The rear side window seals usually leak and rust the sills out at the front bottom corner. Another point of possible entry.
I had water on the floor behind the drivers seat after this last rain. No idea what the source is. On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 4:57 AM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: > Well the leak remains. We've had a couple heavier rains, water showed up > again on the passenger side. Reduced, but still there. > > I looked at another 124 wagon for sale locally, which has the same issues > as mine: water leak resulting in water in the passenger side footwell and > water also shows up in the third row seating footwell. The seller thought > the water is entering all the way at the rear of the car and migrating > forward. He suspected the rubber seal at the rear hatch is the problem. > > As a test, I parked my wagon facing uphill in our drive last night. My > driveway has a slight downhill slope from the garage to the street, and my > habit has been to park facing out, which is downhill. > > Last night we had very heavy rains, and this a.m. I could not discern any > additional water on the passenger side floorboards. I might be on to > something. I need to check the third row seating footwell, see if that has > water now. > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 7:56 AM Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > We had some rain overnight, not a whole lot but it was heavy for a few > > minutes. > > > > No water inside today, so my confidence in my repair is growing. > However, > > I'm not declaring victory just yet, I still need a nice long heavy rain > to > > provide a more difficult test. > > > > Background: I've had water leaking into my 1987 300TD for years, it > > appears on the passenger side floor boards. I've tried sealing off the > > sunroof and I patched a rust hole in the firewall. Latest repair attempt > > was removing the luggage rail and caulking over a crack in a seam. > > ------------- > > Max > > Charleston SC > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
