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Water leak to interior solved!
Posted by Paul Bob [Email] (more from Paul Bob) on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:33:44
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I've been working diligently lately on my C900s 3 doors to keep floorboard rust away. The heavy rains here in Dallas allowed me to do some more troubleshooting. What I found is that when the car is parked on a slope, a small amount of water comes in through the vapor barrier plastic behind the door cards. These plastic trays are very old and brittle and are stuck to the door using strips of what I think is butyl rubber like the kind used around front windshields.
Ordinarily, when the car is on a level surface, water leaking past these door barriers collects on the rubber seal that goes around the door. There is a hole in the center of the door that this water can run through and out of the door drains, but when the car is on a slope, the water can't run to the center of the door, instead collecting in whatever corner is the lowest. If, for example, the car is nose up, then the water goes over the door threshold and spills onto the floor behind the front seats.
Water behind the front seats can also come from shrunken rear window seals on the flip out rear windows on the 3 door cars, but I'd already replaced those.
Hope this helps someone. I hate chasing down water leaks!
Paul Bob
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