Xantia estate wet rear passenger footwell
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Xantia estate wet rear passenger footwell
The N/S rear passenger footwell on my car was saturated - the car was parked with the O/S wheels on the kerb before I noticed it. Does anybody have any ideas?
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Hi Bren,
I'd firstly have a look at the membrane in the tailgate. Remove the carpet-like trim on the inside of the tailgate. Open the light access doors and disconnect the ribbon cable running across the trim that connects the two light clusters together. Then undo the numerous torx screws, not forgetting the two in the grab handle and pull the trim off.
You will now see a thick plastic membrane. This will be held to the tailgate frame with mastic that harden with age and the membrabe detatches from the frame. I'll wager you'll find it detatched along the bottom edge.
Reseal it with new mastic, taking care to ensure it is well bonded along the bottom edge.
If not that, check the plastic drain channels around the rear door shuts are intact and not full of moss and dirt.
I'd firstly have a look at the membrane in the tailgate. Remove the carpet-like trim on the inside of the tailgate. Open the light access doors and disconnect the ribbon cable running across the trim that connects the two light clusters together. Then undo the numerous torx screws, not forgetting the two in the grab handle and pull the trim off.
You will now see a thick plastic membrane. This will be held to the tailgate frame with mastic that harden with age and the membrabe detatches from the frame. I'll wager you'll find it detatched along the bottom edge.
Reseal it with new mastic, taking care to ensure it is well bonded along the bottom edge.
If not that, check the plastic drain channels around the rear door shuts are intact and not full of moss and dirt.
Jim
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Hello bren, this ones easy i eventually sussed it after much painstaking searching and found that the rear boot hatch is designed so that the rainwater runs down behind the rear screen seal through the back hatch or boot door and drains out of the bottom of the door over the rear bumper. when th e rear door membrane breaks the water runs through the boot door into the floor and runs down the boot filling up the rear footwells with water, you might like to try this solution, check under your rear seats there will probably be some standing puddles there to.
I tried and tried to reseal the plastic sheet atached to the rear door and it just didn't work, so I bought a tube of black panel glue the stuff the body shops use to glue new car panels on with, it cost me about a tenner and I only wanted a small bead of it. first of all clean the rear outer glass & seal with plenty of meths.
With the nossel cut as small as possiable I ran a very small bead along the top of the lower part of the rear screen seal it is almost invisible you just can't see it there and low and behold the leak stopped for good. the goo does take a while to set though and its about the most sticky substance you will ever find and nothing cleans it off your hands so wear some gloves if you can. it has even stood the test of time and several hundred garage car washes.
if everything else fails try this one it really works and its permenant well at least until you break your rear screen anyway but that could be years away or never.
Regards nigel.
I tried and tried to reseal the plastic sheet atached to the rear door and it just didn't work, so I bought a tube of black panel glue the stuff the body shops use to glue new car panels on with, it cost me about a tenner and I only wanted a small bead of it. first of all clean the rear outer glass & seal with plenty of meths.
With the nossel cut as small as possiable I ran a very small bead along the top of the lower part of the rear screen seal it is almost invisible you just can't see it there and low and behold the leak stopped for good. the goo does take a while to set though and its about the most sticky substance you will ever find and nothing cleans it off your hands so wear some gloves if you can. it has even stood the test of time and several hundred garage car washes.
if everything else fails try this one it really works and its permenant well at least until you break your rear screen anyway but that could be years away or never.
Regards nigel.
Hi Bren
Hope you can fix this one - caused me grief for ages until I did a search on this forum and followed Citrojim's mastic advice. He has written a page all about this - there is probably a way of linking to my message but I don't know how to do it. I bouught the mastic from a caravan accessory shop and made sure I cleaned up the area before applying. I know there is another tip for you to try but I can vouch for the mastic!
Its not a difficult job - just needs a bit of patience and a sunny morning.
Nigel
Hope you can fix this one - caused me grief for ages until I did a search on this forum and followed Citrojim's mastic advice. He has written a page all about this - there is probably a way of linking to my message but I don't know how to do it. I bouught the mastic from a caravan accessory shop and made sure I cleaned up the area before applying. I know there is another tip for you to try but I can vouch for the mastic!
Its not a difficult job - just needs a bit of patience and a sunny morning.
Nigel
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Here's the link to the thread.NAM wrote:Hi Bren
Hope you can fix this one - caused me grief for ages until I did a search on this forum and followed Citrojim's mastic advice. He has written a page all about this - there is probably a way of linking to my message but I don't know how to do it.
To do that, use the URL tags by following the guide posted my Myglaren in the sticky topics at the top of the Citroen forum.
Jim
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