[HeroOfSpielburg]

Hello,



After a couple rains I've noticed water is collecting near the hinge of the door and leaving a faded mark on the leather. It runs down along the inside of frame and gets soaked up in the floor mats (I hope it hasn't gone deeper and if it has it drains out, but it's probably on the road to ruin). On the passenger side the plastic door frame trim is split around here, not sure if the <acronym title='previous owner'>PO</acronym> broke something by accident or did a half-assed job trying to fix something. Leaking on the passenger side is worse than the driver, but it happens on both. Is the weather stripping along the door frame channelling water to the wrong place or is this coming from somewhere else? I can't tell what the correct composition for these drainage routes is.



1) Please help me identify the problem

2) Is there a way to make the damage less until I fix it? Like put the kind of silicates used to absorb moisture in camera bags on the wet interior?



Thanks!



   

   

   

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[Darryl]

Front sunroof drain tubes are probably the culprit. If they are disconnected, water will run down the A-pillars, behind the dash and eventually onto the floor, but since water will take the path of least resistance, it will likely be all over once if has traveled that far from the roof line.

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[HeroOfSpielburg]

Forgive me if this is a silly question, are there drain tubes in the same area even on hardtops? I don't have a sunroof (I should have mentioned that).

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[Darryl]

Ah, no sunroof.....hmmmmm, not sure. The only thing I can offer is that water doesn't run uphill..... By the time you're seeing it in the car, it's probably been leaking for awhile, so check windshield cowl area and door seals. Take the interior apart as much as possible and have a friend spray a hose (slowly and strategically) or pour water from a cup from one area to the next and see what you can see. Water leaks are sometimes very hard to track down.

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[hot968]

I maybe wrong but in the 3rd picture it looks like your seal is depressed near the top of door this flattening could allow water to get in and run down by the door hatch and to the kick plate and trim. You may need a new door seal.

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[Ab54666]

Looks like a new door seal, however sit in the car and get someone to hose it, you"'ll soon work out what's wrong.

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[HeroOfSpielburg]

I know it's been a long time since this thread was active, but I put the car away for winter and didn't have an opportunity to continue investigation.  Now that it's out for spring, I've done some other work and concluded the cause of the problem was trash in the bottom of the battery tray.  Dead leaves, dirt, and other gunk had built up and since I cleaned that out I haven't had water in the footwells again.  I hope this can help someone else perhaps in the future.

 

Thanks for all the help guys diagnosing this!

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[Bill968]

Just now looking through the forum and found this thread.  We, too, have a leak at the bottom of the passenger "A" post on our '93 sunroof coupe.  I'll check the battery tray, as above, but am concerned that it may be the sunroof drain tube.  How does one access this drain tube to fix the problem??  Thanks.

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[Waylander]

have to take the A pillar trims off, a guy over here discovered that a windshield fitter had cut through both drain tubes in the A pillars

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[hot968]

Is the A pillar the piece that runs down the center of the coupe? Is that were I would see the drain tubes? Thanks

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[Bulti]

A picture says more than a thousand words :-)


   

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[JTP]

I've been having this same issue during recent storms. Water dripping by the passenger door hinge and along the bottom of the glove box hinge. Ruled out the battery box area. No rust and the drain is clear. Then I removed the sunroof and tested the drain tube with water. Immediately water was dripping into the car. It appears that the tube wasn't fully seated into the body. After removing the glove box, vent, A pillar trim, and side trim, I saw that access to the area where the tan colored tube meets the metal tube into the battery box area is almost impossible to get to unless the dash is removed. I managed to pull the tube out and did my best to reseat the tube into the channel. For now I plugged the front right sunroof drain hole til I have more time to test it. Below are pics of the tube. You can just get a screwdriver into the area between the body and right side of the dash. There's no slack in the tube as it must have shrunk so option would be to either get a new tube or fill that area with silicone using a long skinny tube to squirt it in there.

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[Waylander]

that looks a very un fun job

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[Bulti]

Was thinking the same thing :-)

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[kwikt]

I fixed mine by cutting the  plastic tubing and installing a plastic ribbed coupler behind the pillar. Then sliding a new slightly smaller rubber hose backwards through the steel drain tube so it attaches to the plastic coupler. Simple easy fix and costs almost nothing. Took me 30 minutes and no leaks........or you can buy a new plastic OE hose and try to reattach it behind the dash...good luck with that!

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[JTP]

kwikt, that's a good idea. It's such a pain getting in there, it's hard to see why the engineers let this design pass.

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[kwikt]

Yep, if you go this route DO NOT pull the oe plastic hose out of the sunroof

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[ds968]

Not 968 related but I'm appealing to the collective knowledge and wisdom of our forum members, and seeking some guidance :

There is a very pronounced water sloshing sound coming from the passenger side of our Jeep Grand Cherokee when taking off from a stop and again when coming to a stop . It sounds like there's a tub filled with water somewhere around in that area which moves forward and backward with the car motion.

Not coming from the back ( gas tank ) nor from the front ( engine bay reservoirs ) , or center ( under dash ) , nor from the driver's side . The spare tire trunk space is also bone dry , as is the sunroof trim and drainage tubes . I unplugged and checked all the drainage stoppers at the bottom of the doors and there was no water stored there ( in the doors ), so I'm completely puzzled where to look next . Anything under the car on that side that can trap water , such as rocker panels or other parts of the chassis ? We've had non stop heavy rains for months now, so it must be something that's collected s a result of that and not draining properly , but where ?! The carpets are completely dry as well , so not sure where to look next .

Any ideas are welcomed ;-)

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[Kim]

look inside the light lenses. And for a jug of washer squirt that might be hiding somewhere.

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[ds968]

Checked, not the lights lenses. Besides, this sounds like there is about half of a bathtub of water sloshing around , not some small amount ..

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