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Gerd:

With all due respect, without seeing the car and exactly where it's leaking, how in the hell can he definitively say he "knows how to fix it?" Did he know it was leaking before he shipped it and simply said "to hell with it" and shipped it anyway? Maybe, but I doubt it (but that is sort-of implied by his comment to you).

This is a "rework" operation. He would have to do the same as anyone else; splash some water up in there with a hose or (better) a pressure washer and see if it shows up inside or (a little more intelligently) shine a bright light along the outside of the seam(s) and see where it infiltrates the cockpit.

Once you find the source of the leaks (and, for that much water on BOTH sides of the central tunnel, there must be several leaks, not one), and depending on where and how it's leaking, only then can you determine a plan to stop the leaks.

Tom: Asking what you should do on here is like asking what color you should paint your car - EVERYONE has an opinion, but only YOU have to live with the end result.

Steve wrote an insightful post. Listen to him and a number of others of us who are telling you to cut your losses, devote your $800 to necessary parts and let your capable friends make your car right. If John Steele agrees to send you the parts needed at his cost, fine. You'll be supplying the labor to install them, so you're even. Accept them with thanks and install them locally. If he does not, then chalk it up to experience, keep us informed on here of what's happening (I think quite a few would like to know the overall outcome) and move on.

I, for one, am getting tired of reading about this, rather than reading about fixes and positive progress being made. This is NOT a big deal. These are NOT complicated cars. Sure, you may have a number of little things to fix, but none of them are especially hard. If either Alan or I (or several others on here) had that thing for a week or two, everything would have been fixed by now.

Let's get to it....

gn
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