water in hatch area

first time this has happened in this car....no panels were wet, and the underside of the rear carpet was wet, not the top....

have no idea as to how it got in.......and ideas :dunno:

I get the same thing...it sux... I thought it was coming in through my taillights..(I have seen alot of people have this problem) but when I ran the hose on the car one day, it was actually coming in through the driver side rear hatch window.

I need to replace a seal or something... It's not too bad yet... At least not as bad as the river that pours in through my pass side window every time it rains... :rolleyes: poor passengers....at least I'm dry.. :smokin:

I thought it was coming in through my taillights..(I have seen alot of people have this problem)

That's the problem I had - water coming in behind the taillights & filling up my spare tire well. Didn't help that I sealed the drain hole in the spare tire well either. I had a damn lake goin' on in there.

I only had the problem when I had my clear tail lights though. Never had a problem with leaks when I had the stock tails, or my altezza's...

me i dont have this problem....... prolly due to my whole my spare tire well!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahahah i gotta get that fixed, i prolly just fiber glass a patch on their some time..... i had an problem one year though for some reason, this is during the winter, right behind my driver seat there was a huge puddle maybe like half an inch of water and i would suck it up with my wet dry vac and withina couple of weeks it would start to get wet but no puddle.... and so during the winter it was wet there.... just hoping it wont do it again...

I had this problem too (at least I think I fixed it). Check the usual spots (tail light seals, weather striping etc), but also check the air ducts in the hatch drip channel (black flat oval things) because the seals dry up and fall apart. They just pull out and they can be resealed with silicone sealant. Also, pull off the weather stripping near the bottom of the hatch opening (latch area). The pinch welds were rusty in this area on my car and I had some perforations to repair. I also removed the black rubber roof stips (be careful, there is an aluminium backing material and bends easily) and found some cracks in the body putty seals (also near the hatch) and repaired them as well. After all that I think I nailed down all the leaks.

Hi hdcivicinb18, glad to see another Upstater on the board. Welcome! :wave:

just put plexi glass over it and fill it full of gold fish... get extra points at shows :evillol:

LOL....that made me think of that pimp in I'm Gonna Get You Sucka :lol:

LOL! That's awesome! Nice pic! :rofl: