Boot leak, water in battery compartment.

[teslaboy]

Hi all,
Anyone else had an issue with water leaking in to the boot and collecting in the battery well ?

I had to replace a wheel nut cap as one had fallen off, the spares were in the boot with the jack and stuff, I lifted up the boot floor and low and behold i could see water droplets over the battery and amplifer plus the boot floor was damp and worse there was a good inch of water sitting in the battery well.

The last time i had the boot floor up was no more than 2 months ago and i would have noticed water in there albeit it was warmer then so any water may have evaporated, but I'm pretty sure this problem has not been around since new (2yrs). Although this would certainly explain why there appears to have been a lot of condensation in the car i.e widows taking ages to demist.

Checked the seal around the boot and all looks fine. I've heard that water can get in around the light cluster seals.

Anyway its going in to Audi tomorrow minus the boot which is now drying indoors.
Lets see what Audi finds.

 

[sve170]

Hi all,
Anyone else had an issue with water leaking in to the boot and collecting in the battery well ?

I had to replace a wheel nut cap as one had fallen off, the spares were in the boot with the jack and stuff, I lifted up the boot floor and low and behold i could see water droplets over the battery and amplifer plus the boot floor was damp and worse there was a good inch of water sitting in the battery well.

The last time i had the boot floor up was no more than 2 months ago and i would have noticed water in there albeit it was warmer then so any water may have evaporated, but I'm pretty sure this problem has not been around since new (2yrs). Although this would certainly explain why there appears to have been a lot of condensation in the car i.e widows taking ages to demist.

Checked the seal around the boot and all looks fine. I've heard that water can get in around the light cluster seals.

Anyway its going in to Audi tomorrow minus the boot which is now drying indoors.
Lets see what Audi finds.

Which model RS, Pre-Facelift, FL 2018, 2019 ?


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[Marshy]

Yeah taillight seals are a pretty common cause for this.

 

[teslaboy]

Its an FL sportback 67plate.

The garage is saying its the boot lid seal, if its the one i checked i.e tge one around the boot door frame then it looked fine to me.

I'll get back tomorrow hopefully this fixes it.....watch this space.

 

[teslaboy]

All sorted.
The seal area at the boot locking catch had failed.