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I would start with the weather stripping around the passenger side doors. Check for cracks, tears and areas where it may have pulled loose from its seating.
Check the seals on your wiper pivots. It is very common for them to leak and let water in. Also check the little rubber duckie antenna on the roof in the front. These also leak.
I'm managing a hole in the firewall! on the Rt Side ..under the battery box....wheel spray up to a AC line into firewall...for too long.
Virtually unseeable......but feeling with my hands....I found what wasn't there.
Eliminate windshield gasket, wiper bracket and sunroof drain tube (leads to rocker panel), too!
Thanks! Interesting the top of her weather tech floor mat was 100% totally dry but about half way up firewall the carpet was soaking wet and u fee that may
Could be a few things. The worst being a sunroof drain hose that broke.
From Easiest to worse case:
1.) Get under your truck and look for the drain plugs pictured below, there is one on each side next to the tranny. Squeeze those plugs (They open like a mouth) and run a water hose on the corners of the sunroof. There may be some in the rear, but I never removed/cleaned those.
Do the top driver's side first. Make sure water is coming out. Do it until the water is clear.
Do the passenger's side next. Make sure water is coming out. Do it until water is clear.
2.) If the water is not coming out of the passenger side, you may have a clogged hose, in that case you will need to snake it out from the top like the video in the previous post.
3.) Worst case, the water is not coming all the way down because the drain hose busted.
3, is what happened to me, but I was lucky to find it when I redid my headliner and living in LA.
I'm up in Seattle now and the first few rains I was checking all of that and I'm as dry as can be.
Try the plugs first hopefully they're just full up.
**Edit** Also seeing you're in SC, so she's probably running the AC a lot still, I think these two drains also drain the water accumulated by the AC... my last two Land Rovers would retain water if the same hose wasn't cleared frequently. So may be a good idea for all us W463 owners to get those drains cleaned out regularly.
Let us know
Good luck!
-Ian
Last edited by almostordinary; Sep 30, 2020 at 03:09 PM.
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