Proton door water leak FML

in #cars6 years ago

A couple of weeks ago, when it was raining heavily at least every other day, I went into my Proton Persona one morning and was greeted with a strong damp stench. A quick investigation revealed that the right side rear door was leaking water into the cabin which made the carpet wet.

Water leakage from the door is a common issue with this generation of Proton Personas. It is easy to tell, just look a the lower door aperture rubber and see if there is sitting water in the grooves.

Opening up the door card reveals my suspicions to be true.

See that translucent sheet over the metallic door? that is called the weathersheet. When it rains or when you are washing your car, the water enters from the bottom of the window and drains out from the holes at the bottom of the door. The weathersheet is sealed to the door using a bitumen adhesive like what you see above (the black line going around the weathersheet is the bitumen adhesive), and is supposed to keep the water inside the door.

As you can see in the photo above, a short length of the adhesive has came off. My fingers are not supposed to be able to enter the sealed area like this. This is where the water leaked out.

Now, a proper fix would be to replace the entire weathersheet and re-seal it with fresh adhesive. But since I am only interested in a quick temporary fix for the time being, I proceeded with my ghetto-style quick fix by first pressing the sheet and adhesive back into place.

And then "strengtening" the adhesion of the sheet to the metal using copious amounts of tape.

This is just a temporary fix, although I will be waiting for it to leak again before proceeding with the proper fix, hopefully later than sooner :P


Sort:  

Thank you for sharing your posts with us. This post was curated by TeamMalaysia as part of our community support. Looking forward for more posts from you.

To support the growth of TeamMalaysia Follow our upvotes by using steemauto.com and follow trail of @myach

Vote TeamMalaysia witness bitrocker2020 using this link vote bitrocker2020 witness

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.35
TRX 0.12
JST 0.040
BTC 70638.80
ETH 3565.34
USDT 1.00
SBD 4.73