Thread: leak inside the car

Hi Dullbird,
welcome to AULRO! Well, Landrovers tend to leak water to the inside and oil to the outside. If not, assume something is wrong. Whilst this can be annoying it is an usual part of their behaviour.
As I only have owned Disco I models my experience regarding Disco II is not up to the latest standard. To me it seems your problem is related to the aircon. If you can check this and do not find any fault you may find some other sources of the leakage, namely window seals, panel gaps closed with filler (that becomes porous with time), clogged sunroof drains... the list can be extended almost endlessly.

There exists a "Water Ingress Manual" for most LR models, you might want to check out the emporium if there is one for a Disco II as well.

Merry Christmas and a Wetty New Year (pardon the pun) to you!
Cheers

Merry Christmas Dullbird,

I don't think that it has rained much in Sydney during the last two weeks? But I bet you've used the AC. So my guess is it's the condensate (water) generated by the AC . There is a tray to catch this under the fancoil in the dash. There is a tube that drains the tray to the underside of the vehicle. This is probably blocked and this is not a rare occurance. :x

So it's under the car you go and see if you can find the tube either side of the transmission. It would help if you had access to compressed air so that you could blow through the tube to clear it. Then all will be well.

And then take the poor thing off the bitumen :roll: :wink:

My sentiments too,
when I had the pajero, sadly only gone a month but the houseboss enjoys her new car, so I can't complain i got the disco back.( even though after 15 years of drivng it i still enjoyed the roughness.)
Back to the problem, as Mahn said a blcked condensation tube will give the internal water leaks, the paj did it all the time, just a case of poking up something thin into the base of the condensor under the dash.
One other thing a mate of mine just got rid of his disco and bought a D11 because of the same problem. Yours by any chance is not dark green with new alloy wheels and nice new yellow shocks, if it is give me a pm and I'll tell you where the rust holes are.

john

Merry christmas all ,
my disco does this & yes it's the condensate drain , it has a bulb type thingy with little fingers on the end which get a bit sticky & doesn't let the water out get under & twiddle with it & 'bout 2 cup fulls of water & crap come out have to do this every coupla weeks, will get new tubes one day

As said before, its the aircon drain tube caps under the car. Just pull them off the tubes and leave them out. (I have two in my tool box).
It won't cause an issue unless you go deep water wading. Otherwise you will need to check them reguarly. (Monthly would be about right).

Trev.

Dullbird you have mail (PM)

Hi welcome to the Forum
Is you disco a manual or Auto

My fender did this today on the trip home but on the passenger side. I will be playing with it tomorrow. My drain tube doesn't have anything on the end but it might have been clogged with mud for the trip I did with my brother over christmas.