

i was rather amused when asking the service guy about the leaky doors, to be given the response of "it looks like it was a dodgy batch" :rofl::rofl:

I can only assume from that comment that every Fabia ever made were made in ONE huge batch and were 'drip fed' into the market place over the last 7 or so years

I've had the manky sock smell in the rear footwell so I've just pulled the door card off. Not so good in cold weather , broke a couple of the plastic clips. :eek: The carrier on my (54) car is rivetted and doesn't pull tightly to the door leaving gaps that water will pass through. I've got a tube of "Geocel All Weather Mate" sealant, it's supposed to stick and seal even if the surfaces are still damp. It's outdoor selant so shouldn't be affected by temperatures the car will sit in. Seemed a safer bet than bath sealant, and I've got that for free in the van! This stuff was 7 quid from Travis P.

Only time will tell as to the success of this attempt.

BTW insulating tape down the bottom of the windows is a good temporary fix till you can be 4rsed taking the doors apart.

just to confirm all doors leak (including the boot now)

My friend has a 07 vrs and had leaky rear doors, they also replaced the boot seal + fronts

This is beyond a joke

Mine does not seem to bad at the moment, and I actually spotted my leak coming through the plastic inside the car, have got newspaper on the floor and it seems to be catching the water as it comes into the car, but it's not as bad as it was a wee while ago