My Trunk Leaks! Help! **Fixed it** Much to my chagrin, I've determined that my trunk lid leaks. It's a 2000 Legacy L with a dealer installed OEM wing. Wing was installed when the car was new, fairly sure it's unrelated to the leak, but figured I'd mention it. I've adjusted the latch mechanism as far down as possible, but I was wondering if anybody had any tricks for determining exact location, if anybody's dealt with this before, if it's a known problem, etc... I'm almost thinking the water's coming in around the corner of the trunk lid nearest the passenger doors/back glass, but I'm not sure. There's no light coming in, but the carpet and my stuff was plenty wet yesterday at the car wash. Who's got ideas?
Get inside, have someone spray it with a hose HARD. Dont piss off said person before getting in trunk, so they wont leave.
I'm a bit leery of climbing in the trunk, considering my prime source of help would likely be one of my brothers, who would likely leave me in there for a while. I might have to try that though. I've heard that shaking baby powder on the weatherstripping will at least show you where it's washed through, but I feel like that could make a HUGE mess. Anybody ever tried that?
there's a big glow in the dark handle on the inside of the trunk that will release it... as long as someone fat isn't sitting on the trunk
My trunk does this as well, its not really the trunk but the body after the rear end I was in last spring. The body shop that worked on it didn't do such a great job of putting it back together. I got in my trunk and went to town with silicone. It still leaks a bit though.
So I went back to the car wash today, and watched through the pass-through. Water is coming in right where the trunk meets the weatherstripping along back window line. Is there anyway to adjust the height of the window-side of the trunk lid?
Because I hate leaving open-ended threads in case others have similar problems, here's the conclusion: Went to the Chanhassen Maaco yesterday, because it's right next to the car wash. Guy came out of the shop with a piece of printer paper, shut the paper in the trunk repeatedly to see how much resistance it had while pulling it out. Ended up bending the trunk supports ever so slightly until the paper was held somewhat firmly by the weatherstripping. Ran it through the carwash and it held tight. I'm going to guess that at some point I overpacked or mispacked the trunk, and tweaked it a bit. The lid-to-quarterpanel alignment was EXTREMELY close and symmetrical, so I never suspected this. I guess only 1/16"-1/8" off can make that huge of a difference. Case closed. I can start using my trunk normally again, and washing my car.
Thank you same problem here , where did they bend the supports, how and what did they use to do it? Bfh?
The guy grabbed a piece of 2x4 and propped it between the curved square-tube trunk lid supports and the metal under the rear window. He then GENTLY pushed the trunk lid toward the front of the car to bend the supports, a little bit at a time. Bending the curve tigher on the supports brings the rear-glass side of the trunk lid down tighter.
