My bay would get 2” of water in it after rains, while just parked here by the house. Despite my BCS advisor saying the windshield seal wouldn’t leak, I finally cleaned the seal and brow above the glass, and filled the extensive cracks in the rubber up there and down the streetside edge with Lexel. Many years hence the bay has stayed dry. Water must’ve found it’s way behind the seal and run down the inside of the cap and/or sidewall and to the opening for the wire loom(s) in the bay ceiling. In spite of expanded foam in that hole, there were barely seen water droplets hanging from the loom/hole/foam on occasion, which led my suspicions to the windshield seal, several feet directly above the loom hole. I was going out after every heavy rain and having to sponge out the bay floor. Over an Oregon winter that routine got old.
I also cleaned the pins and tubes inside the big cylindrical connectors where there was a smidge of blue copper corrosion, and used bulb grease on them. I sprayed Corrosion-X on all exposed metal and connections too. The standing water was no friend to the whiteboard backing in there either, which swelled and cracked around screws. But kept dry since, it has been stable. The Smartwheel module is low in the bay and I’m lucky it didn’t quite get dunked, and stayed fine.
Joel
