Water Ingress

Post by **Jefftav** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:46 am

Hi Guys, I am getting a small amount of water (after rain) on the the cill step under the drivers door i.e. I only notice it when the I open the drivers door and there is a slight puddle there. I don't know if rain is somehow getting down on the front edge of the door or could it be the window seals in the door are shot?

I have replaced the windscreen rubber when the new screen was fitted and a new 1/4 light rubber and these seems to be bone dry.

Has anyone else had any experience of this and what did you do to solve it?

Thanks Jeff

Post by **bmcecosse** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:18 am

The door window seals are not watertight, only there to stop the glass clattering about too much - so rain will run down inside and then out through the drain holes in the door bottoms. There are replacement 'touch glass' seals available (like modern cars) but I don't know how successful thes are.

Post by **MarkyB** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 6:14 pm

I'm a convert to the touch glass type seals.
They stop the windows rattling and keep the water out.
Don't do what I did (which seemed like a great idea at the time).
This was to use the old seal as a pattern to cut the new one and make the holes for the clips.
It worked after a fashion but left a gap of several mill at one end.
If I'd taken a little longer and not assumed nothing could go wrong then I could have got e really nice fit both ends