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Door inner trim is saturated at bottom

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Old Oct 6th, 2019, 22:00   #1
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Default Door inner trim is saturated at bottom

I noticed the driver foot well carpet was wet. I could see that the water had come from the bottom of the door and seeped across the plastic threshold trim onto the carpet.
The bottom inch of the door card (trim) is soaking wet so my immediate thought was that the rain had run down the glass past the rubber trim which is at the point where the glass goes into the door and into the door cavity but could not get out of the bottom. It was getting dark but I had a quick look at the underside edge of the door to see if there is a drain hole and if it was blocked. All I could see on the bottom edge of the door was a blanking rubber grommet, I removed it but nothing came out.

I have not started investigating yet but thought I would ask here in case someone has already had a similar problem and can point me in the right direction.
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Old Oct 8th, 2019, 15:26   #2
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Hi,
This year I was suffering the dreaded soggy carpet on both wells with first line of thought bing the sunroof seal.
I then looked at the seals on the doors thinking it maybe those left rain in when heavy.
What it turned out to be is the scuttle pipes in engine bay on both sides as the pipes were blocked and the fixing not on correctly.
Also due to not draining the fuse box area a build up of muck the water washing coming into the cabin through the gap.
Hope that may help.
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Thanks for your reply Mark.

I always keep the scuttle drains clear so I knew it was not them, also the carpets in the drivers foot well were not wet at the front beneath the pedals, nor to the right of the pedals. The only place that was wet was the right side beneath the small bin built into the door trim.

As I mentioned it appeared that the water was dripping off the door carpet onto the plastic threshold trim and running off that into the foot well.
I removed the door inner trim panel and confirmed that the door drains were perfectly clear front and back. The only place I could see a trace of wetness was on the door metalwork beneath the white plastic 'box' style insert which protects the back side of the door bin from water that drips down inside the door cavity.

I think water had dripped onto the white box and ended up on a small horizontal half inch wide shelf at the bottom inside edge which is all part of the box. It looks like the shelf, when in situ, has a slight incline which would make any water that collected on it to drip into the door cavity but if the car was parked on slightly uneven ground so the drivers side is slightly higher than the passengers any water running of the shelf may run back along the underside of the shelf and capillary between the bottom edge of the plastic box and the door frame it is clipped into. Once there it would soak into the carpet and then proceed into the foot well as previously explained.

At this point I am only surmising but decided to carry out a mod as though my conclusions were correct as I had nothing else to go on.
I put a small bead of silicone on the underside of the shelf about 2mm back from the edge, this should act in a similar way to a drip groove on the underside of an external window ledge and not let any water past it.
I also tried to reduce the amount of water falling directly onto the top of the box but fixing a 2" flap on the top edge of the aperture before I reinserted the white box. As the box was pushed into the door cavity the flap produced a sort of canopy over the top of the white box.

Everything was dried and put back. I am now holding my breath in anticipation for the next lot of rain to see if I'm barking up the right tree.

If anyone is interested but cannot quite understand what parts I am referring to or the mod i did, let me know and I will post some pictures.
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