Rover 75 water ingress
 

Is there anyone in the south of England who has sucessfully stopped water leaking into the boot, and would be happy to help me do the same to my 75 classic. I would drive to the person concerned, if not too far away, and pay any costs involved.

I'd advise you remove your email address, posting it on an open forum can attract spam. Anybody wanting to contact you can use the personal message system.

welcome to the forum.
where in the boot are you finding water?
There are seals behind the rear lenses that can fail. A memeber here does replacements. The water can often work its way down into the spare wheel well.

Another place water can get in is via some retaining pegs under the chrome trim at the bottom of the rear screen. This is a bit more of a complex fix.

The third place is via the chrome strilp that runs along the rear panels.

Try to determine where water is getting in so we can help a bit more on how to solve it, it may be something you can do.

As alredy said, do remove your email address as non forum members can see it too.

macafee2

Wot he said. Multitude of leak points and how to's that fix them. There are some novel suggestions as to how to find these damn leaks, depends, but I'd suggest you work through the 4-5 most common one's first. Silicon will work but IMHO the best sealer jallop is Sikaflex 521UV together with Sika Aktivator 205, bit more expensive than silicon but made for the job.

One thing to think about when using sealants that many forget until when it's too late is...................how easy will it be to get the thing apart in the future if needed. 🤔😉


I had to help a good neighbour a few years ago who had successfully re-sealed a roof window on his motorhome with the excellent sealant, Sikaflex 521 UV, it is good stuff and well worth the couple of quid extra for the activator



Then the window and frame got damaged by a branch so the whole lot had to be replaced, normally an easy, gentle, afternoon four brew job.


Not so, he hadn't noticed that it serves two different but combined functions that of a sealant and a tenacious adhesive. 🤣


The only saving grace was that due to the frame being damaged I could cut it in sections making it easier to ' unstick it ' and didn't have the fun of removing the residue from the frame, only from the roof, a time consuming task.


Being retired I do many jobs for mates rates, I don't want any payment unless I've had to purchase anything, I just enjoy being busy, he knows this so a few bottles of red wine turned up, as he said it's good for my heart. 😂

When I bought my first 75 it had about 6cm of rain sloshing about in the well so drill and release was the order of the day.

Eventually found it was the side mouldings - easy fix.

Many thanks. I've checked the rear lights and resealed them. I don't think it's the side mouldings but will check. As you say the retaining pegs under the chrome trim may be part of the problem, but I have not been able to get at them! (I think it's getting in higher than the chrome strip). Also the fuel pump packed up recently and I discovered pools of water under the rear seat! Unfortunately I'm an octagenarian and not too easy to do these jobs! Thank for taking the trouble to reply.

I like it!!