This older VW Golf has all four door membranes leaking water and a host of other common problems.
You may have seen on other videos that the rear air vents leak on Golfs, but on this one most of the problems come from the door membranes and a split boot on the wiring of the tailgate. As with most cars, if drainage holes in the scuttle get blocked it can fill up and leak water through the bulkhead, so it's important to keep this area clean and fitting the scuttle plate properly may help keep out debris. We have seen these before where they are mis-fitted but this in its self doesn't seem to be a direct issue.
Solution: Replace all four door membranes and clean out the scuttle. We tend to recommend using replacement parts to repair cars, but in the case of the rubber boot, we might suggest repairing it with a rubber sealant. On a car of this age, this is probably more cost-effective.
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Here are some more of our latest #VW water leak found videos
This car was brought to us because the windows kept steaming up and sometimes the carpet in the passenger footwell was wet.
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This VW has the common problem of leaking door membranes. In these, the door membrane is not a plastic sheet but a metal panel which needs to be removed and resealed.
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This VW Caddy was suffering with water on the floor in the front. An inspection revealed that the windscreen was leaking quite badly.
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This Passat had a blocked sunroof drainage pipe on the passenger side. The other major issue was just blocked drainage on the scuttle, this will cause it to fill with water and overflow back into the cabin through the pollen filter.
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This car is a very good example of what happens with sunroofs on many makes and models of cars.
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Leak found and fixed: VW Golf
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