Posts by pipsyp
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Yeah to find one with that low miles nowadays is really tough. Thought mine was pretty good at 80k
Man I love the colour, though I am biased!
RE the tailgate, I would just check the state of the 3rd brake light, also the state of the clips which hold the beltline onto the tailgate between the bootlid and glass.
Mine had a leak which appeared to be making its way out between the tailgate and inner bootlid trim making the boot seal wet but thankfully never enough to get into the boot itself.
I changed the handle gasket and the 3rd brake light (which fell apart as I removed it) but it turned out the water was getting in through the beltline trim.
The clips are such a crap design when they break/get loose the tiny gaskets on them disappear and/or they then basically do nothing. The side of the clips that connected to the beltline itself were absolutely fine, it was just either the pinhole clips that held them to the bodywork were shot or the gasket had disappeared so there was no seal. it was also getting my FM diversity box wet so really needed to sort it sharpish.
On mine I decided rather than replace the bodywork clips (as they'd just break again down the line down to the shit design) I used some spray activated epoxy to glue them to the tailgate with the glue acting as a seal on both sides of the clip. I had to do this to all of them from the centre of the beltline (by where the wiper sits) to the right hand side...was about 6 or 7 clips in total I think. The left hand side ones are fine so I've left them for the time being. It's now been bone dry even in the worst weather for months now.
Yours is probably OK but worth checking...certainly if the belt line isn't sat very snug on the tailgate in places this is probably going to be the issue. I reckon probably quite a few people have this issue and never manage to diagnose it.....mines an 06 too so not an old one.
RE the tailgate, I would just check the state of the 3rd brake light, also the state of the clips which hold the beltline onto the tailgate between the bootlid and glass.
Mine had a leak which appeared to be making its way out between the tailgate and inner bootlid trim making the boot seal wet but thankfully never enough to get into the boot itself.
I changed the handle gasket and the 3rd brake light (which fell apart as I removed it
) but it turned out the water was getting in through the beltline trim.The clips are such a crap design when they break/get loose the tiny gaskets on them disappear and/or they then basically do nothing. The side of the clips that connected to the beltline itself were absolutely fine, it was just either the pinhole clips that held them to the bodywork were shot or the gasket had disappeared so there was no seal. it was also getting my FM diversity box wet so really needed to sort it sharpish.
On mine I decided rather than replace the bodywork clips (as they'd just break again down the line down to the shit design) I used some spray activated epoxy to glue them to the tailgate with the glue acting as a seal on both sides of the clip. I had to do this to all of them from the centre of the beltline (by where the wiper sits) to the right hand side...was about 6 or 7 clips in total I think. The left hand side ones are fine so I've left them for the time being. It's now been bone dry even in the worst weather for months now.
Yours is probably OK but worth checking...certainly if the belt line isn't sat very snug on the tailgate in places this is probably going to be the issue. I reckon probably quite a few people have this issue and never manage to diagnose it.....mines an 06 too so not an old one.
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