O3' OBW roof leak?

[kootenay]

After heavy rain, water pools in backseat roof seatbelt. We resealed hinges and wiring rubber of back door. Still leaking! Any suggestions... maybe roof rack, it could be the sunroof, although it appears to be dry. Thanks for your time and your stories.

 

We love our Subaru, it's our 1st!

[nipper]

sunroof drains are clogged.

 

 

nipper

[gbhrps]

Nipper is most likely correct, that your sunroof drains are plugged or one has come disconnected from the sunroof drain rail. If your wagon has the dual sunroof it'll have 6 drain tubes. One down each front A Pillar for the front corners of the sunroof. One on each side about midway back along the sunroof, that follow the roof to behind the rear doors and empty behind the rear wheel wells, and one at the very rear of the sunroof rails on either side that empty behind the rear wheel wells between the body and the rear bumper cover. You can try to locate the drain holes with the sunroof open and blow them out with an airgun. I suspect from where your leak is located that your rear drain is the culprit. Its either plugged or has come disconnected . If you find that an airgun won't solve the problem, you'll have to pull down that side of the headliner where the leak is suspected. To do that the inside rear panels around the rear quarter glass will have to come out, as well as the push on moulding that goes up the rear door opening over the headliner edge. You may as well have to pull down the ceiling pins in the rear of the car on that same side, as well as the centre top moulding in the tailgate opening. If you have overhead assist straps on the rear door, pull those as well. Doing just that should give you enough room to pull down just that rear corner of the headliner to access the rear drain tube. Pull the tube off the end of the drain rail, blow through it and the drain tube end and you should be good to go. You can even put the tube back on and put on a small clamp to prevent its coming off in future, just don't overtighten the clamp as the draintube end that the plastic tube pushes on to is plastic (at least it was in my 02). If you need to pull the entire headliner (a 1 and a half hour job and fairly easy) to get at it, get back to this post and I'll give you a search thread that gives all of the directions to a posting here that I wrote up several years ago. Good Luck!