Ever been so annoyed at something, that you want to burn it?

Well in my case the P38 has been pissing water in for a while, i'd sealed the filters up, and like a fool believed that it couldn't be leaking from there again!!

The easiest person to fool is yourself etc etc..

Anyway..

In an effort to find out the specific area as to where the water was getting in, i got various jugs filled with water and a colourant!!

The colour is key, working from the bottom up "for obvious reasons" you use a different colour for each section, if the water that leaks into the footwell is a specific colour you know "roughly" which area is leaking..

The problem with drenching the car with a hose is it soaks all areas in water and it is hard to pinpoint which area is leaking, using the hose method we narrowed it down betweem the sunroof and scuttle, not very accurate!!

This is the state of the inside after drenching it with a hose..

Not great as you can see, this is after drenching the whole car, at this point water could be getting in anywhere!!

To narrow down the leak i mixed water with MER car polish which is a horrible cloudy stuff, and it worked well, i drenched the pollen filter covers first..

After taking a seconds i opened the door to be greeted with this!!

clearly the MER is eeking its way past somewhere..

It is also worth noting i put the hose inside the scuttle and nothing leaked..

Upon opening the "sealed" pollen filter covers i was greeted with this...

A lesson to be learnt from this is..

clean the covers off before resealing!!

Now i appreciate some old hands will laugh and tell me to fook 'orf..

but i thought i'd share!!

cheers,

I can see why they leaked, where's the seal that should run round under the cover? Part number is BTR8297.

You mean that useless foam? Better to use window/glass silicon - the one they use in the shops where they change windshields. Flexible and seals 200%, albeit a pain to remove as it sticks very well.
This reminds me I made this work more than two winters ago and I should follow up on that - have not had any leaking so far, but it never pays to re-check.

I am always amazed at the water ingress capabilities of British-built Land Rover vehicles. Considering the weather you guys get there, one would assume there at Solihull them boys would pay a little more attention to the topic ...

leolito wrote:

You mean that useless foam? Better to use window/glass silicon - the one they use in the shops where they change windshields. Flexible and seals 200%, albeit a pain to remove as it sticks very well.
This reminds me I made this work more than two winters ago and I should follow up on that - have not had any leaking so far, but it never pays to re-check.

I am always amazed at the water ingress capabilities of British-built Land Rover vehicles. Considering the weather you guys get there, one would assume there at Solihull them boys would pay a little more attention to the topic ...

I used to work at the factory in Solihull around the time the L402 was new.

At one point our office overlooked a testing bay. It was like a super high powered car wash that fired water at the cars.

There were a lot of L402's going through that bay with lots of people with puzzled faces pulling off bits of bodywork and interior trim.

One the one hand, the guys at the factory know they're supposed to be making watertight vehicles. On the other hand, they're no good at it!

I used silicone on this occasion..

Time will tell how it lasts.

More than likely the actual box that's leaking.
Needs dismantling and revealing with mastic

Ordinarily i'd agree but the filters were sodden, and we were watching the water disappear under the covers ;)

Mine gets sodden. New covers. There are 3 areas. The little widget that the screws go into above pollen filter,, the covers and the boxes.

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/air-intake-pollen-filter-water-leak-fix.168313/

Glad it got fixed. I sealed mine up last time I was closing it - pretty sure I used RTV. In case it's of use, while investigating the 16 way connector in the LH panel that insists on going green, i traced a weep of water to an internal seam that is 8-12 inches above it - you need to be on your back looking up. I just about manged to get some RTV on it. I couldn't for the life of me find the outside of that seam, it's either stuck behind the wing panel, or just possibly it's accessible if the pollen filters and their housings are stripped out. I'll look next time I'm in there (may it be many years hence)

Cheers RomanRob i'll be sure to check..

I've cut the foam out, and sandwiched it between 2 boards and run over it with a 2 ton jag...

Got alot of the water out, but are their any other ways?

30ton road roller at work would do the trick lol

between the boards I would also add something dry to wick the moisture out - the wife's best fluffy towels should do the trick. Since you've brutalised the foam already, maybe it can go into a clothes drier in sections?

I've always hung them up over a bath/shower after rinsing them through - couple of days to a week later they're usually dry and a hell of a lot lighter.

Cheers all..

I've hung them out to dry..