It's raining. In the car.

[Captain Bavaria]

Two questions:

First: So, I took my rear seats out the other day and found water pooled up in the bottom of the passenger side rear seat. Today, (in the rain) I noticed water streaking down from the upper left (if your looking at the rear seats)- right below the far corner of the speaker pod. What is this from?

Second: My rear window molding is crapped and I already know that water leaks past them and drips by the window regulators. Can I use the perfectly good molding from my parts car? If I can- how can I remove it and then reapply it without ruining it?
Thanks!

[86GT635]

rear sunroof drains are clogged.

[Captain Bavaria]

Thanks! Found the article on normgrills and I'm about to go at them.

[6erWEBB]

I have a question. Is the process on normgrills the same far e12 based as it is for e28? Im looking at my headliner and I have the type that stuffs into the window channels, Im not seeing any clips to the roof for the headliner. I also dont see the rectangular tabs.

[Tex707]

I had this informative response written earlier in regards to question #2... then I lost it jumping tabs & closing tabs, so I will give you the cliff-notes.

It seems like a good idea but it's not.

You will inevitably screw something up and the best part is you may not notice it until the morning after a downpour.

If it the process goes surprisingly smoothly...you've definitely done something irreversibly wrong.

Of course these may just be limited to my experiences with a '51 Fleetline & 65 Corvair...but hey...forewarned is forearmed.

[Bert Poliakoff]

There is a fabric channel that goes across the top of the rear window opening and continues across the top of the door opening that conceals the clips. But, on the e12 cars, to pull the headliner all of the interior window trim has to come out. It is a total nightmare. if your rear sunroof drains are plugged, you may be able to put the sunroof in tilt, and using come coax cable etc to snake into the rear drain openings which drain out in the rear sail panel behind the exterior of the rear windows where the large rain
molding is.

[Taylor Marshall]

Twirl the TV cable type coaxial cable up from the bottom end exit point behind the rear windows to clean them out . Worked for me.

[Captain Bavaria]

Twirl the TV cable type coaxial cable up from the bottom end exit point behind the rear windows to clean them out . Worked for me.

I tried that yesterday and the cable just stops like its hitting a metal wall. I felt it with a clotheshanger and its seriously feels like there is a metal barrier there- I'm going to go at it from the front (the sunroof) hopefully tomorrow.