Author: NWRPodder
Subject: Water In Rear Storage Bay
Posted: 18 Sep 2016 at 11:41pm
I searched and couldn't find anything about this on this forum yet if there is a thread already don't hesitate to point me to it and we can close this one. I am new to this forum and generally to Rpod world and is one of a few questions I have so far.
My question is what might be causing water to show up inside of the rear storage areas when driving in wet weather?
The first time this happened I only closed the turn latch and didn't lock the lock side. I figured not doing that allowed for a very small area for water to spray up into there. However, this last time everything was closed up and locked tight. Yet after getting home from about 2+ hours on the road (much of it wet and or rainy) the storage bays had enough water that I had take most of the contents out to dry and use a towel to dry it up.
The front storage area was dry which I would expect all around. Looking in the back the upper part of the walls and ceiling were all dry so I know it's definitely not coming from the top.
Has anyone else had this issue? Do we have a defect to fix? Driving twice now in wet roads I have had to clean up the storage bay which is a real pain to do each time.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have on this. BTW it's for a 2016 R178.
Subject: Water In Rear Storage Bay
Posted: 18 Sep 2016 at 11:41pm
I searched and couldn't find anything about this on this forum yet if there is a thread already don't hesitate to point me to it and we can close this one. I am new to this forum and generally to Rpod world and is one of a few questions I have so far.
My question is what might be causing water to show up inside of the rear storage areas when driving in wet weather?
The first time this happened I only closed the turn latch and didn't lock the lock side. I figured not doing that allowed for a very small area for water to spray up into there. However, this last time everything was closed up and locked tight. Yet after getting home from about 2+ hours on the road (much of it wet and or rainy) the storage bays had enough water that I had take most of the contents out to dry and use a towel to dry it up.
The front storage area was dry which I would expect all around. Looking in the back the upper part of the walls and ceiling were all dry so I know it's definitely not coming from the top.
Has anyone else had this issue? Do we have a defect to fix? Driving twice now in wet roads I have had to clean up the storage bay which is a real pain to do each time.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have on this. BTW it's for a 2016 R178.