mpwnbr
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- Liverpool, UK
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- Mercedes CL600 / 2007 / 5.5 litre
A good source of knowledge and advice, I'm hoping you fellow forum members might be able to help me out again.
When I bought my CL 12 months ago, there was a green mark on the suede roof lining. This is driver side over the right shoulder of the rear passenger seat, where the roof slopes down towards the rear window. Anyway I cleaned it and thought nothing more of it.
Long story short, with the heavy rain we've had of late, when I've got into he car of a morning I've noticed a not too pleasant smell in the car, which I've now traced to be coming from the area mentioned above, which is soaked with water, clearly coming from a leak either from the roof or the window. Obviously as water can't flow upwards I don't believe the water ingress can come the rear passenger side window, instead is either from a broken seal of gasket at the rear windscreen, or could it be from the sort of groove in the roof that runs along the length of the roof.
Has anyone experienced this before? What was the issue? How was it resolved? Does anyone know if it's easy to take the lining off this part of the car to investigate? I'm concerned if this continues the water could get into electrics causing all manner of problems, and of course be causing rust wherever the water finds itself through gravity.
As ever your help is appreciated.
When I bought my CL 12 months ago, there was a green mark on the suede roof lining. This is driver side over the right shoulder of the rear passenger seat, where the roof slopes down towards the rear window. Anyway I cleaned it and thought nothing more of it.
Long story short, with the heavy rain we've had of late, when I've got into he car of a morning I've noticed a not too pleasant smell in the car, which I've now traced to be coming from the area mentioned above, which is soaked with water, clearly coming from a leak either from the roof or the window. Obviously as water can't flow upwards I don't believe the water ingress can come the rear passenger side window, instead is either from a broken seal of gasket at the rear windscreen, or could it be from the sort of groove in the roof that runs along the length of the roof.
Has anyone experienced this before? What was the issue? How was it resolved? Does anyone know if it's easy to take the lining off this part of the car to investigate? I'm concerned if this continues the water could get into electrics causing all manner of problems, and of course be causing rust wherever the water finds itself through gravity.
As ever your help is appreciated.