I’ve tried (gently) prying with a flat blade, but it has not moved. I don’t like applying too much force when I don;t know how it is meant to come off (if at all).
I am presuming it is to see behind the badge, which is loose.
Any ideas ?
I have a theory water sprays up, gets behind at either the badge or the “grommet” and then flows into the boot as the panel is hollow here.
Either that or the rear light cluster needs a new seal, but that is not 100% conclusive yet.
Defo also got seepage around the high brake light, but that is for another day.
From your description, it’s the rectangular black plastic blanking plug between the two number plate lights. Lift boot lid and you need a small flat pry tool or screwdriver, looking at it with boot open, from left hand short edge push the plastic tang which you can’t see behind the blanking plate, horizontally from the left and prise out. Insertion is the reverse, engage on right side and just push it back in place. It’s outside the boot seal so water won’t get in via that, but just runs down the outside, behind the bumper panel. Is the boot seal itself OK, they can wear and split. Failing that, the rear light cluster seal possibly?
Barrie
EDIT; just looked at your ppicture which doesn’t actually show anything? Are your roof drains clear? Is the carpet floor wet behind the seats?
EDIT; just re read the last sentence, high level brake light seal more than likely the culprit IMO.
Boot seal has a few nicks, but lower down. I’ve been hosing it to try and find the ingress
I don’t think it is the light cluster, due to the water appearing 1/2 way down the boot. I used newspaper and there was no trail to it, it just dripped from above (left hand side, above “well”).
Hiya, yes but just shows a half open boot lid no sign of your blanking plate image. If you use something like postimage to host your forum pics, you can insert the picture directly, so they show up on your posts, makes it easier for folk reading it rather than copy and paste into the search bar on theor browser, There’s a guide on here to help?
I read a thread where someone sprinkled talcum powder in his boot, this helped identify the source of the leak by leaving a trail where it had washed out.
Check your deck plate bolts are tightened down, i had one loose and had a slight drip there. Deck plates are the chrome strips each side on the rear panel behind the boot lid, they exist for the attachment of an hard top.
The black plastic blank can be prised out, here’s a picture of my boot lid after I removed it, gives you an idea how it fits, the hole on the left.
Don’t beat yourself up about it, the thing is, a lot of these cars suffer from these niggles, mine included it’s part of the joys of owning one I guess? If you like tinkering, these cars are great fun (until something goes wrong!) you’ll get to the bottom of it I’m sure, in the meantime, enjoy using it, better weather hopefully coming
Mines been up on ramps for the last two days, currently got a part off it (one of the engine/gearbox cover plates) looks worse for wear. Also doing some under body treatment, my missus told me I look like I’ve been down a coal mine too old for this now
I removed mine and drilled a 10mm hole through it and fitted a blue LED then fitted white LED’s to the number plate lights.
At night it throws a gentle purple and white hue across my number plate, looks rather interesting…and no you can’t see the blue LED unless you get your head below the boot lid.
