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Ford S-Max 2014 | rain water leaks

Ford S-Max 2014 | rain water leaks

Name: Ford S-Max 2014 | rain water leaks
Uploaded: 2022-01-21T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 4 min 29 s
Description: This S-Max is still leaking water from the bottom of the doors, despite somebody's previous attempt at repairing the leaks with a very generous amount of sealant.

Video transcript

0:00 OK, today we have a S-Max in. It's a 2014, so we're just going to show you what we've found so far. And so if we focus on the passenger door membrane, what we're going to do is we're going to put a bit of water down this side here, just simulating this out in the rain. And what it should do is it should drop out the bottom of the door, which it is doing.

0:22 But if we go and have a little bit of a closer look, we can see that it's dripping out from here. So, and then that's then going to work its way onto this rubber here, and then it's then going to work its way into the car. So that one's got a leak on there. The only thing is, if we look closely, there's signs that someone has been behind here and sealed this before. The problem is, it looks like they may have put too much sealer on the door membrane and actually

0:48 stuck the door cards on, and the door cards are now stuck to the actual door. If we just quickly come around to this side here, you can see this one a bit better, and it looks like all four have been resealed but only one is leaking. And we can see this bit here, we've got the sealant, and we can see that it's been pushed through the actual door card here. And so it may be a bit of an issue trying to get them off, and where they've

1:13 been stuck. And also we've got obviously sealant underneath, and it looks like we've got a bit of overspray underneath the door there. So that would be obviously the door membrane coming up to the top, and quite common on the focus of, sorry, on the folds. And we can see here that there's started to be a fracture, and this side doesn't look that bad, but it is starting to fracture, so after time that will open up and let water in. If we come to the passenger side, we can see that it's fractured quite bad, so that's going to

1:45 let water in, run down obviously the back of the C pillar, and then it's going to then run into the car. And then we're going to go on to the rear air vent, which is behind the rear bumper. What we've got is we've got a twisty camera up into the box section, and we can see here this is the back of the air vent. So what we're going to do is we're just lining this up a little bit. Okay, so if I put that, so that's like that. And then what we're

2:17 going to do is we're going to pour a bit of water on the outside of the car, just on the back of the bumper, and then if we look on the inside we can see that the air vent is leaking quite heavily into the box section. And so there we go, so we've found everything so far. I believe the air vents correspond with both footwells being wet, because what it will do is it will fill up this box section and then slowly work its way down past all the plastics and then fill it up

2:44 as well as obviously you've got the door membrane on this side helping, and obviously we've got the welded seams at the top. So there we go, so that's everything we've found so far. And just to have a quick look inside underneath this little section here where all the tools are, we can see that we've got a lot of mould down in this section here. And so it may be worth giving it an odour kill just to remove all the mould, and that is obviously wet down there as well. If we

3:13 come to the front here, just feels damp. It doesn't feel waterlogged, but it does feel damp. Okay, and then if we go over to the passenger side once again, we'll come underneath this little bit here, and we can feel that that's damp to touch on that bottom section there. And you can see obviously how much moulds in that section there. And then if we then come to the front. Okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to try and lift this carpet back a bit. That's it

4:04 this carpet back. Okay, so it doesn't feel wet in the passenger front, and but it's possible it hasn't reached obviously all the way down yet. And so there we go, so we're just going to put an estimate together and see what we can do.

Jan

2022

This S-Max is still leaking water from the bottom of the doors, despite somebody's previous attempt at repairing the leaks with a very generous amount of sealant.

We will remove the door cards and check out the door membranes and replace if need be.

We are not surprised to find the rear air vents leaking, as they do on all makes of car over a certain age. We'll remove the rear bumper and replace these with new ones.

This Ford also has the issue of cracks appearing around the seams on the rear door hinges. Modern cars are usually spot welded and this doesn't create waterproof seams, so instead they apply a sealant along the seams and paint over it. Over time this can harden and shrink, so as the car flexes as it goes around corners, these seams can crack and let in water. The solution is straightforward, we will just apply new sealant over the top.

The car isn't too wet, but it seems somebody has tackled some of the problems before and may well have attempted to dry the car. There is evidence that there has been water getting into the boot and running under the back carpets for a long time, and there is plenty of mould.

Before we start work on a car, we decontaminate it with an antifungal and antimicrobial for exactly this reason. Otherwise, it isn't safe for us to work on; mould is a problem that needs to be taken seriously. Even so, we would recommend this car be cleaned and decontaminated properly, especially if it's used for the school run.