this just licks floppy donkey d!!!

Well after having gotten my stereo stolen, a broken console from getting my stereo stolen, dents on the front driver fender, a cracked front lip, and a paint job from Macco that looks like h@ll, I finally found out that my trunk is getting flooded with water.

I ripped out the carpet and saw only one that may cause this, the seal or what ever is connecting the lower part of the trunk to the body may be comming loose. I don't know what's going on it's just a guess. Has this flooding happened to anyone?

 

im my old 87 SC. A nice rain downpour puts a 80's style car swimmign pool in the back. Its usually the weatehr stripping around the hatch.

My firebird gets ghost water somehow in the floor. Dry one afternoon, rains and i dont drive my car, no leaks .. nada, and the carpet is wet . Go figure....

 

Heh, is it in the passenger side footwell?

Could be heater core.

 

My trunk compartment floods too after a heavy steady rain. I haven't figured where it is leaking from yet. I was told that it could be coming from the t-tops but I don't know how. I tried sealing the u-shaped piece that is in the back but it still leaks. When you figure it out let me know so I can fix mine too.

 

Ya i have t-tops and they never ever leak but my trunk on the other hand

 

Nah, its where the backseats were

 

I bet my lunch you have Ttops.

 

My car was doing the same thing, replace the hatch seal. I thought that was not the problem, until I actually saw water coming in from where the metal meets the glass, that is the highest stress point on the seal. Yours will problaby look a little matted there, you should be able to see a depression on the seal where the metal section rests on it. I am happy to report, no more soggy trunk for me.

 

hey mine does the same did u end up fixing it? at first i thought it was my weatherstripping so i replaced that and it didnt work....my power hatch pull down is broken and i am in the middle of replacing it with a different one.....im hoping that is why it leaks now because maybe it isnt pulling the hatch down as much as i should....

 

other side...

 

probably is the pull down, it didnt work when i had it

 

i was just about to post on the same subject. I got about an 1inch thick of water in my trunk. and its winter, here, in rhode island.... so it was all frozen. and, it was a real pain to melt it all and towel it up. this is a brand new problem, and don't think its the T-tops. how could the t-ops put water in the trunck? could it be the rubber around the edge? someone suggested that it could be because of all the condensation in my car when i defrost it. but i don't think thats it, i don't think there is enough water there to make taht much water. and worst... my t-top bags were there...... now they're ruined how do you fix this..... please.

 

I mentioned ttops in reference to what deadtrend was experiencing, water in the -back seat cushions.-

The back hatch is typically one of two issues, either the seal is shot and does not have enough life left in it to seal to the hatch, or the hatch motor is misadjusted whereas the hatch does not close down enough to make a seal with the car. There are a few more options, but these are not nearly as common. They are that the hatch metal section is severly misaligned (whereas it does not come down in the correct area), there are holes in the hatch metal, or the sealing bead that seals the hatch glass to the metal section has a breach in it. Any of these will cause soggy hatch. Try the more common ones I mentioned first. Hatch seals are typically $35 on ebay, and if you cannot find one for a camaro hatch, look for a gbody trunk, it's the same part/ part number.

 

i never had rear trunk leaking problems. but t-tops are another story but got that all fixed.. just had to reseal most of the weatherstriping.