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Scooby P1
Original Poster
1,515 posts
98 months
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Anyone driven in the pis*ing rain before?
First time i have yesterday and i ended up with soaking wet carpeted bits between the door and the seat between the bars of the chassis. Almost puddles to be honest. Same place on both sides, so evidently the windows leak.
Any ideas / solutions?
Wipers were remarkably good in constant rain, but one is loosing its rubber so any advice / links on where to get the best new wiper blades would be good too.
Cheers all
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daddysumo
2,422 posts
82 months
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Scooby P1 said: Anyone driven in the pis*ing rain before?
First time i have yesterday and i ended up with soaking wet carpeted bits between the door and the seat between the bars of the chassis. Almost puddles to be honest. Same place on both sides, so evidently the windows leak.
Any ideas / solutions?
Wipers were remarkably good in constant rain, but one is loosing its rubber so any advice / links on where to get the best new wiper blades would be good too.
Cheers all It's usually the floor that leaks in those places not the doors..
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simonx50
468 posts
29 months
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That would be the floor panels lawrence..if they haven't been done chances are they will need taking off and re sealing.
Not the nicests of jobs to do but worth doing.. you'll find the ali panels are probably beyond repair.
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Lucozade
2,524 posts
148 months
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Be careful Lawrence this is exactly how it started for me!
Whilst replacing the floor you may as well do:
1. The tunnel mod
2. Fit an oil cooler
3. Speak to trimman about getting dynomatting and new carpets.
Let the mods begin!
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NickyTwoHats
2,044 posts
110 months
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Floor no doubt about it
N2H
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Scooby P1
Original Poster
1,515 posts
98 months
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Hmmm....so this is why everyone does the floor re-sealing?!
I was never a fan of the mods that didnt "add value" like floors and tunnel mods. They just sounded like money for old rope, so to speak.
But last weekend i was wishing i had the tunnel mod as it was so damn hot.
And this weekend, its the floor as both sides let water in, and i was sure it hadnt come through the window!
Craig, rough guide to costs for asking Dave / Matt to do the floor and tunnel mod?
May as well get the to fit my stainless rear manifold before the other one breaks at the same time?
Or i could just put up with the heat and not drive it in the rain......
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NickyTwoHats
2,044 posts
110 months
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Cost will depend on how corroded the self tappers are! Quickest to drill out and replace with stainless. Shouldnt be an expensive trip and it will ad value because you can the use the car in the wet  N2H
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Scooby P1
Original Poster
1,515 posts
98 months
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NickyTwoHats said: Cost will depend on how corroded the self tappers are! Quickest to drill out and replace with stainless. Shouldnt be an expensive trip and it will ad value because you can the use the car in the wet N2H Nice thought process Nicky - like it. Lucky person who is buying your car then as you've already had it done! Goodbye from the Noble clan.
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Lucozade
2,524 posts
148 months
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Scooby P1 said: Hmmm....so this is why everyone does the floor re-sealing?!
I was never a fan of the mods that didnt "add value" like floors and tunnel mods. They just sounded like money for old rope, so to speak.
But last weekend i was wishing i had the tunnel mod as it was so damn hot.
And this weekend, its the floor as both sides let water in, and i was sure it hadnt come through the window!
Craig, rough guide to costs for asking Dave / Matt to do the floor and tunnel mod?
May as well get the to fit my stainless rear manifold before the other one breaks at the same time?
Or i could just put up with the heat and not drive it in the rain...... Lol - so you can only drive it when it's cold and not raining! Erm I can't remember exactly how much it was as it was part of a bigger bill that included new grooved disks and oil cooler. And it's also so many bills since! IIRC the floor is around £400 plus labour. But unfortunately it's labour intensive. The tunnel mod is only about £60. I think Dave did the throttle cable rerouting at the same time. Basically whatever can be done when the floor is off - get it done! I would even price up some new carpet and some dynomat from Trimman. Will make a world of different. I was advised to get the oil cooler fitted too but that involved moving the ECU so turned into a bigger more expensive job. Since then I've heard they aint that good located in the side pods but I could be talking rubbish.
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Scooby P1
Original Poster
1,515 posts
98 months
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No wonder people do the floor themselves then.
Matt did notice that my floor was a bit knackered. Couple of the screws were falling out. Dry days only for the time being then!
Cooling mod is cheap? But assuming only once the floor is off.
I hear throttle cable is sensible change too.
It's almost never ending really.....i can see why a Porker GT3RS 4.0 is so expensive. A bulletproof super machine takes some R&D to get right!
p.s. why Dynomat and carpet? What's that in aid of?
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Plumber1
505 posts
30 months
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I have just done tunnel mod myself, I am no mechanic, but thanks to BobE excellent guide it was very easy
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Lucozade
2,524 posts
148 months
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Scooby P1 said: p.s. why Dynomat and carpet? What's that in aid of? Dynomat to reduce road noise. New carpets to get rid of damp smell and is relatively cheap to do. You can always upgrade to something a bit plusher too.
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TuxMan
7,151 posts
107 months
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You could offer me £5000 pounds and I still would not do the floor re seal !!! Its a b  h of a job !!!!!! Did my own swore after that if it ever needed re doing Jetstream could do it no matter what it cost !!!!!!! Tux
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slipstream 1985
3,721 posts
48 months
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the m12 is a very capable car in the rain. with the right tyres
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mgbond
5,196 posts
101 months
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I drive mine in the rain and snow. Even better now the floor mod was done a year ago. I've got a few Greek car mad mates and they pretty much took over and I just watched. Lol 
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Fett
195 posts
45 months
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Scooby P1 said: Cooling mod is cheap? But assuming only once the floor is off.
I hear throttle cable is sensible change too. I had the tunnel mod done by them on my last service and that's what they charged. Don't believe they took the main floor off to do it. Paid more for the parts than the labour. As every one says it is defiantly worth it, may have possibly been the first time I had to put the heater on on the way home from them!
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Adrian W
8,119 posts
97 months
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I went out in the rain once!
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daddysumo
2,422 posts
82 months
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Adrian W said: I went out in the rain once! How did that work out for you lol ?
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AMG Merc
8,225 posts
122 months
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Adrian W said: I went out in the rain once! So did TonyVan but here he turned around 6 seconds later after spying a spot of rain - it was, in fact, some rainwater from his neighbours guttering 
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slipstream 1985
3,721 posts
48 months
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WARNING..... DANGER TO MANIFOLD
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