help my D3 is leaking

**Steve223** · 29th January 2013, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by KOOS BEST

You have to decide do you want to take 3 hrs or 5 min to fix this problem.

The 5 min method as follows.

Firstly get yourselves 8 or 10mm plastic irrigation pipe union or something similar.

On your a pillar lift the air bag plastic off and unscrew the torx screw, take off the cover.
Take a stanley knife and cut the rubber pipe anywhere.
Blow up with the sunroof open and you will see plenty dust and leaves fly out.

When you blow down, you'll experience a back pressure because it's blocked and suddenly you'll hear a whooz sound as everything blows out.

Insert the union, and use tie straps to fasten and voila, put the cover back , all this in less then 5 min both sides instead of hours.

Remember there is no pressure, the water runs down on gravity , so once a year , open up and blow clean.

thanks, thats sounds quick will give that a go as soon as bunnings opens

**Steve223** · 29th January 2013, 07:58 AM

any idea how I remove the side panel where the bonnet opener sits in the passenger side? trying to get under carpet to remove the water underneath.

any suggestions to trying the carpet out? i would assume you can't take it easily out for drying?

**Steve223** · 29th January 2013, 08:16 AM

Found this PDF in case someone else is interested, it has all the pipe exit points and LR solution to fix the leak

http://4sdata.net/filechute/Land%20R...s_DQB5RCKX.zip (file will be deleted after 3 month though)

**Steve223** · 29th January 2013, 12:03 PM

Hi,

Just before the next rain comes I just managed to blow trough the hoses with a airbed pump and fix the joiner (they do not have barbed joiners anymore just the hose joiners so hope that holds.

Click image to enlarge

Also removed the air intake and it seems like drain hose is quite long and there is the possibility to go in air intake (would think I want to avoid this?)

Under the passenger floor the carpet and foam is soaking wet just wondering whether someone has removed the carpets and has any how to's?
Do I need to remove the seats?

Cheers

Steve

**TerryO** · 29th January 2013, 03:21 PM

Look on the bright side Steve you found out yours was leaking when you opened the door.

I to had only just bought our D3 secondhand and it rained within days, I needed to drive up to Sydney for a very important business meeting.

So I got all dressed up and then jumped into my new pride and joy and reversed out to turn round when about half a litre of water poured over the top of the closed sunroof straight into my lap. ...

My crutch looked like I needed to wear incontinence pads, luckily my pants had pretty much dried out by the time I got there. ...

Cheers,
Terry

**Steve223** · 29th January 2013, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by TerryO

Look on the bright side Steve you found out yours was leaking when you opened the door.

I to had only just bought our D3 secondhand and it rained within days, I needed to drive up to Sydney for a very important business meeting.

So I got all dressed up and then jumped into my new pride and joy and reversed out to turn round when about half a litre of water poured over the top of the closed sunroof straight into my lap. ...

My crutch looked like I needed to wear incontinence pads, luckily my pants had pretty much dried out by the time I got there. ...

Cheers,
Terry

lol that makes me feel better Terry :-)

just coming home from the Bendethera trip and reversing HSE out of the driveway to make space for S and did not trust my eyes when I saw the little goldfish swimming in the aquarium on the passenger floor....

did you get the smell out of the car again?

**Steve223** · 2nd February 2013, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by KOOS BEST

You have to decide do you want to take 3 hrs or 5 min to fix this problem.

The 5 min method as follows.

Firstly get yourselves 8 or 10mm plastic irrigation pipe union or something similar.

On your a pillar lift the air bag plastic off and unscrew the torx screw, take off the cover.
Take a stanley knife and cut the rubber pipe anywhere.
Blow up with the sunroof open and you will see plenty dust and leaves fly out.

When you blow down, you'll experience a back pressure because it's blocked and suddenly you'll hear a whooz sound as everything blows out.

Insert the union, and use tie straps to fasten and voila, put the cover back , all this in less then 5 min both sides instead of hours.

Remember there is no pressure, the water runs down on gravity , so once a year , open up and blow clean.

Thanks for the tip it really took only 10-15 min for both sides and fixed the leaking as i can attest now after another 12 h of solid rain :-)

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