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16th December 2021, 16:35 | #1 |
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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.
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16th December 2021, 17:28 | #2 |
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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.
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16th December 2021, 18:25 | #3 |
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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 |
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I see you've not done a lot of posting in the last TEN years.--Zero-- Mine leaked in around the rear lights. A bit of clear bathroom silicone ten years ago and dry ever since.--- |
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17th December 2021, 10:40 | #6 | |
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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. 😂
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17th December 2021, 12:05 | #7 |
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Also, at the time of the water leak into the boot of my car I did what lots of others have done.--I drilled a few 1/8 diameter holes through the floor of the boot to let the pond out.
The gold fish were not best pleased.-- |
17th December 2021, 16:00 | #8 |
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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. |
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17th December 2021, 16:56 | #10 |
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I like it!!
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