My rear speakers are leaking?

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By Scott Hayes (Scott_H) on Saturday, December 01, 2001 - 09:14 pm: Edit

its been raining here in Nor Cal and I have noticed that the bottom of my rear speakers seem to have water comming out of em. Is this due to my upper windows leaking? Any suggestions?

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By Kristian on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 11:43 am: Edit

I'm right there with you, Scott. I think both of my alpine windows have small leaks. One drips straight down, and the other runs out the speaker hole. Had a nice little puddle near the cubbies in back. I'm sure that contributed to my under-the-carpet rust collection.

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By Moe on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 12:04 pm: Edit

I am going out to re-address my leaking speaker syndrome in a few minutes. Last time, over a year ago, I found that water was actually coming through a metal seam just below the gutter. You will have to remove most inside trim to see the actual leak. Water collects in the rear gutter and finds its way over and under the gutter and into the seam. I will probably tear part off the corner gutter and try and squeeze silicon into the seam. Other people have found the 'leaking speaker' also related to leaking rear windows--the water flows in the same direction and drips on speaker. If I can't fix it, I am thinking about devising a water catchment system that drains to a permanent water tank

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By Marc Ingham on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 12:25 pm: Edit

I have just noticed the same problem. I have what appear to be stress cracks in the body seam filler above and below the gutter at the driver-side-rear corner of my 95 Disco. I am debating what to do. I am contemplating silicone from the inside and some type of body putty/filler from the outside. I have to do something, because it really pours through my speaker when it rains.

Anybody have any luck with this problem? Any recommendations?

-Marc

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By Moe on Sunday, December 02, 2001 - 07:45 pm: Edit

Ok, here is what I did today and should know by tonight if it worked. I removed the small piece of black plastic that wraps around the rear gutter. The metal clips pop right off but I destroyed the plastic in the process. After cleaning up all the previous attempts to fix the problem, I paid attention to cleaning under the gutter especially above the join in the body seam where the quarter panel is butted to the rear corner panel. I could see a small hole at the top of this seam that had been partly covered by the dealer 'fix'. I believe that hole is the source of the water that would leak through a metal seam on the inside, although I did not test this. I then forced silicon into that hole and along the top edge of the seam. I also smeared some silicon in the gutter itself. The inner panels are removed so I can give it a good test once it dries.

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of pageLink to this message   By gp (Garrett) on Monday, December 03, 2001 - 08:19 am: Edit

have the same issues on my '96. culked the hell out of my gutter and all is well. well at least for now. doing the same as all you have said.....alpines, speakers and so on. was real fun finding the leak though. but moe's suggestion sounds great. that should really take care of it.


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