Help - I'm getting soaked!!

[mjc]

I've only had the car two weeks, but as I've mentioned before, when it rains I keep getting a LOT of water coming in around the windscreen. It collects between the dash and the windscreen glass and then when I go around corners it gushes over the top and drenches my leg. Yesterday when I drove home, so much water came in that I had to wring my right sock out from all the water that had saturated my trouser leg and then dripped into my shoe! I know this sounds funny, but I'm really not impressed. at first I thought it was the bottom seal around the windscreen so I squirted some getter sealant behind it and pushed it back in, but this had absolutely no effect. It also doesnt seem to be coming in through capillary action either as when I got into the car yesterday after it had been sitting in the carpark all day, there was already a lot of water that had collected on the dash from the rain in the afternoon.... It was very embarrasing when I was giving a work collegue a lift home and water flowed over the dash like a waterfall in several places as I pulled away...

Has anyone got any ideas.... please.?!?!?!


>>> Edited by mjc on Saturday 10th July 08:36

[Trefor]

Sounds like a rather large leak. I would suggest getting the windscreen refitted if possible since the leak seems to be coming from 'high up', thus meaning it's probably not a leak in the bulkhead/door areas.

[999]

Have they actually fitted a windscreen....?

Take it straight back to the dealer - you should have done this the moment the leak appeared.

[mjc]

I did, and they adjusted the door seals on the 1000 mile service as thats where they thought it was leaking from at the time... Trouble is now that I'm in Norway (cought the ferry across last weekend), and dont plan to bring the car back until about November.. Obviously the car is going back to the dealer then, but I could really do with an interim fix now if possible..?!

[trefor]

Since you're so far away can you maybe get the dealer to send you another windscreen? Or visit a really good specialist and get your existing screen resealed? From what you have described I don't see what else can be done other than reseal the screen.

[mjc]

Just as an update, managed to fix the leak in the end(albeit temporarily...)

The windscreen has been badly fitted, with a 2mm gap on one side and a 12+mm gap on the other - especially bad at the bottom on the drivers side...

Anyway, I peeled the seal off from around (which by the way had been badly butchered to fit the miss-aligned screen..) and filled as many of the gaps as I could with gutter sealant...

I wont go into details now, but although it sounds like an easy job, I wouldnt recomend anybody tries it... It took many hours of frustration and anguish to get it back in and fitting correctly, cleaning off the excess sealant etc...

Anyway, in summary - thats the likely source of the problem if anyone else has similar symptoms, and my reccomendation would be get it back to the dealer!!

[jon12w]

I had this too... when the dealer refitted the screen they told me hardly any sealant was on the joint at all... if youve condensation on occasion above the instruments right down by the screen it means the leather is getting wet and youve a leak... get it fixed before the car rots and the dash electrics get wet....