MK7 Rear Hatch Rubber Boot DIY

How to replace the rear hatch rubber boots on a MK7. This rubber boot may often require replacement if you break the clips on your boot installing an LED tail light harness.

MK7 Rear Hatch Wire Harness Boot (Left or Right Side)

Pick Set used in this video

Wire Terminal Removal Tools

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[HostileMAV]

I broke my rubber boot clips when I was upgrading to the MK7.5 Taillights. I used some black hot glue around the edge of the rubber boot. Its been holding up well and the glue can come off easy if I need to take them off again.

[chrissheila]

So helpful. Mucked around with silicon and trying to make my own clip. In the end I just bought a new rubber boot and did it properly. Took about 2 hours. And mine was on the left side. Not to bad. The eye level taillight just clips off and you can disconnect the cable. The biggest challenge was marking all the white cables and taking lots of photos so that I could put it all back together. I only had to unpin one of the connectors as I could push one through the boot okay. Thanks for the video. Super helpful.

[mikee]

I used some Nylon braided wire loom from an old PC power supply to act as a Chinese finger cuff. I pulled it through the new boot with some 12ga copper, fed the wires into it and taped it at the car end. Used a bit of wire pulling lube on the braid and it pulled through with very little effort and strain on the connectors. Thanks DAP for the instructions! Saved me a bundle... Now show us how to align and calibrate the front assist sensor ;)

[hackneo]

Thanks so much for doing this. I broke mine installing a rear dash cam.

[district]

Good video. Be careful with the washer fluid tube though as it might break when straightened. Broke mine from multiple places and washer fluid leaked everywhere. Huge job to replace that so I heated the remaining tube end and expanded it so the tubes would fit inside eachother. Then just use super glue, shrink sleeve and loads of tape. Good thing there is more than enough tube there to play with if you crack a piece off.

[airsoft]

Thank you so much, this explains why water is getting in through my back liner near the trunk, time for me to use the humidifier and reinstall new ones

[markvale]

Thank you, this helped with a Seat Leon Mk4 2021.

I broke mine installing a rear camera. It was the left side, so the harness at the end of the video here.

I found that I had to de pin all the wires as even unclipping the harness, the forks I felt would snap pulling them through.

De pinning wasn't actually that hard to do. Whole process took about 45 minutes

[Jagogjk]

Thank you so much for the video, you "saved my life" i have to do this for a client tomorrow and i had no idea how to remove the washer fluid hose 😂.

[marioncooper]

Great video, would like a complete video for the other side

[mikerinehart]

Having just done this…I like the direction however it is much easier to dissemble/de-pin both harnesses and tape the ends together (battery disconnected first) and pull it through the new boot. Notice how no one want to show you this part. This is because if you mess it up you can and will be taking an expensive trip to repair. Most part swappers will want to change the entire harness even. Not worth that at all.
Pull them one plug and at time. Re-pin one at a time so you done mix any pins up in either black or brown connector. Make sure to take lots of pictures for reference and write down each pin and wire code written on each individual wire. Then re-pin back to connector and put back together one at a time. This will require the Depinning tool (CE-91 to make it bare able), and it will turn this into a 30-minute thing instead of the 2 hours I spent over analyzing, just to de-pin all the connectors anyway. The black/brown 8 pin on both sides won't fit thru the boot and I don't recommend cutting the guides. The part is cheap, and the tool will make the difference in getting it done efficiently.

[gordonwaldie]

Any more details how to fit the left hand side without removing the spoiler!!?

[tonyortiz]

I noticed leaking in the trunk area and thought it was the antenna but I pulled on the rubber and it didn’t budge but it was the right side for me luckily because I have no clue how to deal with pin anything lol. Waiting for vw to get the part but this was very helpful. Fingers crossed 🤞 I don’t break nothing lol

[mattymcloughlin]

Just bought the part then watched this il be taping it back thanks guy

[VKK]

It's a simple process. There is a detailed video about this on my channel.

[MrMduchesne]

hmm...interesting. going to add this one to the playlist of possible future screwups with the MK7

[syntrixxnl]

Can you show how to replace the left rubber instead of the right ?

[chrissheila]

Of course mine is broken on the difficult left side! Thanks for the vid.

[ethannewell]

Thanks pauly d, ive been pulling my hair out trying to figure out where the water is getting in from on this fing car

[Beyond_Remote]

Can you explain or shoot a video of removing the spoiler please?

[butterthegreat]

I wish you had this almost 2 years ago. lol. Great video!