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Old 02-13-2020, 07:47 PM   #51
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So, is your issues resolved? I think I am leaking in the same spot on my 04.

No more leaks, finally. I found a THIRD leak behind the lower section of the left roof moulding. It snaps off pretty easily. There is another seam where the oem sealer was cracked, further forward on the lower left corner of the rear window. Eventually I will pop the rh roof moulding up and clean it and add sealer on that side also.



The long crack in the middle is the seam. In these pics it's not sealed. I had to use some grey hondabond sealer because the guy I got the good seam sealer for the other two leaks from wasn't there. I sealed it after the pics.





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Old 02-14-2020, 12:16 PM   #52
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My sedan has the same exact problem. only one side, drivers....
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Old 02-14-2020, 03:32 PM   #53
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I have significant cracks in the factory sealant.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/SHuAR8PfKStuQ3eo7

Somebody else suggested flowable silicone, so I am giving this a try

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ac62YiQkeXxCaxDy5

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8TpoGnswWXu1K8Tk6

I am going to add some more after it sets for 24h.

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Old 02-14-2020, 03:34 PM   #54
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I found a THIRD leak behind the lower section of the left roof moulding. It snaps off pretty easily.
How do you remove it?
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Old 02-15-2020, 03:03 PM   #55
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03 bugeye here, definitely happens to me whenever I wash my car or drive in rain any more than a drizzle. quite frustrating lol
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Old 02-15-2020, 07:32 PM   #56
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How do you remove it?
I used a plastic pry tool between the glass and moulding, starting at the bottom. It will snap straight out, and just move up a few inches to keep releasing the other snaps until you have enough off to pull the moulding over and tape it to the glass. That will keep it out of the way for cleaning and sealing. Mine snapped back in and stayed in, none of the clips broke luckily.
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Old 02-15-2020, 07:35 PM   #57
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I have significant cracks in the factory sealant.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/SHuAR8PfKStuQ3eo7

Somebody else suggested flowable silicone, so I am giving this a try

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ac62YiQkeXxCaxDy5

https://photos.app.goo.gl/8TpoGnswWXu1K8Tk6

I am going to add some more after it sets for 24h.

You need to remove the moulding to get to the actual seam that lets water in. It is under the moulding and on the left of the metal, the long single line in my pictures. I'm not sure the sealant puddle on the bottom with all the tiny cracks is where the body seam is. Mine was only leaking on the left of the channel, I sprayed soapy water and blew air from the inside to find the seam.
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Old 02-16-2020, 08:12 AM   #58
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You need to remove the moulding to get to the actual seam that lets water in. It is under the moulding and on the left of the metal, the long single line in my pictures. I'm not sure the sealant puddle on the bottom with all the tiny cracks is where the body seam is. Mine was only leaking on the left of the channel, I sprayed soapy water and blew air from the inside to find the seam.
I have been trying to avoid removing the moulding as I am 100% sure I will mess it up. It is raining today, so if water gets in again, I guess I will go ahead and remove it.
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Old 02-16-2020, 08:14 AM   #59
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I used a plastic pry tool between the glass and moulding, starting at the bottom. It will snap straight out, and just move up a few inches to keep releasing the other snaps until you have enough off to pull the moulding over and tape it to the glass. That will keep it out of the way for cleaning and sealing. Mine snapped back in and stayed in, none of the clips broke luckily.
So, on the rear, by the trunk lid, you can pry straight up there?
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Old 02-18-2020, 08:46 PM   #60
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Yeah, at the bottom corner of the glass / bottom end of the moulding. I used an all plastic pry tool, the kind that comes with about four in a kit, and pulled a little on the moulding end with my finger then put the tool between it and the glass and popped it up. So long as you use a plastic tool the glass will be ok. It takes some skill obviously, but mine snapped out easily. If you move further up as each snap releases, you can snap it loose to the top of the window then just carefully pull it over towards the glass side and tape it to the glass.
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Old 02-27-2020, 06:38 PM   #61
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Ok, here is the latest update. The silicone seems to have resolved one of my leaks, (you are right in that I have several) The next largest one is coming in where the bumper meets the rear quarter panel. See video.
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Old 03-14-2020, 04:21 AM   #62
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maybe buy the weather strip
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Old 03-15-2020, 10:25 PM   #63
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I removed my bumper and found the leak. I will post more tomorrow.
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Old 03-19-2020, 10:43 PM   #64
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Been fixing all the holes under the factory sound deadener and was just about to put my subs in. Next day it rains and I see my right Tailight is leaking water through the gasket even thought I had just replaced it with a brand new one what can it be? Also where the weather stripping is the seams by there seem to let water go through into the trunk. What should I do I just tried to use seam sealer all over the seams on the inside . It’s Suppose to rain tomorrow but don’t know what I should do about my Tailight but hopefully the seams won’t leak anymore.
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Old 03-19-2020, 10:50 PM   #65
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I removed my bumper and found the leak. I will post more tomorrow.
When I first got my car, there was a rattle from the trunk area. There are studs coming through the trunk that hold the bumper cover top brace. The nuts on mine were so loose there were gaps between them and the metal. I'm not sure why they were loose, but since they had no gaskets I just put a little hondabond sealant on the threads and tightened them. Mine never leaked though.

Is that where your second leak was?
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Old 03-25-2020, 04:42 PM   #66
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Ok, here is the latest update. The silicone seems to have resolved one of my leaks, (you are right in that I have several) The next largest one is coming in where the bumper meets the rear quarter panel. See video. https://youtu.be/jZ-UjkGJFow
I think I might have the same type of leak on my 03' wagon. Water is getting in and collecting in the cubby for the scissor jack. I'll have to pull my bumper and see I guess. What am I looking for when I get the bumper off, or will it be obvious?
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Old 03-25-2020, 09:03 PM   #67
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I think I might have the same type of leak on my 03' wagon. Water is getting in and collecting in the cubby for the scissor jack. I'll have to pull my bumper and see I guess. What am I looking for when I get the bumper off, or will it be obvious?
it was obvious once I got the bumper off and got a light on it, see video(sorry about the air compressor)
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I sealed it up with Fuze It and, so far, no water




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Oh, when you take off the bumper do NOT just pull it and break the tabs. There is a 10mm (I think) just inside the wheel well, that you need to take off for the bumper to come off. I broke two of them before I stopped and researched. Remember, nothing in taking off the bumper requires all of your strength, if it is resisting, there is something you have not loosened yet.

I had to repair my mistake.
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it was obvious once I got the bumper off and got a light on it, see video(sorry about the air compressor)
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Oh, when you take off the bumper do NOT just pull it and break the tabs. There is a 10mm (I think) just inside the wheel well, that you need to take off for the bumper to come off. I broke two of them before I stopped and researched. Remember, nothing in taking off the bumper requires all of your strength, if it is resisting, there is something you have not loosened yet.

I had to repair my mistake.
Thanks. I'm going to give this a try soon. Hopefully it works.
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Old 03-26-2020, 05:53 PM   #71
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Those locations you applied sealant should drain out the bottom if they are allowing water in. There are drain holes at the bottom on both sides of the trunk in those corners. Water shouldn't be getting in normally, but are your drains clear and allowing it to get out?
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Had the car outside since I'm putting my track bike back together and it's raining. I was like ****, the trunk is going to be wet... Sure enough I open the trunk and the carpet is wet.

I saw some water droplets here. It's like it's between the sheets of metal. It's not the actual rubber seal and I do not believe it's leaking from the spoiler.

I can't even express how annoying AF this is. I am going to try and remove the windshield trim as posted above and see what it looks like. Other than that there are no cracks that I can see anywhere... I pour water in from the rear windshield, or the side of the trunk and don't see water coming in, but it is coming in from somewhere, somehow, over a period of time. It rained the other day and there was no water in the trunk.. today though there was.

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Per the above instructions I pulled up the weather strip.. Surprisingly easy actually. I was expecting all sorts of **** to break. Nothing did. It was super dirty so I clean it all up and washed away all the crap.

Poured water through and I got MAYBE a couple drips of water in the trunk but I was pouring water on the back half of the roof, and then on the side channel that would then go to the trunk base. It looks like there are no cracks on the seam by the corner of the trunk base. I even lifted up the black seal to the trunk and did not see anything. I've taken picture of where I saw water drips from when I pulled the car into the garage and popped the trunk. You can see some rust stains from the inside of the trunk between the two pieces of metal... IF I put something there what is concerning is that the water would stop dripping from the X and "rusted" area and then go somewhere else. I'd like to fix it but damn this is hard trying to figure out where the actual water is coming from.

The area of the trunk that is getting wet is right on the left side (driver side) of the trunk on the side liner that starts to curve up/bump out. I saw fresh droplets of water, and then it drips down from there and gets the carpet wet. I double checked the spoiler holes and what not and do not see any drippings there.








The sharpie X is where water is coming in between those two pieces of metal.


Also where I think water is coming in due to rust marks.


Same as above/different view.


I blocked off this area with some playdough and filled it with water. Zero water coming in.

Which makes me wonder if it's coming in from the rear windshield somehow and how I would even freaking address it.... I do not that you can hear my rear windshield creak, I just chucked it up to how stiff my suspension and other bushings are on the vehicle but without removing the rear windshield how would one even begin. I'm going to get int the trunk this week and have my wife start spraying the rear end while I'm in it with lights and then see where the water is coming from. But it still won't really tell me where it's getting in at.

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So I finally got around to this. I took my bumper of and it doesn't look like my leak is coming from between the seems in the sheet metal. I removed my bumper and sprayed a hose around and found that the source of my leak is the vent flaps (For those that don't know these flaps are there to equilize air pressure when you shut the trunk or doors). The flap itself appears to be working correctly, the water doesn't seem to be coming through the vent itself, but rather around it. I'm going to pop it out and have a look, maybe I need to get some rubber and make a gasket for it, maybe I just need to silicone it in place. We'll see.

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So I popped out the vent as well as the one on the passenger side (they just clipped in from the inside). I scrapped away the foam gasket that was pretty rotted and put on a bead of silicone around it.
While I had the vents out I also took a look at why the water that got in there was not able to drain out. I found there was a drain plug at the bottom of the pocket inside the trunk. It's holes to drain water are pretty small though and can clog easily. My car being my rallycross car these were particularly buried in mud and silt that had got in there.
The driver's side one you can see by looking up when directly under the car. The passenger side one is kinda in sideways but should be visible from under the car to looking up and inside the bumper behind the rear wheel. They might be hard to spot though, my where covered in a bi of undercoating. But I was able to pry them out from underneath and cleaned them out before sticking them back in. Hopefully this seals up the car for the future. If it doesn't at least any water that gets in, now has a way out.



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Which makes me wonder if it's coming in from the rear windshield somehow and how I would even freaking address it.... I do not that you can hear my rear windshield creak, I just chucked it up to how stiff my suspension and other bushings are on the vehicle but without removing the rear windshield how would one even begin. I'm going to get int the trunk this week and have my wife start spraying the rear end while I'm in it with lights and then see where the water is coming from. But it still won't really tell me where it's getting in at.

Thanks,
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You make any progress on this issue Nigel? I'm in a similar boat.

Yesterday I pulled off the rear windshield trim and identified a crack in the passenger's side body sealant right up by the bottom RHS of the rear windshield. Some further poking around I.D.'d some rust in the trunk gutter's seam half way between the rear windshield and the tail lamp on the passenger's side as well, but not as obvious of a crack.

Since I had the trunk trim panels out, I spent some time inspecting the seam sealer where the rear wheel wells meet the outer fender. My 2002 WRX is *just* starting to show rust bubbles near where the rear bumper meets the rear fender. Sure enough, there was some pretty sloppy seam sealer application on the driver's side. Passenger's side looked better, but the rust looks a bit worse and I attribute that to the main leak being on the passenger's side trunk rain gutter, and allowing water to reach the wheel well seam.

So it looks like I'll be re-sealing both rear wheel wells, inspecting both corners of the rear windshield frame, and the two seams in the trunk gutter halfway between the windshield and the tail lamps.

Some initial research on this sort of repair came up with these resources:

https://garage.eastwood.com/eastwood...d-when-to-use/
https://www.thedrive.com/reviews/327...e-seam-sealers
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/collisio...am-sealer-sop/
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/rest...ler-correctly/
https://www.autobody101.com/content/...g-seam-sealer/
https://www.vehicleservicepros.com/c...lers-and-foams

I'll update everyone as I journey down this path.

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