Thread: Getting Wet!

It appears that the Disco 1 is a bad one for leaks, too.

I was chasing leaks on ours and found water ran down the outside panels, then it would hit the sealing bungs, seep in past them and into the car. You need to remove the bungs on the LH side behind the kick panel and behind the glovebox and seal them with silicone rubber or sikoflex. Also in the LH panel there is a trip clip retaining plug (white). I found it was split and water ran inside it and down into the car.

The next thing to check is that the windscreen wiper mounting plate is sealed. Ours wasn't and water poured in there. I removed it (at Khunmoo's in Derby!) and we sealed it with silicone. There was sealant already on the rubber but it had hardened and it didn't go all the way around. I hope that fixes that leak.

The next is that water flows in through the air intake in front of the wind screen and drips off the foam filter straight into the cabin air intake on the LHS. You need to check that the modification kit has been fitted to stop this. I've seen a few D1 where it hasn't been fitted. I'd like to see their floors!

Water Ingress into the Passenger Footwell 76/37/94/EN
MODEL Discovery
AFFECTED VEHICLES All Derivatives from LJ 081991
(Left and Right hand drive vehicles)
DETAIL We have received a small number of product reports which indicate water ingress into the vehicle through the plenum/heater intake duct. Water collects in the plenum sponge that is situated above the intake duct and drips into the intake, water is then drawn into the heater assembly, on passing through the heater assembly water leaks into the passenger footwell. The reports also indicate water is taking the same route via the windscreen lower seal, these conditions show in the following ways (wet carpets and water leaking from the heater).
To overcome this condition a deflector strip has been introduced to route water away from the heater air intake duct, this deflector can be retrospectively fitted to vehicles that exhibit this condition.

ACTION REQUIRED
In the event of a customer complaint remove the plenum, and fit deflector to the underside of the plenum. Seal lower windscreen rubber to plenum as described in process below.

Would you believe that LR also published a "Water Ingress Manual, Part Number LRL0173" for the D1. I've not seen it.

Ron

Yep.
Trying to navigate the williams river to get home.
My door seals don't

I've been chasing leaks in my daughter's Disco (yes, the one that went to Derby) over the past few days.

I've got the car for a heater replacement (more on that later ) so whilst I've got it I stripped the carpets out as they were sodden. In addition there was water in the back of the car.

I dried it all out then we had torrential driving rain. Would you believe no water got in. Gaaahh! So I drove it to work after the rain had stopped but the roads were still wet. When I got there, there was water on the floor just near the rear side doors. When I looked closer, I could see the water was running down the wheel arch, just inside the door seal/flange cover strip. I assumed it was coming down from the door seal.

When I got home, I hosed the doors to check for leaks. Nothing. In desperation, I ripped off the flange cover strip/door seal and still couldn't see where the water was coming from. So I whacked the hose up under the wheel arch and lo and behold, got a squirt of water in the face from between the flanges. Hmm. I hosed the other side. Same thing!

I checked under both sides of the car and found a hairline crack in the underbody sealer right along the flange seam. Water was being thrown up from the wheel on a wet road straight through the crack and running down the wheel arch to the floor and, I suspect, to the front of the car.

I've brushed some bituminous paint over the crack and no water has since got into the car via that route.

With water getting into the rear compartment, I found the water was running down the outside of the flange cover strip, wrapping around it to the inside of the car then onto the floor inside. I also found that the strip had been removed at some time and refitted 90 degrees clockwise so that the drain holes were up the side of the door opening. When refitting it, I found it didn't fit properly so I cut the strip at the join (now positioned at the middle bottom of the door opening) and refitted it. Would you believe that the seal was 50 mm too short to fit the opening?

I put a bead of silicone into the strip where it fits the flange to stop water running down and around into the car. After today's downpour, not water was found in the back. Also, an LR TSB tells one to fill a couple of grooves in the panels up at the gutter level. Water runs into the grooves and around into the car.

Next was to clear the air con drains. I dunno if they were blocked but the air con dumps a lot of water. I put cable ties around the drain tubes where they fit over the drains under the evaporator coil. No water leaks on the floor there, now.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Would you believe that LR also published a "Water Ingress Manual, Part Number LRL0173" for the D1. I've not seen it.

Would you believe I now have it - albeit in German. I will upload it into the Files area.

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Now at : http://www.aulro.com/afvb/local_link...catid=7&id=139

Holy Leaking Land Rovers Batman!!

4 years to find a manual and then its in German!

I can only say that after such a long, now "semi" successful hunt, you are obviously a persistant man Ron!!
Bravo!

Originally Posted by digger

Holy Leaking Land Rovers Batman!!

nice

Why does it not suprise me that after such a long hunt for the paperwork, when Ron FINALLY gets a copy, its not in English?

or the last page is missing--