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| huffhuff Member Since: 05 May 2016 Location: Home Counties Posts: 379   
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I've often thought the same. The real problem I have is the water ends of damaging the central locking cabling.
New seals will work for a while. You might get a bit of adjustment from the internals if you strip the door card out (as in, improve the gap between glass and seal). The only other thing I thought was park under cover where possible and maybe fit some wind deflectors in the hope they trickle down than instead?!? You should have drain holes in the bottom sills...although not sure where they're supposed to drain too... TD5 Defender 90 Discovery 3 HSE |
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29th May 2016 7:38am |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
your door are galvanize, the frames and the door skins, all defender door from 2006 onwards are all steel
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29th May 2016 7:48am |
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| nitram17 Member Since: 08 Jun 2014 Location: newcastle Posts: 2261 |
are the doors of pumas galvanised steel ?
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28th Jun 2016 9:29pm |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2645 
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They're not galvanised, but they are treated steel. Probably a Zintec type affair.
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28th Jun 2016 9:49pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769  
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No car door is waterproof, they all have drain holes to let water out that gets in. Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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28th Jun 2016 9:58pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17382 
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It's a shame that the second row door drain holes discharge the water onto the rear floor, though!
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28th Jun 2016 10:16pm |
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| mk1collector Member Since: 17 Sep 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 6769
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 that's because Landrover are such precision engineers Ray
My build thread http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic17615.html |
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29th Jun 2016 8:34am |
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| Wild Card 90 Member Since: 03 Dec 2014 Location: Gerlingen Posts: 1060 
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Thatīs how they work best. Water management on modern vehicles with moonroofs, convertibles, folding hardtops and such, is a technology of itīs own. Even so, it only requires a few rotting leaves and debris to see water draining into places where the engineer never dreamed of, and causing havoc. BMW moonroofs have turned spare wheel wells into septic tanks, and Smart ECU and fuseboxes haved filled mysteriously with rainwater, immobilising the vehicles long after they are out of warrenty. The problem with Defender doors is often caused by , dirt, underseal or soundproofing blocking the (3) drain holes. On the later doors, with an additional lower door seal, the stainless threshhold strips and /or over ambitious door alignment (to try to make it seal better) can squeeze the seal together preventing water from draining out of the door when it is closed. The door then fills up with water until it overflows down the inside of the door trim and into the footwells. 1998 Tdi 90 SW, 2008 Td4 90 SW, 2012 2.2 90 SW, 2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma Heavy Track Raids, 255 MTīs, Recaro CSīs, anorak, wellingtons |
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29th Jun 2016 9:00am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17382
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One the subject of doors and water, I also admire the way that the LR engineers designed the hollow foam seal round my second row doors so that (a) it fills with water, and (b) due to the precision alignment of the holes in the foam, it squirts me in the face when I shut the door!
It would have been very hard to make it do that intentionally! I love my Defender all the same!  |
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29th Jun 2016 9:03am |
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| miket Member Since: 05 Oct 2012 Location: Peak District Posts: 143 |
Always worth checking the water shedders in the doors - they channel any water that gets in past the window seals down and out through the drain holes.
I know how important they are because I had my doors replaced after they were stolen and found that the inside of my 110 was soaking after any rain. Turned out that the water shedders hadn't been replaced in any of the doors and so the water poured in. Took the door cards off myself and put new shedders in myself - all dry inside now. Well, apart from the one leak from the A pillar that I can't track down... Mike |
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29th Jun 2016 11:21am |
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| mick Member Since: 08 Feb 2010 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 2109 
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Just keep spraying a lube in every so often
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29th Jun 2016 5:45pm |
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| agentmulder Member Since: 16 Apr 2016 Location: Outer Space Posts: 1324 
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Word for word, the same here... Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants... |
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29th Jun 2016 8:11pm |
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| nitram17 Member Since: 08 Jun 2014 Location: newcastle Posts: 2261 |
any pics of the water shredders? |
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29th Jun 2016 8:57pm |
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| dorsetsmith Member Since: 30 Oct 2011 Location: South West Posts: 4554 |
LR part number EJD500620 RH / EJD500630 LH front door |
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30th Jun 2016 9:02am |
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