I've had this reliable car for 10 years, always good gas mileage and no major repairs needed... but I have to junk it after 123K miles I always noticed that after a rain the rear floor would be wet, especially on the passenger side. There was no water coming in from the roof or door so had no idea how the floor could be soaking wet. Took it for inspection January 2026 and it failed. They put it up on a lift and showed me the floor panel underneath was rotted away straight across from rear door to rear door. They joked it was a Flintstones car now. They said to get it welded. Went to several welders and collision places and no one will touch it. This didn't just all happen in the space of one year -- how did I pass inspection for the past 10 years and no mechanic ever saw the rust to alert me to get it welded before it gets too far gone?! There is a 2 week grace period to get an inspection issue corrected so looks like the best car I've ever owned is going to scrap...

It began leaking and dripping whenever it rains, on the passenger side where the plastic cover between the windshield and the window is, where it meets with the carpeted roof, but under where the roof panel is. I have tried caulking all along the windshield, tried caulking where the windshield meets with the roof channel; I caulked everything imaginable, and it STILL leaks. It's like magic. Later, the driver's side started leaking too; same area. I caulked the same on that side, and the leaking improved, but did not completely stop.

Because of the leaking, water pools on the floor of passenger side and then rusts the floor. We've already had to had someone cut the carpet and weld a new patch on the floor. And because it's always wet inside (we live in rainy Nova Scotia), the windows are always foggy and we have to let it run for a bit to dry things up; when it gets below zero, we have to scrape ice off the inside of the windshield. LOL