Rear storage area leak

[Stral]

Hi Oli, the seal itself can become compressed after years of being squashed in location. So it may look fine, ie not cracked or perished, but may not be doing it's job. Check the no cost options first. If it still leaks then you may want to try a new OEM single piece hatch seal, Max at Frazerparts usually has these stocked and he's well priced. To fit the single piece OEM seal you will need to snip the wiring to the rear wiper motor to undo the electrics, it's easy enough, just patience and time.

Have you checked the boot lock rubber seal, the one around the key hole ? Water can enter here and gather on the shelf you mention without getting to the carpet. Three or 4 quid for that, and easy to do, just disconnect the lock mechanism from the inside.

In my experience, if the window to frame bonding is the problem, like mine, then the carpets would be wet unless you had lifted the carpet flap away from the battery area, that way it could in theory trickle straight into the compartment from a high entry point.

I used body seal, stone chip paint in the compartments to protect from rust, works well, and with the addition of another drain hole at least the water leaves as quickly as it comes it. Still a total pain though as I know exactly where the leak is, just can't stop it.

Cheers

 

[T3rra]

Yes I just removed the rubber pulled it off and pushed back on. Hacth and frame wouldn't nessery mean wet carpets I though this at 1st but it could run down the inside off the rubber on the paint and down between the poppers. Never coming in to contact with the carpet.

Cause the carpets are not wet it's not sunroof seals or rear windows. Dose the under Neath off the rear carpet feel wet when removed?

Water in the back off the lights is deff the from the pins by the hacth as it coming in on top off the lights then getting inside, and on 2 the shelf. So I would say its to do with that area, quite possabile is getting down the sides off the rubber pin gaskets and then missing the chacth pit all together on to the lights and shelf. Dose your hacth hold water? There to holes that let the water out that fall on 2 the glass, the hacth pin area should only deal with what runs down the side off the body under the hacth which shouldn't be a lot

 

[zcacogp]

Guys,

More replies, and I am now back at home with decent fast data speeds so can reply more fully! (Slow internet access is a major annoyance.)

Bruce's suggestion of kitchen tissues as a technique to diagnose the location of the leak was inspired; I used it expensively. Thanks Bruce! Kitchen tissue folded across the top of the boot carpet where it comes up behind the lock panel stayed completely dry, as did tissue tucked under the boot lock and tissue tied around the drain tube going down from the boot lock drain cup. To me, this suggests that the water is coming from lower down ...

... which was confirmed by the tissue that was tucked under the top of the light moulding becoming sodden after 90 minutes of heavy rain. I therefore strongly suspect that the seal (now twice-done!) around the lights is not good enough at the top, and water is coming in there. Job for tomorrow is therefore to take them off (again) and see what's going on there. While the lights don't seem damaged (no cracks evident), is there any chance that the seals between the various bits of the light unit are leaking and causing this problem? Or is this a daft idea?


Oli.

 

[T3rra]

What are you sealing the lights with? U could check/test the lights once there out.

When my lights weren't sealed after respray I had water siting inside the lenses that's how I noticed they werent sealed.