I have a Camaro, with TTops, yet they arent leaking, and if they were my seats would be wet. One area where it is wet, is behind the driver seat, but on the floor, in front of back seat, underneath the mat. I have no idea how that gets, maybe from when washing car it might get through driverside window. But I'm not sure, why is this wet?

Now the other area that is almost constantly wet. It is the trunk, the lowest part of the trunk, where it dips down. Whenever I wash my car it is soaking, and I mean soaking wet. How would this get wet? The hatch is closed everythings good, how does the water get there? I always have to put a towel there, I haven't checked after rain if it gets wet however. The other day in the morning the windows on the inside had frost because of the water in the towel.

Does anybody else have these wet problems? Where is it leaking? How can I stop it already?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Tom

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I have the same wet trunk problem. Check in between where the glass comes down to the body panel... not on the sides but on the top... water leaks in there, collects on the plastic and when the plastic overflows it leaks... run a bead of RTV along the glass and panel to stop the leaks, or do it right and replace the gasket/weatherstripping there.

 

Check the weather strip on the rear deck. If this is not sealing tight then water runs down on the inside of the car behind the plastic that is the arm rest, speaker grill. The other possiblity is that the floor has rusted though. If this is the case then the weather stripping has failed and has allowed water to accummolate in the floor panels.

 

Check on the hinges for the hatch back, this is where mine leaks sometimes. Or the only other place is possibly through where your tail lights are?? I would check these places for the trunk wetness.

 

You may not think it's the T-tops, but it probably is...

The way they leak, is for water to get between the rubber and the painted part of the body. They do not usually leak where the rubber meets the glass. Water that gets behind the rubber and runs toward the outside will end up coming out from behind the rubber right above the B-pillar moulding, so it will run down the inside of the moulding and the rear seat kick panel, and get to the floor. You may never see any water but that doesn't mean the T-tops aren't leaking. Water that gets behind the rubber and goes toward the center of the car will leak onto the piece of trim between the headliner and the back glass, and drip off the screws onto the trunk.

The trunk probably gets its water from where the painted piece attaches to the rear of the back glass.You can take the interior trim off of that, and there are several large nuts that hold that piece on to the glass; take those off, clean everything up, and then seal in between there with windshield sealer, that kind that's a thick rope-like strip of spooge that you lay on the part to be sealed. Make sure to put some on the threads of the studs. That's the place Xeno is talking about. I would never use silicone in a place like that, it won't last and will look ghetto.

 

I'm gonna go with gmanuel on this one -- I just fixed the same problem on my '91 Firebird.

The weatherstripping looked fine to me, yet water would collect in the bottom of the hatchback area... I waited until it rained hard one time and cracked the hatch open just a bit and noticed that a little water was sitting on top of a barely weaker part of the left rear weatherstripping... I still wasn't sure this was the problem, until I replaced the weatherstripping (you can get it for like $30-40 from Autozone online) and I've had no leaks since, through some big rainstorms.

Good luck!

Oh yeah, it probably is your T-Top weather stripping, too. These are a rip-off from GM. Maybe you can find some cheaper ones somewhere.