Wet Headlining

My Disco 2 was always prone to let in a bit of water if left parked tilted to one side i.e half on kerb, if raining heavily the water used to come through a small hole in the headline, right beside the screen in the middle by the rear view mirror. Now when level I'm getting damp head lining both sides, particularly at the top of the pillars and making it's way back to the top of the doors. Dries out fairly quickly and does not appear to be making its way down to the footwells as they are both dry.Pain in the butt though and doing a bit of forum searching (and picking the brain of my very helpful local Autoglass man) it would appear there are faulty welds where the roof is attached to the pillars, LR Main Dealers were aware of this and removed the screens and sealed all welds before re-fitting the screen, only for those good owners that brought their cars in under warranty I would imagine, I doubt they would do it now on a 2002 model !. Anyone got any tips on how to cure this problem ? have found one reference to removing the windscreen side trims to gain access to seal. In anticipation - Cheers

Check this out m8 http://www.landroverclubvi.com/uploads/2/3/9/8/2398536/water_ingress_to_headliner.pdf

Nice one,I'll get right into that (once the bl**dy rain stops !),thanks

Took a bit of time to get around to it but have sorted it by scraping out the old sealant at the top of the A pillars (at the front end of the side guttering), cleaned up the channel and banged in some black silicone. Seems to be sorted without having to remove anything.

Hope your lucky..However,, Your problem may be coming from the sunroof itself. I have just done a Disco 2 with exactly the same problem and ingress points that you have. To see the problem you have to first understand the make up off the roof. The headliner fabric is attached to a semi rigid plastic shell, which in turn is attached to the metal inner skin of the roof. Water enters the vehicle via the leaking sunroof seal, it can not penarate the plastic shell so makes its way to the interior of the vehicle following the shortest route. It will appear as a drip behind the rear view mirror and even through the center roof console. ( Can affect the ACE sensor located inside) The headling at the top of the front doors can also show water ingress. The fix is to take out the headlining, remove the sunroof and reseal it with the correct mastic.

It's been fine, fortunately the problem could not have originated from my sunroof/s as I don't have any !! It's a Serengeti model