Wheel well in boot filling with water - P38

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

My P38 - 2000 vogue is letting water into the wheel well in the boot when it rains. Reading the forums on this I thought I had sussed it when someone referred to a sunroof drain pipe coming apart - then I remembered that I haven’t got a sunroof...

The seal around the boot looks OK - and there is no rust or damage to the lip that the seal sits on.

Are there any other routes in that I can check for?

Cheers

Nick

Datatek · Oct 21, 2019

Salisbury Nick said:
My P38 - 2000 vogue is letting water into the wheel well in the boot when it rains. Reading the forums on this I thought I had sussed it when someone referred to a sunroof drain pipe coming apart - then I remembered that I haven’t got a sunroof...

The seal around the boot looks OK - and there is no rust or damage to the lip that the seal sits on.

Are there any other routes in that I can check for?

Cheers

Nick

There is a mod, bending the seal mounting flange at the top corners if I remember correctly.

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

Hi

Datatek said:
There is a mod, bending the seal mounting flange at the top corners if I remember correctly.

Hi Datatek - thanks - is that to avoid replacing the seal or is it a fix to another issue?

DanClarke · Oct 21, 2019

Do you mean to say that the wheel well is not supposed to fill up with water?

brianp38dse · Oct 21, 2019

Bending the seal flange was in a JLR technical bulletin sent out to dealers, tis the official fix

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

DanClarke said:
Do you mean to say that the wheel well is not supposed to fill up with water?

I would not mind if this type of activity was where the water came from - but this is fine, its rain that floods it!

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

brianp38dse said:
Bending the seal flange was in a JLR technical bulletin sent out to dealers, tis the official fix

Thanks Brian - how can I find the description of how to bend the flange?

Grrrrrr · Oct 21, 2019

What's the seal around the boot button like?

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

There's a seal round the boot button?

Grrrrrr · Oct 21, 2019

Salisbury Nick said:
There's a seal round the boot button?

There is on mine.

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

To be honest though, it's quite a lot of water coming in - so even if the whole button was missing I think it would be difficult to get that much water in.
The bottom of the well is really sound though - it must be quite a recent development. I have dried it out thoroughly then it's ****ed down for a few days and when I check it again its got an inch or two of water in it.

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

I'll check it.

Grrrrrr · Oct 21, 2019

Maybe a few carp and a tench?

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

Is it safe to assume, in the absence of a sun roof, that there are no other channels/pipes etc that could lead water to drain into the boot? And despite how it looks - I mean it is 20 years old - is it is most likely to be the boot seal?

Grrrrrr · Oct 21, 2019

That would be my bet.

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

I'd probably be able to nurture a decent Wels Catfish!

Salisbury Nick · Oct 21, 2019

Thanks - I'll get a new seal and try that.

Datatek · Oct 22, 2019

Salisbury Nick said:
Thanks - I'll get a new seal and try that.

Better to do the mod and bend the flange out a few mm, then a thin smear of silicone grease on the face of the seal. It fixed mine and cost nothing.

wammers · Oct 22, 2019

Tap the boot seal seat lip outwards 5 mm around the curve where the upper and lower tailgates meet.

kermit_rr · Oct 22, 2019

If it doesn't fill full of water, how will you top up the coolant when you're out and about!?

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