Please help my taillight gaskets leak so I bought new ones they still leaked so I took them out and used some automotive bedding compound around them and still one leaks.

What have you guys done to alter the stock gaskets or what did you use to make your own gaskets cuz the stock gaskets are not good at all.

 

what do you mean the stock gaskets are not good at all? if it's still leaking after changing your gaskets, then you have other problems. check your antenna mount, water can leak from there too. and also, your sunroof drain tube goes from sunroof towards the rear on the passenger side. water can leak from there too.

 

Trust me still coming in from driver side taillight it's not drain tubes of anything else

 

Previously wrecked? I had a similar issue and it was actually the hole on the very far side where there is a little nipple to align the taillights. Gasket doesnt go over that far.

 

i also had this thought along with warped metal on the taillight if it was wrecked.

at any rate here's how you fix it. get a flashlight, sharpie and a tube of black rtv or the right stuff. crawl back in the hatch with a buddy outside. have him spray the **** out of the whole back area with a hose. watch where it comes from and mark it with the sharpie. get out of the car, dry it really well and seal with the rtv

 

I don't believe it's been wrecked but I know the waters coming from the taillight I ordered a new gasket and I'm thinking about taking a bondo knife and coating the gasket in silicone on both sides then installing it

 

that will most definitely just waste your time and money....find out where exactly the water is coming from.... unless you cake the crap out of it with soo much silicon and it ends up covering a hole the gasket doesnt normally cover up your still going to have a leak....but then you'll have to spend an hour scraping all that crappy silicon back off to find the leak again!!

 

plus...too many people dont have problems with their tegs leaking water in from the tailights....do some more investigating

 

I replaced the gaskets too but still had the same problem. I ended up making little notches to the black plastic on the bottom of my tailights to keep the water from filling them up. I haven't had problems since.

 

Everyone keeps tellling mr to keep looking but when I can see the water coming in behind the light and I can pull the plastic rivet the holds the wiring to the wall and water starts coming out that hole you tell me where it's coming from