Range Rover Sport 2013 | water leak found

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0:00 Okay, so first video, and just to show you what we've found so far, only on the evidence. We haven't managed to get any water down where obviously you was originally saying where it was, and but let's just show you a few telltale signs here. And if we just quickly go up onto the sunroof, so we can see inside the sunroof gully that it's all nice and dirty. We believe there possibly was a blockage on the driver's side, and basically what it was doing is we believe it was coming through.

0:37 I can just show you. So we believe it was coming through on top of this bit here. As you can see, you can just see a gap there on top, as we believe if it was filling up it would have come into there. And then just to show you obviously on top of the headlining, we have signs of obviously dirty water which had dried; that's what's caused it to ring. And we believe once it comes out the cassette it uses the A-pillar to run down, which

1:12 is obviously evidence we've seen, which you've seen should I say. And if we just quickly go up here underneath the dashboard, and we can see this module box here, and there's evidence that there has been water running down this box. But we can't get any water back into that position, and so we believe that's obviously the reason being is because maybe it's been de-blocked. Also I've just managed to lift your carpet up here, and there we go, so we can see how much water is actually in that underlay. The problem with the underlay is it's

1:52 very thick, and obviously we've put two nights over dry on there. The only problem is as well is if we look down here, we can see that there's a row of cables. Now these row of cables actually go into a gully, and we can see down in that gully. I can just put my torch somewhere so we can see what's going on.

2:17 Okay, so there seems to be water in the bottom of that gully there where these cables run. It hasn't gone all the way to the back of the carpet, but it is still in the gully, and so we'd obviously have to suck that out when we're drying it out. As you can see, there's a lot of water in there. Okay, so we believe, so obviously get this one sorted once you were dry all out. We've put new sunroof pipes in, and then I think what we'd have to do is then obviously test to see

2:59 obviously if any waters come in. And I've spent probably about half a day trying to get water into this point and nothing's revealed itself, and so that's that one done there. And just to show you on the passenger side, Gary had noticed that on your little net here, so it's not fitted right here, so there's a little bit of sagging just here. So obviously as that's shutting, as you can see, the nets, the net kind of lifts up a little bit, but that doesn't seem to be

3:33 the problem. And but you can see at the back there obviously where it's all come off, and so we could do with obviously putting that back on. And so that's what we've found so far.

Dec
30
2020

Déjà vu all over again. The RangeRover Sport is leaking from the sunroof, rainwater running down he A-pillars.

Solution: Like most sunroofs, there is a tendency for the drainage holes to get blocked on these if they are parked under a tree and collect lots of debris. The Range Rovers have an unfortunate additional problem where the connectors on the pipes become brittle and break. These will be replaced. The car had a lot of water in it and as the carpets are so thick, it might take a considerable amount of time to dry, even with us extracting the water and using our industrial dryers.

Question: "My local garage doesn't seem to be too enthusiastic about helping me with my leak". Is this a bad sign?" 

Answer: It is not a favourite job of local mechanics. We often find the ones in our area refer them to us. It's all about diagnosing the problem(s) and you don't always get it right first time, in fact, typically you don't, which can mean angry customers shouting at you when you are trying to do your best. When you add to this that they generally aren't set up to dry cars, many of them would rather be doing something else.  

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