DIY: How I used a humble Hand Drill to resolve an issue with the brake lights of my Skoda Kushaq

I ain a Skoda Kushaq purchased successful June 2022, which has done astir 17,000 kilo meters.
Within a period of purchasing the car, I had an incidental wherever I deed a histrion subdivision portion reversing. Fortunately, the harm wasn't important and lone caused a fewer cracks connected the rear close brake airy assembly.

The harm to the rear brake airy assembly

I mostly support the assembly covered with transparent sellotape to forestall h2o seepage. However, during the monsoon season, immoderate h2o would seep successful and drain retired erstwhile the footwear doorway was opened and kept successful the topmost position. The rear brake airy assembly successful the Kushaq is divided into 2 parts: 1 portion is mounted connected the footwear door, portion the different portion is mounted connected the body. The harm and cracks were mostly connected the portion of the airy mounted connected the footwear door.
This rainy play (2024), I started getting a ?Check Rear Brake Light? informing denotation connected my MID. Initially, I thought the sellotape had worn out, allowing much h2o to seep wrong during dense rain. A fewer weeks ago, I reapplied caller portion aft removing the aged one, and the informing went distant for immoderate time.
However, a fewer weeks ago, the informing reappeared and persisted. I assumed the brake lights were nary longer functioning decently and needed to beryllium replaced. But arsenic I was washing the car a fewer days ago, I was shocked to announcement that h2o had filled up to the halfway people of the reversing airy assembly and the brake airy assembly. This portion of the assembly was mounted connected the body, which I hadn't been paying attraction to earlier. I fishy that the h2o was shorting retired immoderate contacts and drafting a higher current, triggering the informing indication.

A fewer inches of h2o filled each the mode upto yellowish dotted line!

Warning connected the MID

Initially, I thought I had nary enactment but to regenerate the full rear close brake assembly. However, upon person inspection, it looked similar I could drain the h2o by drilling a fewer tiny holes successful the airy assembly, which I did the adjacent day.

Dismantling the rear brake airy assembly - rather casual to do, each you request to bash is unscrew 2 screws

Tilting the Brake airy assembly to get astir of the h2o out

All the h2o did not drain out

Getting the drill ready

Water draining disconnected the tiny spread I created connected the conception that houses the reversing airy

Water draining disconnected the tiny spread I created connected the conception that houses the brake airy

Using a insubstantial insubstantial to wick disconnected each the remaining h2o with capillary action

Created a tiny spread successful the Brake airy assembly that was attached to the footwear doorway arsenic well

Taping up the holes - I privation to spot however overmuch clip it takes for h2o to capable up ! So that I cognize however chronic the occupation is

Started the car - and Voila the informing awesome was gone !

All successful each a time good spent - and a acquisition learnt, volition support a adjacent oculus connected this benignant of worldly and volition cheque each the peripherals and accessories astatine slightest erstwhile a fewer months.