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Keep your eye in the spare tire compartment for leaks
- Thread starter robbybenson
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Had a leak same place opposite side when I ran it though a car wash. Hasn’t leaked since by hand washing or rain. Keeping a close eye on it. Waiting to see if it leaks from a hard rain. Not planning on running through many car washes with it. Water leaks was one of my least favorite problems to pin down as a Ford tech.
I suspected I had a leaky Right Rear Quarter panel window and spoke to the local dealer about it. Service Manager hadn't heard about any such issues, though he had another ST coming in for the same complaint, he'd schedule mine after our upcoming SoDak trip. While on the trip, discovered I had a very annoying high pitch whine (Really, it wasn't me) in that same area, then while driving down some washboard dirt roads in the Badlands, heard a constant creak/squeek/damn annoying sound. Had my wife drive with me in the far back and nothing I put pressure on including pushing pretty hard on the RR1/4 window would stop that squeek. So After cleaning off some of them there crickets (see pic below)
We found the trail of water in that quarter window leading down to a ...
.very wet Spare tire well pad
All drying in the sun now, back to the dealer
We found the trail of water in that quarter window leading down to a ...
.very wet Spare tire well pad
All drying in the sun now, back to the dealer
Haha, it actually has to do with the inability to cure in the various ovens in paint. It is designed to expand when heated and if the d-pillar does not get hot enough or if there are material issues that prevent it from expanding properly (the issue is usually the latter not the former), then the immdiate fix is to use an expandable foam sealer to fill in the insealed areas, and the long term fix is to change material or geometry or both to allow the baffle to properly expand and fill the cavity.
Interesting, on the exp/nav the drain tube runs down the C-pillar and it was immediately evident that there was a leak coming from the sunroof area. I’m surprised it made its way all the way back to the D-Pillar, but I also know nothing about the sheet metal and inner workings of the 2020 explorer
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I just discovered this problem in my 2018 Limited. It's a severe thunderstorm happening right now and I parked in the supermarket lot and crawled in the back to get my wet weather floor mats and found water coming through my speaker vent and side panel behind the 3rd row and also on the driver's side behind the third row and coming through the side panel light. I'm seeing this complaint on more than one forum. Ford needs to do something about this.
