Window seals

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My passenger door is filling with water, looks like it is getting in around the door ceils, any advice on preventing further ingress while I can look for someone to fix it?

Is there anywhere you can recommend that would repair this on a Sunday?

Thanks in advance.

Rich

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It's my understanding that the window seals aren't meant to prevent water getting inside the door. The water is meant to flow through the door and out the bottom through some drain holes (check these aren't blocked BTW). When water starts to get into the cabin along the doors, usually it's the inner membrane sealant that has deteriorated;



I had this problem and fixed it by pulling back the clear plastic membrane, scrapping away the old seal and applying a layer of butyl strip. Haven't had any further leaks into the cabin since. Took about 1.5 hours per door (tops), and most of the time was spent trying to clean the old gunk off. If you haven't got or can't wait to get some butyl strip, bathroom silicone sealant should do the job too.

Door panel removal guide here:

http://www.redgto.com/KB/article.aspx?id=10040

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Thanks for that response, I just poured a bucket of water over the doors and compared both sides, like you say it diverts to ground, saw no ingress.

What I did notice is that the rubber on a replacement windscreen that I had fitted 12 months ago is no longer glued at the bottom edges, there is a 3 inch gap at each either corner. Poured water into both ends of that gap, could not tell if the water entered on the passenger side and on the drivers side it was dry, could it be this?

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Just a word of advice.

Don't use any bathroom/household type sealants as they won't work. The plastic membrane will just peel away from the sealant after a short while. You will then have the pleasure of trying to remove all the sealant, which will have stuck like sh.. (very well) to the bodywork. Also I have read somewhere that these sealants contain acetic acid (I think that was right) which apparently is not the best thing for paintwork.

Butyl tape is the thing to go for or re-use the existing sticky black stuff. I found that cleaning the membrane & bodywork with alcohol or Autoglym tar remover makes for far better "stick" when re-attaching. Also heating the butyl tape or black stuff up with a hairdryer whilst attaching the membrane aids as well.