"Backlight" meaning rear window... Do folks have any experience with this? My '97 Civic coupe is pretty cherry; has only about 60,000 miles on it, but of course is now 25 years old. The ravages of time, not mileage...
I have water leak(s) in the trunk.
Honda used comparatively little (and apparently short-lived) brush-on seam sealer on spot welded body lap-seams. Wrapped over edges of the trunk skin have failed seam-sealer, and the trunk would p*ss water out of the cutouts for the rear lamps when opened... Fixed that. Tail lamps had dodgy-looking gaskets. Cut out some closed cell foam material to suit, fixed that. Seam sealer in trunk trough area at top of rear quarters failed... Fixed that...
Prb might be that trough area extends to possibly the rear window flange... and to my way of thinking would need rear window glass removed in order to reapply seam sealer, prime/paint, then have rear window re-set with glass adhesive...
I attach three screenprints (sorry, re the order of same) of a procedure that one fellow followed. Comments?
Has anyone got experience with this issue, or any comments, generally?
If I remove rear glass, I would of course hope to not find Swiss cheese. Expensive- and perhaps uneconomic repair. Mebe NOT go down the rabbit hole of backlight removal????
I have water leak(s) in the trunk.
Honda used comparatively little (and apparently short-lived) brush-on seam sealer on spot welded body lap-seams. Wrapped over edges of the trunk skin have failed seam-sealer, and the trunk would p*ss water out of the cutouts for the rear lamps when opened... Fixed that. Tail lamps had dodgy-looking gaskets. Cut out some closed cell foam material to suit, fixed that. Seam sealer in trunk trough area at top of rear quarters failed... Fixed that...
Prb might be that trough area extends to possibly the rear window flange... and to my way of thinking would need rear window glass removed in order to reapply seam sealer, prime/paint, then have rear window re-set with glass adhesive...
I attach three screenprints (sorry, re the order of same) of a procedure that one fellow followed. Comments?
Has anyone got experience with this issue, or any comments, generally?
If I remove rear glass, I would of course hope to not find Swiss cheese. Expensive- and perhaps uneconomic repair. Mebe NOT go down the rabbit hole of backlight removal????
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