Door water leak

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This page is for an older problem I had in the first year I had my car. Water was coming through the doors. I went to two dealers (more than once each) and the problem was found when I removed the door panels, closed the doors and my wife watered the car. I could see water coming in from everywhere in the door.

Water was coming through the door speaker hole and from the plastic sheet covering the door itself. This last item needed more "putty" used to glue the sheet to the door. With time, the plastic sheet gets separated from the door and then the water enters the car.

The door speaker was a more serious problem. It was corrected by gluing a margarine container to the door's speaker hole. The dealer s first tried with plastic bags over the panel's speaker hole but that made rattles and made the speaker useless. Here are the pictures:

	The door
	The grill
	The panel
	The panel closer view
	The upper door
	The plastic sheet
	The upper left door correction
	The lower speaker hole
	The speaker hole container
	The upper right
	The panel reinstalled
	The speaker

	Door and speaker grill view

	There where signs of water infiltration after some good rain

	Removing the panel showed water marks and dirt where the water was getting in

The panel closer view

	You can see the dirt in the lower seal section. Water did go through for some time
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The upper door view

	Water is passing through the hole and goes between the plastic sheet and the door
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The plastic sheet view

	The lower plastic sheet is slowly separating from the door. The sticky putty used does not hold with the time. More where added by a dealer technician but the door was still leaking

	The black putty was put by the dealer's technician. The beige is the OEM putty. Back to Top

The upper left door correction view

	I installed a plastic sheet, glue above on the outside and the lower side is within the door. To get water back into the door.
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The lower speaker hole

	A margarine container was glued into the door

	By leaving the container over a flame the plastic drips. Perfect for the water exit Back to Top

The speaker hole container

	The hole above the speaker hole was also blocked with the Hot Glue gun. The plastic stick that is on the panel was broken not to interfere with the glue.
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The upper right view

	Here a piece of plastic was also used. Glued outside and the lower section is within the door

	The holes for the electric window control motor where also blocked with a plastic sheet Back to Top

The panel reinstalled view

	Almost ready to install the speaker
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The speaker view

	There is just enough speaker wire to plug it into the speaker and reinstall the grill
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Last modified: 09/08/04.