The time around, i went in from the top and while i was trying to clean out the drain, the drain in the plastic from the wheel arch around it came out. I can't put the drain back in as you can see in my pictures the plastic around it is broken from the wheel arch plastic.

Since the drain fell, i had to remove a few fasteners on the bottom trim pieces to reach up from the bottom and get it. I tried reaching all the way up to the top of the wheel arch and i didn't quite make it, was about 6 inches awy from where the drain would be.

If i had actually removed the bottom trim instead of just removing the fasteners and bending it away to get my arm up in there i could have gotten up in there.

This time, only the drivers side was plugged, so i had top access. Haven't touched the drives side with the ebox again as it's not plugged right now.

As part of this process i looked at a new wheel arch and i see they introduced a new part number with a new drain in it. I've got a 2007 which had the old drain. Someone must have spotted this problem along the way and made an ECO to improve it.