Freelander 2 (LR2) Water collecting in boot

Has anyone noticed water collecting in the boot well ? I was having a rare clean up of the boot and when I got everything out there was a fair amount of water there. Its not obvious how it is getting in.

never noticed it on the FL 2 but will be taking a look now

Under the spare wheel?

It's nice to know the FL2 has one or two things in common with our more agricultural FL1s

If I ever upgrade to one I shall look forward to this kind of thing making me reminisce

Check the seal around the top brake light
Also make sure the rear screen washer is working properly

It might be unrelated but I had this last winter and it took me months to solve, I had a double issue, the neoprene seal around the rear high level brake light had gone, I had fitted the clear lens version from a later model and for some reason it never really sealed properly so I went back to my original red lens version with an aftermarket neoprene seal but it still didn’t seal, I managed to source a genuine LR seal and it’s important you get absolutely every last morsel of the previous seal off before applying the new one, but this only halved the amount of water I had coming in so I still had an issue, if you remove the plastic fascia that covers the top of the tailgate on the inside it exposes the back of the brake light, I could see beads of water forming along the window line and workshop blue roll confirmed water was getting in through the window seal, I got hold of some window fitters sealant which goes in a simple caulk gun and put a generous bead along the window line from the inside, it doesn’t matter how messy you are really because the plastic fascia covers it, the problem stopped over night and touch wood a year later it’s still dry, this might not be the same problem you’re having but it’s worth taking off that top fascia on the inside and checking, I remember at the time I posted this problem and lots of people said there’s a rubber grommet in the boot well that sometimes comes displaced letting in water so that might be another avenue that wasn’t the problem in my case though

Thanks all. It only seems to be a problem when the rear of the car is lower than the front ie. parked on a slope. Normally any water getting at the top of the tailgate is channelled down the sides of the door opening and out over the top of the rear bumper. What i think is happening that the water getting in is dropping onto the 2 rubber cable covers at the top of the opening and dripping down. not much I can do about that except not to park on a slope.........poor design LR.

@sharmanator43 sealed from the inside!! that means the water is either sitting on a join for the bodywork and will rust through at some point - or is sitting on the edge of the window which will go cloudy at some point.

SWalker said:

@sharmanator43 sealed from the inside!! that means the water is either sitting on a join for the bodywork and will rust through at some point - or is sitting on the edge of the window which will go cloudy at some point.

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To be honest at that point I just didn’t care, it was over a year ago and the boot is bone dry, my heart used to sink every time it rained heavy because I knew I’d have to go and bail the boot out, I’ve got no cloudiness or rust yet and although I sealed the whole top it was just a tiny seam that was weeping but enough to cause a constant drip in heavy rain, I’m sure there’s lots of places that’ll rust on the FL2 before that does, I did enquire locally about having the rear screen removed and refitted but nobody wanted to do it...

UPDATE : thanks for all the feedback, it turns out the seal around the rear high level brake light had gone flat a little hard. I got a slightly thicker one from eBay, fitted it and now all fixed.

Thank you for reporting the solution, as some never bother