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pchristy
V4 Guru

United Kingdom
1790 Posts

Posted - 07 Dec 2019 :  11:54:08 Show Profile Reply with Quote
All the years I've had my current V4 (11, now!), its suffered from a leak into the boot. Being a '71 car, its meant to have the seal that glues to the lid, but I've never been able to find one - until now! The ones that clip around the body simply don't work, and get damaged by the hinges!

Now its over 40 years since I sold my original '69 car, and that never leaked - but I can't remember how the seal was meant to fit! One side of the seal is shamfered, so that obviously has to go against the curve where the lid meets the strengthening skinning. BUT, it could go on two ways, and I have no idea which is correct!

If anyone has a car with an original boot seal (that doesn't leak!), could you post some pictures - preferably close-up - so I can see which way round to fit it, please? (Flat against the inside of the lid, or "vertical" against the strengthening skinning)

I've trawled the internet to no avail, and none of my workshop manuals - not even the factory one - mentions this seal at all!

Cheers,

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Pete
"Duct tape is like the Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together!"

green96v4
V4 Mad

Canada
737 Posts

Posted - 07 Dec 2019 :  17:53:12 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Original boot lid from my car (which didn't make the grade for the restoration, so I have no reason to believe this isn't the original seal)




Hollow D shape profile which is readily available from seal/molding stores and sites, I used contact adhesive to re-adhere mine



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pchristy
V4 Guru

United Kingdom
1790 Posts

Posted - 07 Dec 2019 :  18:33:20 Show Profile Reply with Quote
That's great! Just what I needed to know!

Many thanks!

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Pete
"Duct tape is like the Force: It has a light side and a dark side, and it binds the Universe together!"
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andydeans3
V4 Guru

United Kingdom
1994 Posts

Posted - 08 Apr 2020 :  18:57:02 Show Profile Reply with Quote
Pete
Make sure that it IS the boot lid that's leaking, and not the rear screen. After many failed attempts to get my boot lid to seal, I recently realised that it was actually a small drip coming from the rear screen.
I was lying inside the boot, with a torch, with my wife fine spraying the back of the car, to discover this!
I've now pumped sealant into the rear screen seal,between rubber and body, and rubber and glass, and that seems to have sorted it, FINALLY!

1978 LHD SAAB 96
1978 MGB Roadster
2008 LHD "Classic" Renault Twingo
1991 Nissan Figaro
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