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Old 1st March 2014, 02:15 PM
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Are you sure the repair to the grommet nearest the rear windscreen, on the off side, is good?

I tried absolutely everything imaginable before tracing the fault to that one grommet.
My boot lid fills up regularly and its one of the spring/summer jobs i need to get around to. I my case - and having followed this subject for a while - the cause appears to be the perished grommet. But I have to say I am not sure how the amount of water that gets in the lid (a good 1/2 pint) manages to pass upwards through the grommet.
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Old 5th March 2014, 01:25 PM
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I've just been looking at that again, and literally SMOTHERING the entry hole, grommet and pipe with mastic.
I reckon it's the geometry of the roofline and drainage channel; it's seemingly designed that rain swept off the roof is caught by the leading edge of the boot and is supposed to go downwards and exit via the channels either side of the boot lid.
As such it's likely that a lot of water will hit that precise area.
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Old 26th April 2014, 02:43 PM
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Just opened my boot and water poured out as it got vertical!

The cable grommets are both VERY well sealed.

At the bottom edge the central rectangular grommet is open, the round ones at each corner are in place. I popped them out and both were wet behind.

So water is getting in somehow and accumulating at the rear lower edge, limited as I have the central grommet missing.

Look as hard and logically as I can I can't think realistically how.

One possibility is that rain is somehow coming in under the front edge between the rubber seal and the lid, then working up inside the lid. But I would then expect to see water in the boot, and there's none.

The only other area is around the lights and numberplate, but again it all looks well-sealed and could only be rain trickling in while parked.
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2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!

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