While checking my car i found that there was a substantial amount of water in my trunk after it rained. Does anyone know where the leak could possibly come from?

 

could be a million places dude look at where the most water collects chances are its close to there ...could be ur lights could be the rubber trunk seal could have rust wholes ..just divide and conqer ull find it

 

Most likely your tail light gaskets. Or perhaps the sunroof drainage tube is clogged?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by redGSRguy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Most likely your tail light gaskets. Or perhaps the sunroof drainage tube is clogged?</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

tail lights or the weather stripping that goes around the hatchback

 

i would guess its the moon roof tube. it runs behind your panels on the right side. (when standing from the back of the car looking forward)

 

most likely the weather strip around taillights.. a million people have had this problem. i did.

easily solved with clear silicone from a hardware store. going around the cracks in the tail lights and using a silicone edging tool to smooth it out, and not make it look like crap.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by o0oz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i would guess its the moon roof tube. it runs behind your panels on the right side. (when standing from the back of the car looking forward)</TD></TR></TABLE>

There are tubes going down all 4 corners of the car, just so you know.

I had water coming in through the edge of the taillight lens (NOT the gaskets), so I had to seal them up with silicone to fix my leakage problem.

 

I have this same problem and i couldnt figure it out either! it was raining for about a week straight and I ended up with a kiddie pool in my hatch!!!

 

wow so odd, i came on here today to post this because of a flood we had this week. and well it looks like i found my answer, any teks on here to help repair this situation?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EliteCivicX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow so odd, i came on here today to post this because of a flood we had this week. and well it looks like i found my answer, any teks on here to help repair this situation?

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You have to determine where the water is coming in. I filled my bathtub with water, took one of my taillights (stripped of all the wire harnesses and everything) and dunked it with the lens facing up, and watched tons of bubbles pour out from around the top edge of the red lens. That's how I knew I was getting water in through the top edge of the lens.

*edit* I decided to help you out and find my old threads on my water leaks. FWIW I still have not fixed the leak in the passenger side floorboard, near the ECU.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1043545
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1045244
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1066498
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1071229
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1075298
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1093458
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1086869
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1107514
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1104487
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1110977
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1115878
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1131420
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1222706

yeah I've had a few water leak problems


Modified by PatrickGSR94 at 1:00 PM 6/5/2007

 

As a few people have stated earlier, it's almost ALWAYS your taillight gaskets. Take a look at those.

It was an issue with my Integra as well as some of my friends' too.

 

In my case, though, it wasn't the gasket, it was the lenses.

 

nm

 

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In our case, it was easy to spot because you could see drops of water inside the taillight lens. We actually replaced the taillight unit, and no water in the trunk since then.

 

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In our case, it was easy to spot because you could see drops of water inside the taillight lens. We actually replaced the taillight unit, and no water in the trunk since then.

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I'm cheap, I didn't want to spend money on taillights.

Silicone along the top edge of the lens has worked great and held up for the past 2 years.

And yeah I also had water drops and even standing water inside my taillights. I ASSumed at first, though, that the gaskets were the culprit. I even added custom weather stripping along the gap between the body and the top edge of the taillights (see one of my threads above) but that actually made it worse, because it sent MORE water over the edge of the lenses instead of letting the water run down behind the taillight around the lenses. The water would actually get into the housings and fill them up with water (hence the standing water inside the housings) and then that water would spill over through the holes in the metal rear bulkhead, down behind the plastic trim and into the spare tire well.

 

Where can I get the weather strip thing??? Well I always had leaks in my hatch, and somehow ended up on my passenger side floor... Now it doesn't, Idk???

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Project95LS-VTEC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where can I get the weather strip thing??? Well I always had leaks in my hatch, and somehow ended up on my passenger side floor... Now it doesn't, Idk???</TD></TR></TABLE>

don't do what I did, it made my leaks WAY worse.

 

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thats how i found out i had a water leak. i was like wtf? and posted on here, and they told me to check my trunk. i guess whenever i would come to a stop the water would go foward and eventually soak my rear seats and carpet. i had to drive around for 3 or 4 days wtih a stripped interior to let it dry out completley.

my problem was the sunroof drain tube had come out. so i went back there and secured it in place with a little friend i call duct tape.

i still have a little leak where a few drops will get in and im assuming thats the tailights but its not enough to warrant fixing. when the tube was out i literally had like 3 or 4 inches of water drowning my spare tire... now its just a few drops here and there.

 

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thats how i found out i had a water leak. i was like wtf? and posted on here, and they told me to check my trunk. i guess whenever i would come to a stop the water would go foward and eventually soak my rear seats and carpet. i had to drive around for 3 or 4 days wtih a stripped interior to let it dry out completley.

my problem was the sunroof drain tube had come out. so i went back there and secured it in place with a little friend i call duct tape.

i still have a little leak where a few drops will get in and im assuming thats the tailights but its not enough to warrant fixing. when the tube was out i literally had like 3 or 4 inches of water drowning my spare tire... now its just a few drops here and there.</TD></TR></TABLE>

My rear seats and below my rear seats got wet because of water coming in around my rear window squirter nozzle on the roof. It dripped down on top of the headliner, ran down around both sides and got down below the rear seat. I siliconed around that thing on the inside (removed the head liner of course) and fixed that right up.

Here's where it leaked in. Note the condensation on the metal all around that area:

 

well my water now is all in the trunk, not in the seats, mostly on the sides in the trunnk.