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Maintenance & Repair Water Leaks -- How to Find and Fix
420 messages, Last post on Nov 16, 2009 at 7:13 PM
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Hi. I just had a similar problem with my eclipse. There was a heavy rain storm a couple of days ago here and water was leaking from the passenger side where the plastic beam and the headliner meet. I covered my leather seat with plastic, but the floor board got soaked so badly, I'm still waiting for it to dry out. I opened my sunroof and cleared out the drains in the front and back of it with a rigid wire. I did the same with the drains in the hatchback. I also found a ton of debris (leaves, dirt, etc.) inside the doors where they meet with the front fenders. I removed all the debris and then tested everything I cleaned by pouring a small amount of water into all drainage holes to make sure the water would run freely through the drains and out of the car which it did. The water should flow out behind the front tires. When checking the hatchback drains, the water should flow out behind the back tires. All my drains are clear now so I hope no more problems. I hope this info will help someone out.
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Replying to: dragonfire1 (Sep 07, 2008 11:04 am)  Mark |
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Replying to: moeburger (Sep 06, 2008 9:02 pm) This should have been a recall.. My car only has 35K miles on it but the years have expires my warranty.. Oh well, nothing I can do about it now I guess.. Mark
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Replying to: mbehlok (Sep 07, 2008 4:41 pm) |
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Replying to: mbehlok (Sep 07, 2008 4:41 pm) Duct taping up the side of the windshield and making sure to cover the small hole at the top were that strip overlaps the windshield strip prevented water from coming into the floardboard. Now its either find more clips to hold it better or some adhesive/silicone to lock it into place and test again. - cnathanw  nospam yahoo.com
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My son just purchased a 1995 civic coupe and has been working through repairing all the leaks. After it was purchased we discovered water in the trunkIt was hit in the right rear Q-panel and whoever did the repair left a few holes to the outside world. He has been using automotive seam sealer to seal all the holes and seams we can find. We still have at least one leak and think it is coming in somewhere near the lower RH side of the rear window but have not definitively located where water is coming in at. We find it dripping down the RH vertical support brace midway between the front and back of trunk. The water appears to be travelling along a seam to the brace. We have tried spraying the area with soapy water and or windex and running the heater but have yet to locate any bubbles. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated on ways of finding and sealing the leak before the Seattle winter hits. Our latest attempt was to seal a few inches under the blace trim piece below the window and between the window and the trim piece using 3M clear automotive sealer. As I said earlier any help is appreciated.
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Replying to: renrewda1 (Sep 28, 2008 4:11 pm)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Sep 28, 2008 4:16 pm) Any other ideas on locating the leak? I've been thinking maybe when it got hit it affected the sealant around the window but can't confirm.
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Replying to: renrewda1 (Sep 28, 2008 4:30 pm)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Sep 28, 2008 5:56 pm) Thanks again...if you have any pointers on removing the interior pieces let me know.
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