Curse of the drain

Part 2 of Wet Knee Syndrome. I wish Land Rover designing team would address this problem or pain for draining rainwater. My experiment from the picture shown here bad as the solution maybe. But the point of it is to show a possible solution, gravity fed water leaking down through door seal or leaking on your foot, when opening and closing the door. The yellow arrows indicate the points well.
1. Without experiment Wet foot and floor occurs
2. With an adapted corner section off a cable tidier, the water drains away from over the door, but leaked gravity fed back towards the door seal, foot and floor:doh:.
3. Extend the adapter by two inches over the window seal. Forces the water to leak downwards over the window to the rain gully bellow and out. Hooray. Now I accept my design is odd and maybe vomit inducing or fainting fits may incur. But it seems to work for. Have anybody improved on this yet or open a patent So come on Land Rover please put out of our misery when designing.

Why not block up the front and then all the water will go to the back?

I have the same problem.

Simple reason was because my wagon is parked on small slope. Also when on the stopped road or parked, it still finds it way out over the front, because the vehicle sits high in the back.

You'll find that it comes from the inside of your roof channels , They well up when it rains and as soon as you move it rushes to the front an out over your leg .
Either study this http://www.landroverweb.com/Pdf-files/Manuals/Land_Rover_Defender_Water_Ingress_Manual.pdf

Seal up your roof , if it still comes in remove your roof lining and seal the top corner where the gap is by your screen/roof joint - did this on mine as water was still coming in ( but less after sealing the roof ) but sealing that corner stopped it all .

wot the ****'s wrong with this one? - http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f38/defender-water-ingress-manual-82256.html

Had a look at the manual. Seems I should rename the vehicle the Sieve by the amount of sealant needed.

I cleaned out the tiny gap under the windscreen hinges and nearly all my leaks disappeared as water was laying in the channel just deep enough to seep into windscreen seal and creep over the air vent seals ,replaced the vent seals with the later type that stick onto the flap itself and hardly leaks at all now but damage has already been done to the bulkhead where the black plastic trim sits on the edge just below the knee guard that covers the heater box on drivers side,may have caught it in time.

JNOAKES said:

Had a look at the manual. Seems I should rename the vehicle the Sieve by the amount of sealant needed.

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could be 1 little poxy hole but if you want to do it 1" at a time you'll have a satisfaction of finding the bugger
better to just blitz the bastid or you could ware rubber trousers when it rains (or get a dirt bike )

evenin' buckshot,bit off topic but did yer mate get a roof in the end?

bigsi13 said:

evenin' buckshot,bit off topic but did yer mate get a roof in the end?

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has he not got back to you?
spoke to him weds last week at the sash meeting and he said he had left a message on yer phone and had'nt checked his voice mail for a couple of days hope he aint fookin you about
the day i posted the fred he rang me and was desparate for 1 9what did he want me to pick him 1 up? :doh:

not ****ed about at all mate just not heard anything and dont have voicemail as far as i know but then i aint got to grips wiv my new phone yet,it aint going anywhere as i'm in no hurry to get rid of it .

funny enough he phoned me earlier today asking for my youtube account name to view the video's of us sash guys trips.
meant to ask him but was in the middle of stuffing me face

no worries ,i have just this moment set up the voice mail on me phone,the only thing i have to do now is decide wether to have shepherds pie or cottage pie for my dinner as i'm stuck at work till 6am.

i'll chase him up tomorrow (he is a stone mason and very busy most of the time ) we did set him up a lz account at the meeting but he is a bit of a technophobe apparantly
i'm only still up cuz i nodded off earlier on the couch so not tired now going to feel it come late afternoon :doh:

whiskey helps

till i wake up

get some kip mate ,i'm going to now the boss has ****ed off for the night.Apologies to the O/P for the slight highjacking.cheers