Gave the old girl her yearly wash. must have been a year, judging by how dirty she was.. Anyway 2 thing came of this.
1) I have conclusively and finally identified where the water gets into the boot/storage well in the FL1. Comes down the outside of the glass, past the rubber and into the door. At this point it drops down the door and somehow gets onto the door liner, and drips from there down onto the plastic threshold across the rear of the boot floor, and that then carries it into the boot. The runners around the top and sides of the glass were dry as snuff, perfect. No water ingress there . But puddle along the threshold, and rubbing hand across bottom of door, it was dripping of the inside of the plastic door liner.
So going to try putting a plastic sheet between door liner and door, and a good sealant around this. Probably had one originally but nothing there now. If that don't work, Ill work some sort of plastic gutter idea to direct water of back of liner into door itself.
2004, FL1, TD4 , 3 door, Manual, 2.0 Ltd Diesel.
