I have been having a problem with my 5 recently. When I park the car with the drivers door by the kerb and it rains I get a soggy passenger side carpet. I eventually figured out that water was dripping down from the passenger door doorcard and this was what had been allowing the passenger carpet to get wet. when i took the door card off the door it was obvious that this had been happening as the door card was wet all along the bottom and up the side where the speaker is (front).
The problem is I cant figure out where the water is coming in from. I have checked all the seals but they all look OK.
Any clues that might indicate that the water is coming down the inside of the passenger window?? If so, you have a (very common) leak between the roof seal and the passenger door window. Usually either at the point where the roof folds in the middle, so centre of the window - easily fixed with a bit of silicon, or at the top corner, where the A pillar, roof and window meet - in that case only adjusting the roof seals will cure.
I dont think the water is coming in from there. I have had that problem before (have now fixed it) and it never ran down the window- just dripped down from the rubber door to window seal. There are certainly no signs suggesting that water is coming in from above the windows. good thought though.
Ok, so- thoughts.
Inside the door card should be a plastic film stuck to the door with icky gooey mastic, idea being that protects water from coming down the window and into the car interior - there should be drain holes in the bottom of the door itself to let out any water that gets in that way, out to the outside world - if that is working ok, then how about the bottom door seal? But then if it truly is coming off the door card, then it’s going inbetween the door card and the plastic sheet - hence my earlier thought about coming down the inside of the window.
Only other thought - there is a drain that runs from just outside the roof catches, inside the rubber seal at the front of the door opening, and outside the lower door seal - is that clear?
The plastic sheeting is intact unripped complete with horrible black gunk. Also the front of the door card never gets wet but it definately drips out of the bottom between the door and the door card, so I guess that rules out water from the windows.
The first thing i did was to de silt the rubber drain rails running down the front of the door but it doesnt solve the problem. my thoughts were that it was coming in from this area due to the increased soggyness of the door card around this location but the seals seem fine and are not cracked, hence why i am still baffled. Oh yeah and the drain holes at the bottom of the door are clear.
I think I have the same problem - water appears to be dripping from the bottom of the door card.
It doesn’t look much in the picture but it’s a stready stream of water drops running from the bottom of the card, over the sill and onto the (now quite damp) carpet.
There’s no water anywhere else inside the car (window, upper door card etc.) and you can see it coming out where it is on the picture.
Is it the door seals at the top of the door? If so maybe they need replacing - but that’s not going to happen for days and it’s raining now. Any ideas for quick fixes?
Haven’t had time to pull the door card off yet but it appears the water is dripping down through the outer window seal and somehow making its way to the card. Like mentioned above it doesn’t seem to be running inside the window.
If I get chance next weekend I’ll report back with further findings!
I had both door cards off last week to oil-up the electric window runners and found that the electric window motors had been wrapped in plastic bags, presumably to prevent them getting wet. I removed the bags as they were both full of water and I presumed that it was them that was transfering water from the main body of the door cavity to the door card and then down. Since then there has still occasionally been a small amount of water on the sill where the leak had been but it’s not flowing in as it was before and often there’s none.
So not really solved because it’s still coming in, but at least removing the bags seems to have improved things. Now I just have to hope the electric window motors don’t seize up (but surely they don’t need a plastic bag wrapped around them?!)
After a summer of light rain (allowing me to bury my head in the sand about this issue) winter has brought the kind of precipitation that is pouring down the back of the door card, onto the sill and down to the carpet. I am again managing to control it with the use of a plastic bag masking taped to the door so water is guided out of the car but it’s hardly a long-term solution.
Can anyone shed any light onto why the water might be dripping down the inside of the door card rather than just passing out through the bottom of the door as it should do? The inside of my car got quite damp before I stuck the bag on and I don’t want to spend all winter like this…
I’ve got the same problem, I’ve tried new door seals, problem is still there, I dusted that side of the car in talcum powder to see if I could trace where the water is coming from. Looks like water is dripping from side of dash, there is a bracket that attaches dash to pillar above door hinge, the talc is marked where the braket is and carpet is wet bellow this point. Are there any known areas that leak behind dash, I’m thinking windscreen seal, missing grommet.
I think I could have a similar problem since I can see the door seal at the top of the door (near the lock and at elbow height!!, which ‘‘sqeegies’’ the water as the window is lowered) does not fit tightly and I can see water going into the door frame.
What is this rubber seal called and is there a procedure for removal and refitting
- but that’s not going to happen for days and it’s raining now. Any ideas for quick fixes?