50sfins
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Hi guys.
We recently had a big problem with the car going into limp mode with every light on the dash, suspension wouldn't rise etc. Found that there was a lot of water coming in down the driver side pillar, down to the footwell. Turns out that water ingress over time has caused various electric connections to become corroded. The guy who fixed it cleaned up those he could and replaced a plug and lead that entailed having half of the dash off.
That said we have now set about finding the leak as we don't want a repeat. We have blown out the front drains and they are now running freely, but the seal around the glass on the sunroof is torn and split. Cannot find one online so spoke to the main dealers who advised this seal is not available separately but comes with a new sunroof glass at a price of £659 plus VAT. Does anyone know of a decent alternative? My better half is inclined to seal it with black Sikaflex as we don't generally use the sunroof anyway.
Surely if the drains are running now if a little water gets in the channel around the sunroof it should drain, not come into the car? Is there anywhere else we should be checking?
We recently had a big problem with the car going into limp mode with every light on the dash, suspension wouldn't rise etc. Found that there was a lot of water coming in down the driver side pillar, down to the footwell. Turns out that water ingress over time has caused various electric connections to become corroded. The guy who fixed it cleaned up those he could and replaced a plug and lead that entailed having half of the dash off.
That said we have now set about finding the leak as we don't want a repeat. We have blown out the front drains and they are now running freely, but the seal around the glass on the sunroof is torn and split. Cannot find one online so spoke to the main dealers who advised this seal is not available separately but comes with a new sunroof glass at a price of £659 plus VAT. Does anyone know of a decent alternative? My better half is inclined to seal it with black Sikaflex as we don't generally use the sunroof anyway.
Surely if the drains are running now if a little water gets in the channel around the sunroof it should drain, not come into the car? Is there anywhere else we should be checking?
