Door water leak - sorted

[Alan_M]

When I bought the SA it had the typical wet foot wells. Sat in the car with the door card off I could see the water coming in over the seal. Remembering back to when I had a Range Rover with a water leak into the boot and Land Rover’s official cure, I thought I’d try it on the Excel, and it seems to have worked. The car has been outside with no cover for the last couple of weeks and we’ve had a reasonable amount of rain, heavy and light, there are no signs of water in the foot wells. So to what I’ve done, and it’s cheap and simple

I have used a hole punch to add 2 holes through the seal as in the photos. This allows water that runs down in the V between the bulb of the seal and the U sect that fits over the body an escape route rather than spill over into the interior. I have punched one at each end of the sill an inch or so after the corner flattens out.

Used a tool like this on its largest setting - https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-leath ... /p/0343445

The hole punched fully through the seal.




and doing it’s job (ignore the little bit of water on the U section - that was from my finger, not water spilling over into interior)

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Great mod! So simple. Must do that to mine.

Just for ultimate clarity (I don't want to make a mistake), when you have the time, could you post a picture of a wider view of the location with the whole door aperture within shot?

[Alan_M]

Great mod! So simple. Must do that to mine.

Just for ultimate clarity (I don't want to make a mistake), when you have the time, could you post a picture of a wider view of the location with the whole door aperture within shot?

Here you go. Blue tape marks positions of punched holes. I don’t think there would be any harm in adding a couple of extra holes if you wanted, which I might do a little closer to the corners.

[Pete Boole]

I wish you could do the thumbs up/like button like on the other forum

Good one Alan.

Pete

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Brilliant. Thank you Alan!