Mini countrymen cooper S 2010 | Water Leak When it Rains

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0:00 Okay guys, we've got a Mini Countryman in today for our water leak procedure. So we've now finished our test, and just to show you, the customer's been trying to find this leak for quite a time. He's actually stripped a lot of the car out himself and trying to find the problem. So by the looks of it, he's been looking at it for a while. So we're just going to quickly show you what we've found. So concentrating on the driver's rear door, and what I've done here is I've put a couple of lever bars down where the window seal is. And what

0:32 we're going to do is we're just going to pour some water on the back of the window, just simulating that it's out in the rain. So if I just put you down here for a second, so it should be exiting from the bottom of the door. But as you will see, it's exiting from the bottom of the door as well as the door membrane, quite heavily. So what that's then doing is it's travelling inside the car on the driver's rear footwell. And the result of that, we come up here so we can see

1:05 underneath the carpet there that we've got a couple of bits of wetness. And if we just squeeze this sponge here, we can see that it's soaked through. And then what it's then doing is it's travelling under the driver's seat, and it's making its way to the front. And if we just look in that hole there, you can see a wiring loom which runs down the whole section of the car. And you can actually see there very closely that it's submerged in water, not completely, but there is a

1:39 puddle of water in there. And as you can see there, this is all the electrics. So there we go, so we believe we've found the leak for the customer. So it's just a case of obviously getting that sorted, and it's all done.

Nov
05
2020

Here we have a Mini Countrymen Cooper S that come in for water leak testing, it has been driving the customer mad trying to find the leak.

He has removed most of the interior he’s self in an attempt to find the problem and dry the carpets…

Under further inspection, there is a problem with the driver's rear door membrane, which is allowing water to pass into the car onto the driver's rear foot well and working its way to front floor boards.  As we can see in the video, there are a lot of electrical cables and fuse box where the rain water is collecting will eventually cause mould and corrosion and electrical problems if it’s left. The solution to this particular leaky problem is an easy fix... we just remove the door panel and make a new door membrane from plastic sheeting, which is then bonded in place to make the door waterproof again. From there it's just a matter of drying the car out, which we do with dehumidifiers and hot air blowers.

Question: "I have a convertible car and I don't have a leak, but I left the roof down and my car got soaked.  The leather has seen better days. Can you do anything?"

Answer: Yes, making cars like new again is something of a speciality of ours. We do everything from leather connolising to paintwork correction and speciality coatings. Many of our water leak customers have to make the decision to have the work done or trade the car in. If they decide to keep the car, many of them think it's worth giving it a makeover and making it good as new. Take a look around our website, we do a lot more than rain water leaks. 

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