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In Reply to: Trunk flooded - design fault posted by Jim Butterworth on November 04, 2001 at 06:12:17:
My car parks front-down on a slightly sloping drive. I have just polished the trunk lid so the rainwater sits on it in great globules.
When I open the trunk, all the water in the globules flows into the drain channel. But because the car is facing downhill, all the water collects in the forward end of the trunk drain channel and overflows directly into the trunk.
When I opened the trunk yesterday morning I watched about a pint of water spill into the trunk and onto my papers from the front corners of the drain channel.
The design fault is that - firstly the drain channels are not deep enough to take the flow and secondly - that the drain channels are all but horizontal when the car is on level ground (look at yours and you will see what I mean). When on a slope, front end down, the drain channels also slope and the water runs back down them in the direction of the back window and then overflows into the trunk.
Design ? Awful ! Who ever heard of having to park pointing uphill just in case it rains ?
Regards from Jim B (Somerset, UK)
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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