Help Needed

[albi969]

Hello All,

Just been to the east coast for my hols , anyway Thursday night it absolutely banged it down for around 2 hrs , thunder, lightning , the works.

On Friday morning I opened up the back of my 98 lift-back and lo and behold , there was the ominous sound of water sloshing around in the tail gate. The 2 drain holes in the bottom lip don’t appear to be blocked .

Has any one experienced a similar problem.

Cheers Albi.

[Twincam.GTi]

Has the gromet come out from where the wire for the heated rear window goes in at the top (also wire for where rear wash wipe lead goes in).

Get a thin piece of plastic to poke drain holes clear (may not look blocked but as you 'probe' you may find they are).

Rusting rear tailgates can be a problem with Toyotas (although never had problem myself) so do what I do ... when its all dried out (and a good dry week has been forecast) buy some waxoil and inject it through the drain holes (then clear drainholes again) this will help ward of corrosion.

[albi969]

Has the gromet come out from where the wire for the heated rear window goes in at the top (also wire for where rear wash wipe lead goes in).

Get a thin piece of plastic to poke drain holes clear (may not look blocked but as you 'probe' you may find they are).

Rusting rear tailgates can be a problem with Toyotas (although never had problem myself) so do what I do ... when its all dried out (and a good dry week has been forecast) buy some waxoil and inject it through the drain holes (then clear drainholes again) this will help ward of corrosion.

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Thanks for the info g.t.i. .

Had a look at the points you mention but nothing seems amiss . I've had the panel off that hides all the rear wiper motor and the rest of all the gubbins and cannot see anything unusual this also hides the 2 contacts for the demister at the bottom of the screen . The water now seems to be seeping out through the exterior window rubber when the tailgate is fully raised !!!!! and is still sloshing around merrily..