0:00 Good morning from the group at New Again. We have a Focus ST in for our water leak procedure so we're just going to quickly run through and show you what we've found so far. This vehicle doesn't have the carpet in it because the customer actually removed it because it was heavily soaked. So we haven't got any water in the actual car by the looks of it except for in the rear box sections, but I will show you that in a minute.
0:20 And what we're going to focus on first of all is the sunroof. Very common that the sunroofs get blocked due to dirt and debris. And so what we're going to do is we're going to obviously shine the torch, so we're going to put a bit of water in obviously this cassette here, which then should run out through the arch. So I'm just going to quickly get my bottle with my little straw on it. What we're going to do is we're just going to put some water in the cassette. Okay, and as you can see, if I put a light there
0:52 the water is still sitting in the cassette. So if I give the car a bit of a wobble. OK, so we can see down here that it's not exiting out from the bottom of the car. So if I now go and simulate the same on the other side. OK, so we want to fill up this cassette tray.
1:15 So we're just filling up the cassette tray, making sure that none's going inside the car. And then what that then should do is run down the sunroof drain and it should then exit out through the front arch, which this one is doing. So we've got the blocked one on the driver's side. Then coming around to the back of the car, and what we've done is we've gone through this little hole, and because we know they're very common for having blanking tape on the rear and rear air vents, and so I've got my camera in here
1:41 and as we can see here we have our rear air vents. So we've got a rear air vent here, and this is the bit of blanking tape, as well as we've got the bumper support which is just there, which looks like it has been removed in some time. And so we're gonna obviously have to investigate that when we get the bumper off. And we've got a lot of rust down in the box section, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna get our watering can and we're gonna pour it just on the
2:06 back of the bumper, just simulating this out in the rain. And why I'm doing that, if I let you look at the screen, and then what that should do is it should let water in through that tight hole. There we go, so we've got water running in through the tight hole. It does look like it's running in through the air vent as well, and that's doing it on both sides. And so there we go, so in total we've found one blockage and two rear air vents leaking and two blanking tapes
2:34 leaking. And so obviously we're going to get an estimate off, and there we go, all sorted. Okay, quick video on the Focus ST. So we've done some investigation trying work out where this leak's coming from, put the airline up on top of it. It looks like we have found possibly a welded seam that was letting water in.
3:00 So we believe we've found the leaks, we're going to have to clean it up, and we probably will have to check this side as well. But the cleanest one I don't have in there. OK, so it's a quick video from previous. So we have obviously managed to chisel out these welds. We've primed them and put some of our sealant in the top corners to stop it from obviously leaking in. Also, we've re-sealed the rear lights again just for belt and braces. So they've been done, and now we're just building up the back of the car and then we can test it, and fingers crossed
3:40 that should be the leak solved for the boot area. But there we go. Okay, so we've got the end video on the full focus which come in for the water leak. It's obviously all been fixed. It's been tested as well, and it's had a courtesy wash, so there's no water which is inside, which is a good sign, as we know that this one's been driving the customer absolutely potty. But the customer still does have his carpet back at home, so I believe he's going to put that back in
4:05 at a future time. And what I would suggest is obviously just run it for a couple of weeks, and then when it's obviously a hundred percent, because obviously we do guarantee the work, soon as it's fine I would then guarantee to put the carpet back in.
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