Roof leaking??

dollybird09 · 05-02-2010 9:17am #1

I have a 05 golf that is leaking... :mad:

There is no sun roof, but it's leaking around the rear view mirror ie. where car ceiling meets windscreen. The interior was soaked last night, and there was water building up somewhere around lights at mirror cos I got soaked going around a roundabout

Suggestions??? Do I call a vw garage or autoglass?

Drummerboy08 · 05-02-2010 9:18am

Has it had a new windscreen recently? Or any other form of body work around the roof/windscreen of the car?

dollybird09 · 05-02-2010 9:19am

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Has it had a new windscreen recently? Or any other form of body work around the roof/windscreen of the car?

No none at all. This just happened last night, I've never had an issue before.

Drummerboy08 · 05-02-2010 9:23am

How long have you had the car?

I'd drop into the garage you bought it from, and ask them to take a look at it first. This should give you a better idea of whats happening.

Otherwise you could have someone run a hose over the windscreen while you sit inside, trying to see where the leak is coming from. This is more than likely what the garage will do anyway.

dollybird09 · 05-02-2010 9:30am

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

How long have you had the car?

I'd drop into the garage you bought it from, and ask them to take a look at it first. This should give you a better idea of whats happening.

Otherwise you could have someone run a hose over the windscreen while you sit inside, trying to see where the leak is coming from. This is more than likely what the garage will do anyway.

I know where it's coming from, it's coming in just behind the mirror like where the roof meets the windscreen. Would this be the seal or something on the windscreen? Not really likely that I'll get to the garage I bought it from as it's in Wexford and not open on weekeends :cool:

neilthefunkeone · 05-02-2010 9:34am

Yeah probably the seal.. But funny it just happened last night.. Usually they would slowly degrade.. Maybe if you have free windscreen cover on your insurance you can get someone out to refit your windscreen.

Did you check around the leaking area for rust.. Hopefully not that... especially on an 05!!!

dollybird09 · 05-02-2010 9:38am

neilthefunkeone wrote: »

Yeah probably the seal.. But funny it just happened last night.. Usually they would slowly degrade.. Maybe if you have free windscreen cover on your insurance you can get someone out to refit your windscreen.

Did you check around the leaking area for rust.. Hopefully not that... especially on an 05!!!

My car is very rarely parked outside in the rain so maybe this is why I've never noticed. All looks as it should around the top of the windscreen. I've free windscreen cover so maybe I should just get autoglass out and hope that it solves the issue?

peasant · 05-02-2010 10:17am

It needn't necessarily be the windscreen.

It could also leak around a roof antenna (for example) and the water then just runs inside the roof liner to the lowest point where it finally collects and runs out (eventually)

cantdecide · 05-02-2010 10:21am

I think that to get in behind the headliner from the windscreen, it would have to travel uphill, wouldn't it. I'd give it to a bodyshop- they're far more used to fettling trims and panels of this nature...

What about seals around doors etc? Was it parked on a hill?

kasper · 05-02-2010 10:29am

i would think peasant might be correct i had the same problem years ago and it was the aerial

dollybird09 · 05-02-2010 11:40am

How did you know it was aerial/roof antennae? If I take the car somewhere they'll have a field day ripping me off cos I know absolutely nothing about cars!

I'm listening · 05-02-2010 12:44pm

dollybird09 wrote: »

I have a 05 golf that is leaking... :mad:

There is no sun roof, but it's leaking around the rear view mirror ie. where car ceiling meets windscreen. The interior was soaked last night, and there was water building up somewhere around lights at mirror cos I got soaked going around a roundabout

Suggestions??? Do I call a vw garage or autoglass?

Same happened to me a year ago, I replaced the antenna and the problem stopped.

colm_mcm · 05-02-2010 12:54pm

you could try taping around the aeriel to see if it solves it before ripping the headlining off.

pa990 · 05-02-2010 5:04pm

i know that some of the new 5door mondeos have leaky roofs as well.

The water is lodging between the two hinges for the 5th door, not draining away sufficiently, and making its way into the head liner, assisted by the ice freezing and expanding with the recent cold snap.

may or may not be a similar prob with your golf.. worth checking though

kazul · 05-02-2010 8:07pm

Slightly OT but...
A guy brought in an almost new golf for a trade-in appraisal a couple of years ago when I was selling cars.
He said he had bought it brand new from a prominent VW dealership in Galway.
Because it was so new we had a very close look and discovered that the entire roof had been repaired and re-sprayed. The rest of the car looked OK.
It didn't look like it had been rolled so 1 likely explanation was a tumble off a transporter.
Yer man wasn't best pleased when we showed him the damage and I didn't mind as an almost new car is nearly impossible to take as a trade-in.

Roof leaking??

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