i cant figure out how water keeps getting on my right back seat. i cant find a leak, but it gets soaked after it rains. anyone else having this problem?

 

Not sure if we are allowed to cross reference here, but there was a post on this some time ago on a different forum.

Unfortunately you have to be a paid member to read it.

http://www.preludeonline.com/showthr...ht=trunk+water

 

probably a leak around your sunroof, or your back window, my integra leaks inot the back, but that is b/c of the little rear window washer sprayer, so obviuosly this wouldn't be a factor on a Lude

 

i just dont understand how only my passenger side back seat gets wet. everything else is dry


[Modified by 97Lude, 1:21 PM 10/20/2002]

 

Quit spilling water in the seat. JK

My recommendation would be to have someone wet the car down while your in it to see if you can pin point the leak.

 

yo i had the exact same problem about an hour ago i fixed it!! it was the lower seal on the back window. its a stip that screws down to make the glass look better. there are screws under the rubber flap i had to tighten them down. there are these little clips make sure they are on the metal track that holds down the peice. there was a puddle of water under my spare and only my rear passener seat was getting wet. the damnedest thing. heres some pics
this is 4gen not 5th but hope it helps


this was the clupret!!! lilttle bastard

 

you are a life saver my friend

 

was that it?

 

What's up nmehta?

I've since updated that thread, it turns out my original solution (the plastic vent on the side of the trunk) didn't fix it. I think it helped, but I've still got water pouring in from somewhere.

I've probably dumped a total of 20 gallons of water over the top of the car, and nothing's leaked from that direction, so I'm positive it's not a problem with my window seals or roof drainage. It's got to be water kicked up by the tire.

The water's coming in from somewhere on the far passenger side of the trunk, from where it runs down into the spare tire well, and then sloshes up to soak the rear seat bottom every time I hit the brakes. I've currently got the entire interior stripped (which is really freakin' loud, by the way) to figure out how exactly it's coming in, but no luck yet.

But I definitely need to fix it before winter, so I don't end up driving around with my spare tire frozen in a block of ice on the bottom of my car. Plus, I want to throw on some sound deadening, and can't really do it until I get things dry back there.

Any ideas?

 

yeah, its not my seal either on my back window. water is filling up around my spare tire and i dont know how it's getting in there. i drained it today and soaked up the excess water with a towel, which i guess ill have to do every time that it rains, until i figure out how water is getting in there.

 

under the rear seats and the under the spare there is this nasty looking dougnut rubber circle thing
i have no clue what its for but that the problem for sure. Just dry it and take some clear rtv or some honda bond if your ghetto and seal the bitch and you should be good to go. But you might not want to do it, what if your in the desert and your car breaks down at least youll have some water

 

You mean the drainage plugs? Sorry, that's not the problem "for sure". If water could get through those I wouldn't have up to 4 inches of standing water sitting in the bottom of the car . . . . it would drain out.

Last week I drove roughly 50 or 60 miles total in the rain, after which there was a solid 2 inches of water at the bottom of the trunk. And probably at least as much absorbed in the seat cushion. It's been out of the car 3 days, and it's still squishy.

 

isnt that just to stop vibration....

 

JEEZ never heard of this problem in a lude?
escpecially in a 97?
hmmmmm interesting

 

tubes that run from your sunroof down to the trunk are plugged. the water draines into you tirewell and when you do down hill or hit the breaks all the water dumps into your backseats. I've got a 4th gen. Black drain tubes are found behind the side trunk linings and behind the first wall of sheet metal. no drilling needed. pull the side trunk linings and reach behind the metal and look for a tube. the tube end sits in a rubber nipple that works also as a plug to a drain hole. pull the tube. the tube will come out of the nipples that are stuck in the drain holes facing to the sides. a bunch of water will run out after you pulled the tubes out of the nipples. pull the nipples out of drain hols on side and cut tips off. tips are holding bugs and stuff so if you cut the tips of there will be no restirction. reassemble and I garuntee itll solve your wet seats....unless you spill something.

 

this wasnt the case in mine as i posted above but he is right about water in the spare tire well..

 

well this is really pissing me off because my back seat is like soaked.

 

get a huge tarp and put it around your car and use a parascope to see out of it. almost like the interprize ads on tv. where they wrap the car in brown paper...

 

yeah thats a GREAT idea lol

 

I remember hearing about that for 4th gens - but unfortunately I don't think it's the problem in my case. My drainage tubes (5th gen) are a clear plastic, and I inspected them pretty thoroughly. I didn't find any blockage, and they seemed to be sealing pretty well (no water sitting in the tube, either). Like I said, I poured a ton of water over the top of the car, and none of it made it inside, but I'll try more of it up around the sunroof area just to be sure. And the weather seals around my sunroof are in good shape & appear to be sealing well.

But I'll inspect the drain nipple more closely like you suggested. It's possible that under high-flow conditions it gets backed up, although there's nothing blocking it that I can see.

Anyway, thanks for the ideas.

 

Alright, so I pulled out the moonroof drain nipples during lunch - no major congestion. There was a few small stones in there, so maybe it was enough blockage to cause overflow. Who knows. But there was about the same amount of blockage on both sides, and my source is definitely heavily biased on the passenger side.

In any case, I trimmed the ends off the nipples to make sure there's good flow out of the car. Reinstallation is going to be a pain, though, so I'll do that tonight if there's still daylight when I get out of work. Awkward positioning, not much light, and a pretty tight fit for the rubber plug.

Maybe I'll go to a car wash & blast the underside with a sprayer for a few minutes to see what pops up, and where . . . . .

 

Did you ever find a solution?
​​​​​​I'm currently having that issue. The floor of the under the passenger seat and back sit soaked