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At the end of this winter, I found this exact problem in my son's 95 900S - water in soaking the covering of the trunk, some water in the spare tire area, mostly concentrated on the left side. My first attempt to fix the problem was to seal around the rear tail lights (hearing that the foam inside the light housing tended to leak over time). Of course, next rainstorm, it was wet again. This time I took the whole trunk apart and found two possible culprits.
- The antenna was not secured tightly to the fender. It could be easily moved by hand and you could see light around it. I tightened it up, but didn't see a lot of tell-tale wetness in that immediate area
- Sunroof/antenna drain location - this is where the wetness seemed to congregate most. In that corner is a rubber grommet with two entry points - one for the sunroof drain hose and one for the radio drain hose. I did a sample drain of the sunroof down that side and it drained out the bottom, but in removing the hose and grommet itself, I found it didn't fit too tightly and had some gunk inside the grommet itself so it was partially blocking the flow (it has a cross-hatch insert on the bottom so it catches things just like a sink drain basket would). I cleaned it out, put the grommet back, used some silicone to seal the grommet to the opening in the trunk. I also made sure both drain hoses were seated completely and put some silicone around those connections, mostly to make sure they didn't back out.
These were the only two places I figure water would get in, looking at the water pattern. The hatch showed no leaking (either inside the hatch near the rear wiper area, or where the wires go into the hatch further up). Nothing on top was wet - it was all soaked from underneath. I took the CD changer out ( my install) to dry the mat, and put some silicone on the screws when putting the player back in, just in case (I had sealed them when I first installed the changer, so I don't think that was aproblem).
We'll be having our first soaking rain since my fix tomorrow, so we'll see if I was successful or not. :-)
andy
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