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Water leaking from trunk lid...fix ???

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Old 06-10-2008, 05:15 PM
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Default Water leaking from trunk lid...fix ???

Came back from a week long bus trip and opened the trunk to a gush of water dripping down from inside the trunk lid. I checked the sunroof drains and they were clear, pinched the wheel well nipples and only a bit of water came out. What gives ???
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Try put on silicone on the rubber seal, you should do that once in awhile anyways
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Mine does this occassionally too - always thought it was a bad tail light seal. I've yet to look.
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Default What I don't get is that ...

any water that flows towards the trunk should be directed out by the channels around the trunk. So the only way water could get into the trunk lid would be through the nav antenna or tail lights and I would think that it would be near impossible for water to flow off the trunk lid and through the tail lights. I'm stumped ! Any thoughts appreciated.
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Default On mine I found it was condensation

I had mine parked for a while when I was doing the timing belt/tstat, and I found that condensation on the rear window was draining into the trunk/spare well, and then was recondensing on the trunk lid.
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