The GFs car has this issue and has just allowed rain straight back into my loving cleaned up fuse box :-( Car now in the garage overnight and my Octy is on the driveway :-(

I guess I need to have the windscreen taken out and refitted, but what sort of company is good for this? Also what esactly do you have done when the windscreen is taken out?

All the sound deadening material under the glovebox is soaking wet.....

I am based in Weymouth, Dorset just incase anyone knows a good local company....

Cheers,

Matt

Welcome to the club! We are a few Felly owner who has suffered from the same, see e.g. this thread:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/felicia-fun-forman/dripping-my-foot/90624/?highlight=windscreen

The windscreen rubber seal is the culprit. Some have succeded using sealant, others have chosen to change the rubber seal. Any professional car glazier will do it. Don't know about prices in UK, but here I paid £40 this summer

I did mine myself with a tube of sikaflex, available from all good auto paint suppliers. you will have to remove the plastic scuttle panel where the wiper arms come out of the bulkhead. just fill in between the screen and rubber and then between the screen and body. make sure no tapes have come of the blanking holes in the bulkhead. should take about an hour

Check your sunroofs too

I had mine leak this year. Haven't had a problem since I cleaned and vaselined the seal.

Vaseline eats rubber, hence why you should not use vaseline with condoms. Silicone oil is a better alternative, but wouldn't recommend that for use with condoms:rofl:

It also has the leaking sunroof issue.... Last year I pulled back the rubber seal and and squirted in some silicone but that has not cured it... I now think that must leak between the rubber and the glass?

The beast in question is an R reg 1.9D with 102k on the clock and still chugging along!

If it's anything like the favorit with the handle that you turn around, tighten it as tight as possible and see if that has any effect. I found mine leaked as it sort of popped up after closing, and you could hear a noise from it at speeds on the motorway.

The sunroof in my estate was leaking, about a year ago I took out the glass (2 screws near the winder) and the rubber and cleaned the rubber with hot water and a clothe, making sure to get right into the channels for the body etc and it's been fine ever since.

Both windscreens on both my feli's leak, I need to get round to fixing them before winter sets in, if it gets to wet in the estate the hot air blower stops working !

Oh, and to protect the fuse box on the hatch I made a cover for it out of a plastic bottle (after taking it appart in the kitchen and drying it out).

Phill.

What am I missing out on? Everyone else seems to have a leaky screen. I don't want one!

Thanks for the handy tips Phillj303, my roof leaked a few times too & I'll get round to your treatment of it asap

(after taking it appart in the kitchen and drying it out).

Your kitchen has a leak too?

Vaseline eats rubber :eek:

Vaseline eats rubber :eek:

It depends on the rubber. I don't know if vaseline is a synthetic or natural oil based compound but some natural oils disolve natural rubber, which is why it's important to check whether the brake fluid you use is compatible - most now are universal, so no worries, but it used to be a problem. It's the same with engine seals, not only door & window rubbers.

Synthetic oil also disolves synthetic rubber unless there are additives to prevent it from doing so.

Vaseline is the same as petroleum jelly so I think it's natural oil based.

I wouldn't worry if you have put vaseline on rubber. I did it on my rear screen seal before I read of the potential for it to damage rubber, with no obvious ill effects.

Vaseline is the same as petroleum jelly so I think it's natural oil based.

If Vaseline melted your, um, protection (which ARE organic/natural rubber), then it's natural too. The Germans invented synthetic petrol during WWII so something called petroleum jelly might also be synthetic...

What was the thread again?

Oh yes, leaky rubbers. Use a silicon based lubricant to seal/fit car windows.

Even if sealant has done the trick for quite a few one should be prepared for the possibility that a new rubber seal is needed. Apparently they lose their elasticity over years and the design is far from perfect - small pools of water form at the bottom corners and if water gets the slightest chance to seep through it will be taken.

If a really efficient sealing demands the removal of the screen one should of course get a new seal as well.

Both windscreens on both my feli's leak, I need to get round to fixing them before winter sets in, if it gets to wet in the estate the hot air blower stops working !

Oh, and to protect the fuse box on the hatch I made a cover for it out of a plastic bottle (after taking it appart in the kitchen and drying it out).

Phill.

Thats interesting... herself has reported the fans don't work.... but they seem to work for me - maybe an intermittent water induced fault then. I had also considered making a fuse/relay cover after I spent several hours cleaning and reassembling the thing.....

I sprayed WD40 onto the fans contacts on my Favorit and that got it working again. On the Favorit it's kind of a double hamster wheel type fan with the contacts in the middle.

I took the car to my local garage and they popped the screen out, removed all the old cracked sealant, resealed it and put it back in... so far so good.

Until yesterday when it failed to start again - even though it has a new battery!!!