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13-12-2008, 01:16 PM | #1 | ||
Tyre Shredn
Join Date: May 2007
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ey guys i noticed today that my boot has sprung leak :
has anybody had this problem and what can i do to fix it. i cant tell exactly wear it is leaking from. but i was thinking of just getting a sealer and putting it on the joins were the panels meet? |
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13-12-2008, 01:42 PM | #2 | ||
Its Resonating!
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My guess will be, it fills up with rain and overflows.
Have to park the car on a slight incline so the water can run away through the channels, not build up a puddle. |
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13-12-2008, 03:32 PM | #3 | ||
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mine does the same, it runs in the join which is covered with that soft sound deadning stuff, it comes in where the two sheets are overlapped, just run a bead of silicone, along the join from the inside.
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13-12-2008, 04:09 PM | #4 | ||
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Welcome to AU fault number 378.
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13-12-2008, 06:26 PM | #5 | |||
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Amen brother amen.... from memory its usually either number plate holes or the spoiler holes. If you do a search there is about 50 posts on this topic amigo it is certainly a very frustrating problem I seemed to have fixed mine by accident somehow. |
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13-12-2008, 08:03 PM | #6 | ||
Tyre Shredn
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were do i put the silicone here??but on the inside??
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13-12-2008, 08:32 PM | #7 | ||
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Strikes me as odd that an engineering student can't figure out how to stop some leaks.
But yes, where you marked out is the spot.
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13-12-2008, 08:57 PM | #8 | ||
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thats correct but from the inside
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15-12-2008, 04:02 PM | #9 | ||
Tyre Shredn
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na just wanted to be doubly sure dont want to do more work than i have to :
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15-12-2008, 04:58 PM | #10 | ||
Critical Thinker
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Mine leaks from the spoiler, collects inside boot lip. When I lift boot after a good rain, my boot cops a shower.
Another thread around here shows a user drilling holes in the boot lip to allow for extra weep holes.
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15-12-2008, 05:53 PM | #11 | ||
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well, i used to think mine leaked from the spoiler, but not anymore (at least not totally) if you look here, you can see sort of dirt marks with water runs in them on the bootlid, this section is right in the middle of the boot seal on both sides...don't ask me how that happens, but that's where it leaks. it must run down the inside of the boot and into the bottom making it rust GRRRR...
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