Nice. I didn't even realize the spoilers were bolted on like that- I thought they were essentially double-sided tape'd on like many spoilers are.

 

 

I'd imagine that should do'er.

 

Welp, it's been 7 years since I fixed the roof rail cracks with silicone and I've got water in my spare tire area again. Time to re-seal. Just noting it here.

 

Lucky. Mine never really stopped, despite me resealing. It got super smaller leak that I just need to dry the trunk a bit from time to time. But I also have the water in the right side passenger foot well area for years, I did not know about it. Spotted it 2 years ago.. and I had a rusty hole in the floor I have fixed. Not in the best way, for now. It need better repair. It is a shame because the floors used to be super clean. But for the trunk it was only leaking during huge Storm. I haven't visited this forum in a long time. I realized that previous post about the spoiler bolts.
I figured that it was probably my problem all along.

 

As mentioned, I have water in my spare tire area again, so have to reseal. I noticed that the cracks have grown in the 7 years since I last looked at them- check this out:




In my opinion, it's pretty amazing how the cracks have progressed in 7 years. The upper right section now looks like it's about to lose a rectangular chunk altogether, and notice how a crack emerged near the overlapping arch-shaped piece of sheet metal towards the bottom. It extends underneath the weather stripping, so I pulled that back and sealed it up too:





The left side is harder to see because of the rubber wire protector, but it has also seen the cracking progress significantly in 7 years:



Finally, the hinges themselves have seen some cracking appear around them. The right side is the worse of the two. Here's a pic of that:




The cracking around the roof rails is a little nuts to me. It seems as though eventually the only real solution may be to do some small scale real bodywork, wire-wheeling or grinding out the old seam sealer and applying brand new stuff.

 

All that cracking is just sealant though, and not the welds underneath, right? That's quite annoying but thankfully not the end of the world. I haven't noticed any leaks in mine but I haven't really looked at the sealant itself yet.

 

Yep, just seam sealer. Not the end of the world, just annoying.

 

That is pretty crazy to see, im going to have to go look at mine and see how things are looking. Thanks for the long term update!!!

 

I scraped out as much old sealant as I could and applied some Lepage Quad Sealant

 

Lol that was extremely wrong. After a decent amount of rain, my spare wheel well was like half full of water and I could hear sloshing sounds when braking. I applied some sealant at the roof gutters and hinges and it seemed to have solved it so far. Of course now my Miata's trunk is leaking, which it never did before so the fun continues!

 

i have recently bought honda jazz sport and found out a week later the boot is leaking. went to many garages they just push the boot tubber and says it won’t leak again. but its still leaking.

and im from Uk and always rain here. very streesed. can anyone help?

i have sealed the roof area but still thecwater is coming to the boot inhave attach the picture where the water is dropping from and i have put silicone to direct tge water to spare tyre instead of water lgoing to passenger seat

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In addition to the usual spots (cracks either side of the hatch hinges and in the roof guttering, hatch/strut bolt holes, damage around the rubber seal, separated plastic barrier in the rear doors), you could try sealing around the brake lights. Mine was leaking water in behind one. A trick to tracing the leak is to put drops of different coloured food colouring in different spots to see where the water is trickling in. Good luck!

 

thank god i found this site.
turns out two weeks after a bought a 2008 first generation Honda fit, i noticed that when i rained, the lining above the column where the seat belt is attached was getting soaked and stained. Water was coming in.


went to some mechanics and they said the rubbers around the doors was to blame. It was not making sense to me because clearly water wasn't coming from the doors.
Asked on reddit and they recommended this site, and i couldn't believe when i found this topic telling me to check the roof solder joint points.
upon inspection i noticed some cracks near the windshield and hatch cover.





So i bought myself a polyurethane compound and applied over the small cracks.







The results? Problem 100% solved, no more water in the roof lining, no more bad smell after taking a rain 👌.

thanks for all this valuable info, in my country i couldn't find answers for this issue, it was driving me crazy!

 

I may look at doing this as well.

 

Well I find myself dealing with this issue. I had no idea why my car smelled like dirty boot water. Well I found a pool under my spare tire. Check this out.

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checked my seal. Seems fine. I checked around the struts for the hatch and seem fine. Even the bottom of the cover is dry and no signs of water trickling down into the spare tire. Any idea where this water continues to come from?

 

Check the tail light gaskets?

 

have not checked that yet as I haven’t pulled out my taillights. Those gaskets are real cheap at about $23 a pop. But I did pop open my access covers to change the bulbs and didn’t see any sign of water in that area. So that would mean the gaskets are fine and the water isn’t coming from there no?

Huge rainstorm last night. I think it’s coming from the right side as I noticed a stream this morning. The foam under the centre interior panel by the latch was soaked too. I just have no idea where from the right it’s coming from.