Question about water in door panel
 

While working on my window regulator issues, I happen to take the car to the car wash while the door panel was still removed. This was mostly a test to see how well the seal formed around the window. Well during this process I noticed lots of water running on the inside of the door panel down from the bottom of the window. My first question is this normal? Since I do not regularly drive with no door panels I dont know the answer to this.

Thanks!

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

I recently drove without the panels a while back while in reasonably hard, not driving, rain. No noticeable water running inside the doors.

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

So with that said it sounds like the window is not sealed properly. Related to the reglulator??

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

Do you get any wind noise from the door or window?

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

I am by no means an expert on this stuff, but intuition tells me that with the volumes of water under pressure at a car wash would have to force water past the hard seal into the door. The plastic liner isn't there for dust. I do know that the rubber/plastic seal should be pushing against the glass and that it moves just slightly over it when the window is down.

Have you compared with the other door?

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

There is some noise from the upper portion of the window but surprisingly the water was not leaking from there.

Good points, I will remove the panel on the other door and give it a try. I think I may do it with a garden hose prior to going through a carwash again.

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

do you have rust holes in your doors and is that side plastic modeling lose where water can get around it?

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

There is thankfully no rust (garage kept its whole life) and the plastic molding is also in good condition.

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

Hi,

please check for the weather strip running along the fixed window, due to aging they become stiff and don´t fit to the window frame. You get a gap between the fixed window and the door. I fixed this by use of silicon, this far no water running through the doors into the floor.

Kind Regards

Marcus

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

Mine look like the ones in the first picture.

I haven't had a chance to dig into the door panel recently :o

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

Bringing back my older thread...

I spent some more time on the window recently and I am still getting the leak. Here is a picture with the driver door panel removed. This is after replacing the regulator with a brand new one. I adjusted the window to the factory specs but its still leaking. The passenger side is fine in comparison.

This picture is while in a car wash.

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/n...psnkp6qytg.jpg

My only guess is that it could be the seal, but I want to be really certain before spending that much on this.

Re: Question about water in door panel
 

or you could just replace the door if worse comes to worse. ;)