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I have a persistent leak in to my trunk. Water collects in the corners directly below the brake light assemblies. It appears to be worse (or only happen) when the car is being driven in the rain.
Anyone else have this problem and how to fix?
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Originally posted by Bradness:
It appears to be worse (or only happen) when the car is being driven in the rain.
Holy crap! That's an amazing coincidence!!!
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There are quite a few places it could leak, but these sound like they will help you find it.
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I have been chasing water leaks for a week now. I will list ALL the places I have found leaking. The quarter panel grills, The tailights, The center reflector, The trunk weatherstrip, The antenna, and two small leaks in the seam sealer near the tips of the quarters above the taillights. All this stuff is shrinking due to age. And mine spends most of the time (evenings anyway) garaged. Time to weld up the antenne hole and roof mount it, Remove the bumper cover and install new grills, and dum-dum the trunk seal. Ballz.
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i have the same problem, everytime my car is in rain stuff on the right side of my trunk gets soaked. I've just been too lazy to look into it. So if you find out lemme know.. 
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Before I climb in the trunk with a flashlight, I thought I'd post. Seems I'm not the only 1 experiencing this problem. And yes, I knew about the grille seal problems.
OK now to start ripping things apart...
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Originally posted by stylin550:
i have the same problem, everytime my car is in rain stuff on the right side of my trunk gets soaked. I've just been too lazy to look into it. So if you find out lemme know..
Or you could read the links posted. 
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I am having the trunk leakage also. Along with other problems.
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ALso check the spoiler. My step-kids always opened the trunk by the spoiler no matter how much I yelled at them not to. I ended up having to replace the bolt & repaint it, that stopped my trunk leaks.
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