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Old 11-27-2012, 11:39 AM
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Old 11-28-2012, 02:40 AM
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Fogging and water

Originally Posted by JamesD31
Fogging or water? What I did to solve my "water" in the taillight issue is take the taillights off yourself, buy some cheep $5 weatherstripping **** (one sided sticky, foam looking stuff) and then just follow the "outline" that will be there to where the gasket touches the frame, it will be like a worn out part of the gasket - no problems since.
The tailight lense readily filled with water if the car went into a car wash. Also fogged in rain / wet conditions.

I tried replacing the original thin gasket with an ebay gasket solution, but this made no difference. I poured water down the boot channel, I could see a quantity of water accumulate in the lense. So I took the lense off, and then discovered the water dripping out of it from the join between the two plastics.

Having sealed that, and still using the thick ebay gasket, as said so far so good.

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Originally Posted by Marcojono
The tailight lense readily filled with water if the car went into a car wash. Also fogged in rain / wet conditions.

I tried replacing the original thin gasket with an ebay gasket solution, but this made no difference. I poured water down the boot channel, I could see a quantity of water accumulate in the lense. So I took the lense off, and then discovered the water dripping out of it from the join between the two plastics.

Having sealed that, and still using the thick ebay gasket, as said so far so good.

Mj
If the gasket is failing, do try my solution of padding OVER the gasket, not just a gasket itself. My guess is you installed the gasket wrong? Maybe you didn't heat it together? If this isn't the case, then you might have a crack somewhere.
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i bought the aftermarket gaskets, they worked great, much thicker. u can see why they work better. re-glued it-good since.
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