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Question: leaky trunk

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Visitor, 1.5L 4 Cylinder, Ware, MA, April 02, 2010, 05:33

water is getting in my trunk

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    patrick mannion from Greg Solow's Engine Room, April 02, 2010, 08:06
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    It is best to look for water leaks when everything is dry. First is the trunk seal damaged in anyway? Does the trunk close flush with body? Ensure the trunk seal makes good and uniform contact with the trunk (particularly important if the vehicle has been involved in an accident. You may need to pull back carpets/trunk lining and get inside the trunk with a flashlight and get a friend with a garden hose to spray water around the trunk and tail lights to determine where the water is entering. Then spray water around the rear windscreen moving around the circumference of the windscreen. Look around the windscreen area to determine if water is leaking in around the windscreen seal. Is there any rust around the windscreen area or body work?

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