Found the source of our leak...

[pmanson]

The car has been steaming up for a while now following heavy rain.

Following a flat battery I found a puddle of water in the boot (underneath the battery). Today's job was take out the boot carpet (in the garage drying) and try to find the source.

Inside of the car was bone dry but I cleaned out the drain holes just in case and the boot only seemed wet on the right hand side so I took the right rear cluster and it looks like the rubber seal has perished.

Any suggestions on where to get a new one from? Boundville have a couple which are second hand but no new ones.

Cheers,
Phill

[Fruitcake]

Moss?

[pmanson]

Just had another thought.... could it be coming in through the ariel?

If so how would I stop that?

[DennisTheMenace]

the rear light just use the original rubber and some silly cone sealant , the aerial , do the same mate , unscrew the base lifte the rubber that sits on the body , squirt of silacone sealant around the hole sit the rubber down and then tighten up the aerial again , its worked on mine for over a year now

[pmanson]

nice and simple then! the more I think about the amount of water that was in there the more I think it's the ariel.

i'll give it a go one night in the week.

[pmanson]

it appears I was lying.

I resealed the ariel last night but not the cluster and the car was parked nose first up a slope and the boot well has a lot of water in it this morning. going to do a few tests but it may be the boot seal or the rain rail. How difficult is it to change a rain rail? (if that's what is)

[J.P.W.]

I find parking nose down stops boot leaks. But leaves me with soggy footwell on driver's side. I think that's coming in through the door trim though which I guess is a moderately easy fix? Good luck anyway, assuming you're going to fix it rather than take my lazy approach!

[pmanson]

Another common problem i've found out via mx5forums is a seal failing underneath the frankenstein bolts for the hard top so i'll be taking the bracket off tomoorow and applying some sealant!

Woohoo! That seems to have worked, I washed the car and we still have a dry boot.

This morning I have had half the dash apart running a cig lighter adapter in preparation for the phone car kit

Edited by pmanson on Saturday 7th June 14:49