Help! Water in boot!

[Totos owner]

I had to change a tyre yesterday. Found some water sloshing around in the spare wheel well. Some spots of rust too. Pls advise:
1. Any idea how the water got in? The boot is dry.
2. Should I sand the rust spots and slop primer on or leave it till the next service (due in Feb '14) ?
Dont want to go back to the ASC anytime soon - painful experience.

 

[sludgeguts]

Could be a grommet missing from the wheel well - so water splaashing up off the road?
Could just be condensation.
But most likely is the seal around the boot or around the rear window/hatch. The boot isn't a flat surface so it might be possible for water to run into the well & not come into contact with the carpet.

You could lift the carpet & line with paper then get in the car & have someone pour lashings of water over the rear end OR do the old trick with a smoke bomb.

Once the area is thoroughly dry, deal with the rust spots, attack them with the wire brush, apply something like kurust (turns rust back to metal or dissolves loose rust can't remember which), then plenty of red lead (or whatever the fave is these days)

 

[Totos owner]

Thanls mate, will try that.

 

[Totos owner]

I meant Thanks

 

[Totos owner]

Found the reason. It's debris washed down behind the tail light that blocked the rainwater and made it take the alternative route thru the boot seal and into the spare wheel well. Cleaned out the debris and we're home and dry - so to speak.

 

[Ziggy122]

Found the reason. It's debris washed down behind the tail light that blocked the rainwater and made it take the alternative route thru the boot seal and into the spare wheel well. Cleaned out the debris and we're home and dry - so to speak.

Any rust formed from the water sitting

Get it ground out - treat it with rust treatment - then get it sprayed in to a near matching colour

All DIY work

Ziggy

 

[Totos owner]

Had to take him in for a strut mount replacement anyway so had them do the painting. So now we're good as new.