catgate
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I suppose it could be called a boot. What ever it is called it is in reality that space beneath the floor where the spare wheel lives, along with the inevitable attendant string, aerosols, rusty spanners, mould ham sandwiches etc.
A couple of weeks ago, when I went looking for a piece of strong string, I was amazed, and disappointed, to find a veritable lake.
I had the "wheel brace" (wrapped in an old towel to stop rattling) tucked in the gap between the "floor" behind the rear seats and the metel pressing forming the base of the spare wheel well, on the near side of the body.The towel was saturated, as was everything else in "the boot".
I took everything out, removed the lowest sealing grommet and the tide went out quickly enough. I could see no obvious sign of ingress though plainly there must have been one.
Some couple of weeks before we had traveled from North Lincs. to our home near Pocklington in a most "Exciting" thunder storm, which accompanied us all the way, and so I wondered if conditions were such that the normal water shedding provisions were overfaced. However after I had cleaned everything up and dried every thing out, I replaced only the really necessary stuff, but I did put a rolled up towel (the same one including wheelbrace) into the gap under the off side of the boot. the same night it rained!
The next morning the towel was wet. Not to the same extent as previously on the nearside, but sufficient to show that both sides were suffering water ingress. It could possibly be that the water had entered at the same place as before and just meandered round the back under the floor...but then again maybe not.
So I am writing all this twaddle in the hope that someone might be able to shed some light on this matter.
I find it very disappointing to own a Merecedes that is porous. My previous three were all had watertight bodies,
A couple of weeks ago, when I went looking for a piece of strong string, I was amazed, and disappointed, to find a veritable lake.
I had the "wheel brace" (wrapped in an old towel to stop rattling) tucked in the gap between the "floor" behind the rear seats and the metel pressing forming the base of the spare wheel well, on the near side of the body.The towel was saturated, as was everything else in "the boot".
I took everything out, removed the lowest sealing grommet and the tide went out quickly enough. I could see no obvious sign of ingress though plainly there must have been one.
Some couple of weeks before we had traveled from North Lincs. to our home near Pocklington in a most "Exciting" thunder storm, which accompanied us all the way, and so I wondered if conditions were such that the normal water shedding provisions were overfaced. However after I had cleaned everything up and dried every thing out, I replaced only the really necessary stuff, but I did put a rolled up towel (the same one including wheelbrace) into the gap under the off side of the boot. the same night it rained!
The next morning the towel was wet. Not to the same extent as previously on the nearside, but sufficient to show that both sides were suffering water ingress. It could possibly be that the water had entered at the same place as before and just meandered round the back under the floor...but then again maybe not.
So I am writing all this twaddle in the hope that someone might be able to shed some light on this matter.
I find it very disappointing to own a Merecedes that is porous. My previous three were all had watertight bodies,
