Flooded tool box under the rear floor

We have a Land Rover TD4. This weather is causing the rear tool box under the boot floor to be flooded. There is no wet carpet in the boot or on the lid. There are no signs of the seals around the rear window leaking and it is closing properly. I have checked the drains down the side of the window opening and they are clear with water from the top gutter running down inside and exiting from the trim at waist level and running down the outside of the rear door seal. It is happening when parked and there must be some drain hole blocked. Please help if you can.

Search it has happened before to other freelanders you know

Maybe this if your sure you have removed all the seals from the equation..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4EtsYTJ8uE

Good old Land Rover design..

And I have never seen it leaking from here before..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ37BMsxg74

don't worry about it, gain extra street cred, when you tell people you have a sunken bath in back of your motor

Have you removed the carpet out of the boot area completely?

I have same problem with my Freelander 1. Thought it was condensation on cubby hole lid but now I know looks like I'll be taking the carpets out (if it stops raining long enough) and attacking it with silicone sealant.

So yet another water leak to seal on the car.

Thanks for the Info.

man that is a ####ing ****ty design. I would be tempted to drill the spot welds out and use sealant to seal it and rivets to secure. thats pretty crappy

mine has never leaked til this week but it has rained non stop for days.

when i noticed it was damp i came on LZ and performed a search.....not asked a new question about summat that has been done to death.

above is the results of my search

I am having the same problem on my Freelander 1, so I have removed the rear seats ,and carpets ,back door trim . I can see water leaking in ,but I will need to remove the rest of the trim to really find its source, it could be any where , but the tail gate seems favourite , The bad news is that you need to go out in the rain to see it happen , but with it stripped out its dry ish once you climb in . the foam on the carpet is like a sponge so its best out . I don't mind the rear seats removed as I use it for loading up any way .will keep updated on progress.

Hose and watch seals for leaks

Drill a drainage hole in the cubbyhole. Problem solved

i had this, and got my son to put a hose pipe over the back and found it was coming up underneath, sealed it and been ok,

found it easier to take out the carpet and trim so could then check everything and also found the rear door drainage was blocked, when the trim was all out i washed all the carpet to gid rid of the damp smell,

done a search and found an endless amount of info

hope that helps

if unable to cure just plant flowers , lolol

Gary

do it the easy way drill a small hole and forget about it . .

gstuart said:

i had this, and got my son to put a hose pipe over the back and found it was coming up underneath, sealed it and been ok,

found it easier to take out the carpet and trim so could then check everything and also found the rear door drainage was blocked, when the trim was all out i washed all the carpet to gid rid of the damp smell,

done a search and found an endless amount of info

hope that helps

if unable to cure just plant flowers , lolol

Gary

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Possibly dumb question, where might I find rear door drainage? Is that behind the trim?

RE: Lifting the boot carpet up, and seeing a poor fit around the seam of the tool box, and sticking a hose underneath to check for leaks.

If there is a leak spotted with the hose....

As it doesn't rain under the car, is the scientific answer that the car interior is warmer than the outside temperature (generally), so condensation forms inside the boot tool box as it's got a closed lid and over each night time, this makes the tool box lid and carpet damp?

I hope that's the answer and it's a quick bead of bath sealant job rather than a £175 boot seal, again..

mine leaked from the top, where the roof- outside rear trim was secured, water was finding its way through the rusted screw holes,

remove trim and the rusted galvanised bracket and secure black trim with silicone sealant , no leaks

hi

dangermike, if u remove the rear door panel and plastic, u will see right at the bottom of the door small slits that are drainage holes,

inside the bottom of the door i scrapped out old junk, mud etc, then used a tube on a can of wd40 poked it through the holes and liberally sprayed all along the bottom and through the holes

also if u look on top of the roof channel at the rear i also noticed this was full of junk, cleared it all oit, closed the back door and removed the spray gun off the end of my hose pipe so it gave me more volume of water instead of a strong spray, got my son then to hold the hose in different places around the rear door and underneath

gary

john t said:

mine leaked from the top, where the roof- outside rear trim was secured, water was finding its way through the rusted screw holes,

remove trim and the rusted galvanised bracket and secure black trim with silicone sealant , no leaks

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did u find it easy to get the top trim off plse, also do the roof side panels come off easily as well

just want to run some wires down behind them and was just wondering how easy they were to get off,

thks again

gary