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- Wolfpack
- Member Since: 25 May 2019
- Location: Norfolk, UK
- Posts: 454
Wet carpets
I’ve just discovered (appropriate they call these Discovery’s as they keep on giving!!) that the carpet in the second row seat (behind drivers seat) is wet. No sign of any ingress but it did rain heavily overnight.
I know this has been mentioned in the front footwells and sometime attributed to windscreen leaks but what knowledge is there for wet carpets in the second row?
I did have the window mechanism on that rear offside door replaced some months ago …could that work have compromised anything to allow seepage into the car….that I hadn’t noticed till now?
I cannot see anything remiss ….but any other things I should be checking?
I should add that there is no sign of water from above… floor mats are dry.
It’s crazy. Having been working to seal the windscreen leak and holding my breath as THAT was ok this morning it seems like water is determined to get in one way or another on this
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 535
Unless the glass hasn't been fitted into the regulator properly and the water is leaking from a badly sealed window...although having replaced 2 of mine myself I struggle to see how it could be the case...I think you can rule out the window regulator work as a source.
My guess would still be the panoramic roof/sunroof for anywhere around the 2nd row seats with the water seeping down behind the lining/pillar trim and down the B pillar. There's nothing else near there that could be the source of a leak... barring a failure of the front or rear door top seals or lower window seals on that side.
...or a hole in the floor
I know I tend to make fun of dealership fitters...sorry... vehicle technicians... with their clean, ironed overalls and strange work practises...but it would require some seriously challenged technical muppetery to remove the window glass (or door) to replace a window regulator or muck the job up so badly that the window or door seals leak...
Replacing a regulator is a 20 minute job that only requires 2 torx screwdrivers (T20/T30) and a bit of gaffer tape (or special window locking pins) to hold the window glass up as you're removing/fitting the regulator...there's absolutely no need to be touching the window seals, far less removing them...unless you're replacing the window glass itself.
...but check for your own peace of mind that the outer rubber window seal on the door they worked on is actually there and is touching the window glass, not folded over or anything...and see if there's any sloshing sound if you wiggle the door about
Something sticks in my mind from the old Disco 3-4 perennial issue of blocked sunroof drain channels that the water ran down the inside of the A pillar and fed along the wiring channel under the door kick plates to wet the rear carpets...but that surely can't be the case here... your door sills would have to be full of water leaking down from the windscreen and the front carpets would be wet too in that case
Apart from all that. I'm clutching at straws here...
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- Wolfpack
- Member Since: 25 May 2019
- Location: Norfolk, UK
- Posts: 454
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Having dried out the carpets and tucked kitchen towel into every crevice, seam and orifice I could find, then pressure washed the roof glass, windows and door surrounds with the karcher for 20mins…nothing! All dry inside.
Going to leave it sitting for 48hours, as rain expected again …. to see if this is a sloooow leak that needs time to develop into a puddle.
To some extent I can “put up with” mechanical failures that are identifiable and fixable, albeit at a price. But unfathomable noises and mysterious water leaks on a car of this calibre, drive me mad…and cause me to never consider replacing this car with another like it.
I am reminded of my comment back in my younger British Leyland days….
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 535
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I had a lovely British racing green Triumph GT6 in the early 80's that was like that...only car I've ever owned that should've had a set of windscreen wipers on the inside as well as the outside
The only thing I've ever driven that had a British Leyland engine in it... a Chieftain Mk3 dozer tank which had the underpowered and randomly exploding 750bhp Leyland L60 engine. This particular tank in the photo was the bane of my life for the year I drove it...and the reason I got very familiar with a set of spanners.
I took the pic so I'm not in it... 3 of them were my turret crew at the time, the guy 2nd from the right was our QM tech storeman (hence the clean overalls)...probably smelled coffee...or saw the camera and decided to insert himself...
Scrawled on the back of the photo: Winter '76, Soltau, Germany. Bloody freezing
The army eventually bought me a new tank.
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- Wolfpack
- Member Since: 25 May 2019
- Location: Norfolk, UK
- Posts: 454
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Coincidentally I was working in Verden (about 50km west of Soltau) in 1976!
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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My wife was stationed at RAF Celle (Wietzenbruch airfield) in the late '70's, about 75km south east of Verden... long before we ever met... She was just starting her flight crew training with Crab Air. We met purely by chance 15 years or so later in the back of a Hercules (C-130) at Aldergrove airfield in Belfast.
After a bit of a trip to somewhere foreign, she shoved her phone number into my pocket as I was gearing up to jump out at 22,000 feet.
I had to salute her back then (as now) since she was a Flight Lieutenant and I was a peasant army Sergeant. She was forbidden fruit...and the hottest thing I've ever seen wearing a flight suit.
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