Post by veetail on Dec 17, 2015 18:02:02 GMT
Three 205s in my family and they all leak! 
Nasty wet rear seat cushions, and pools of water under the rear seats, seeping through into the rear foot wells. Then there's the cold 'shower' that comes from operating the roof window handle.
But not any more ...
There is a design fault on the 205:-
Water from the roof runs each side of the rear hatchback seal, into side channels that drain it around the rear light units and under the rear bumper. There are 10 cm square holes cut into the body to accommodate the rear light units. These holes if not very well sealed let water into the voids behind the lights, which fill up and discharge water over the boot floor. This water runs forward under the rear seats and pools under the rear seat cushions which become saturated. The fix is to remove both light units, take them apart including the seals, and clean off the gunk. Having spent their life being attacked with rain water from above and mud & dirt from below, our light units were full of dirt. However once cleaned and dried on the Aga they were as good as new. I assembled the insides of the rubber seals to the units with silicon sealant, then sealed the units to the 10 cm holes in the body with more silicon sealant. We have had two days of solid rain and the boot floor has remained dry. A heavy duty de-humidifier is drying out the seat cushions and foot wells, and fingers crossed we may have fixed this particular leak.
The roof window handle was loose and letting in surprising amounts of water. This was fixed by two O rings on the upper securing nuts, and sealant on the mating face of the window handle. Result no more cold showers from the operating handle.
There may be other leaks but we are definitely winning in the aim to waterproof our favourite cars.
Nasty wet rear seat cushions, and pools of water under the rear seats, seeping through into the rear foot wells. Then there's the cold 'shower' that comes from operating the roof window handle.
But not any more ...
There is a design fault on the 205:-
Water from the roof runs each side of the rear hatchback seal, into side channels that drain it around the rear light units and under the rear bumper. There are 10 cm square holes cut into the body to accommodate the rear light units. These holes if not very well sealed let water into the voids behind the lights, which fill up and discharge water over the boot floor. This water runs forward under the rear seats and pools under the rear seat cushions which become saturated. The fix is to remove both light units, take them apart including the seals, and clean off the gunk. Having spent their life being attacked with rain water from above and mud & dirt from below, our light units were full of dirt. However once cleaned and dried on the Aga they were as good as new. I assembled the insides of the rubber seals to the units with silicon sealant, then sealed the units to the 10 cm holes in the body with more silicon sealant. We have had two days of solid rain and the boot floor has remained dry. A heavy duty de-humidifier is drying out the seat cushions and foot wells, and fingers crossed we may have fixed this particular leak.
The roof window handle was loose and letting in surprising amounts of water. This was fixed by two O rings on the upper securing nuts, and sealant on the mating face of the window handle. Result no more cold showers from the operating handle.
There may be other leaks but we are definitely winning in the aim to waterproof our favourite cars.
