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Trunk flooded - design fault (archive)
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Posted by Jim Butterworth on November 04, 2001 at 06:12:17:

The 5-series wrere designed as expensive, plush, up-market cars - yes ?

Can anyone tell me why the car is designed so that, if it rains, all the water on top of the trunk (when polished of course) deposits itself in two rivulets on top of, and ruining, all the papers in my trunk ? The seals are OK, but the drain channels are very poorly designed and not nearly deep enough.

My fault, I suppose - I should never have parked it facing down my slightly sloping drive !

In all my years of motoring (40) I have never come across ANY vehicle that does this (except for my 318i) and am surprised no-one at BMW has bothered to design-out this shortfall (or is it waterfall ?) - presumably it never rains in Germany ?

If my Rover 90 could get it right in 1955 then why could not BMW in 1985 ?

Sodden and unhappy - Jim B (Somerset, UK)
1985 528i SE

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