I've had my car 9 months now and, not long after I got it, I began suspecting water ingress to the interior. Tell-tale signs like I began noticing light condensation in the top corners of the rear screen, a slightly damp feeling interior. Then one day I lifted the thin boot cover and there were beads of moisture on the battery, tool kit, and elsewhere. Since then it seems to have either got worse or maybe I'd driven through too many deep puddles... or something. I'd left an old bed sheet in the back from when I'd recently collected a bag of cement from my local builders' merchant, and a week later the sheet was wringing wet.
I have read that one of the more likely sources for leaks at the rear is the two vents that hide behind the bumper, but when I read about the convoluted process of bumper removal, I had to go to the toilet and then have a quiet half hour in a darkened room.
I washed it a day or two ago and gave the tailgate a good blasting with the hose... just in case. Nothing there.
So, my question is... before I gird my loins and begin destroying my car in the process of bumper removal only to find there is nothing wrong with the vents... is there a diagnostic pathway I can follow? It would seem to be a sensible precautionary alternative to just going gung-ho on the rear bumper.
I have read that one of the more likely sources for leaks at the rear is the two vents that hide behind the bumper, but when I read about the convoluted process of bumper removal, I had to go to the toilet and then have a quiet half hour in a darkened room.
I washed it a day or two ago and gave the tailgate a good blasting with the hose... just in case. Nothing there.
So, my question is... before I gird my loins and begin destroying my car in the process of bumper removal only to find there is nothing wrong with the vents... is there a diagnostic pathway I can follow? It would seem to be a sensible precautionary alternative to just going gung-ho on the rear bumper.