Thread: Rain water ingress detected at bottom of A pillar

Mine had leaks from there. Only takes a little pin hole for water to stream thru, showed on the roof lining at the A pillar junction as water marks, plus the wet carpet. I'll have to have a look at those bottom drains when it's on the hoist soon to do the gearbox. 16mm so far tonight so will be interesting to see if mines wet in the morning as well!

Originally Posted by knuts2au

Mine had leaks from there. Only takes a little pin hole for water to stream thru, showed on the roof lining at the A pillar junction as water marks, plus the wet carpet. I'll have to have a look at those bottom drains when it's on the hoist soon to do the gearbox. 16mm so far tonight so will be interesting to see if mines wet in the morning as well!

My D2 was exposed to torrential rain over a 24 hour period and there were no puddles in the footwell and no water trails or drips in the areas where they were evident before.

Originally Posted by jwb

There’s a rubber flap where the door check strap connects. I sealed that up on the pax side and eliminated water getting into the A pillar and the footwell

Thanks for that info and I now reckon it was the culprit in my case. I saw exactly how that could happen a couple of days ago when it was raining heavily - there is an opening for water to leak directly into the A pillar through the check strap pivot bracket. Now that my A pillar drain is no longer blocked this leak water can now freely drain away and my problem has not returned.
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