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/// KAMI
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:41 am

I took the car cover of and found loads of water in where the jack is and the inside is all steamed what can i do to get rid of the water and steam inside...

The car cover did not do much of a job i guess..... :?

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Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:53 am

Aerial?
Drainage things?
Mines doing the exact same but mines got everything wrong with it
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:07 am

Mine is a little wet, use some towels to dry it up.
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:09 am

He wants to stop water getting in there not just dry it up.
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:13 am

Most likely culprit will be your rear arches dude, take the rear wheel off and have a good look around the inside of the arch. If there's any gap between the two skins inside the arch, water is being flung up by the wheels and forced into the boot. Now have a look inside the boot where the two metal skins are joined together, if you see any holes / gaps, that'll be your culprit.
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:15 am

WeBuyAnyCar wrote:He wants to stop water getting in there not just dry it up.
/// KAMI wrote:what can i do to get rid of the water and steam inside...
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:16 am

Joker obviously he knows to get rid of it with towel or similar.
He means how to stop it getting there
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:39 am

no wonder we are running short of bandwidth ...you lot don't believe in using the search facility :x

why try and reinvent the wheel ...this is the last thread on this ...there have been many others before :roll:

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... +holes#top
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:08 pm

i had the problem when it rain exceptionaly hard so for a kwik fit i drilled holes and painted around (to stop rust occuring)
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:57 pm

I too have the same problem! Found out it was the rubber around the arieal letting the water in!!
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Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:02 pm

i thought that but i had it in both sides so i sealed the feul rubbers but it carried on. i think it may come trough the sunroof and run down beacuse they are all one peice
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