Water & rusty bits coming in at the top of the front windscreen...

rockdemon

rockdemon

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Didnt have much time yesterday but did have a peek inside the front bit of the headline and it looks like there is condensation or drops all along the front inner roof rail. Any advice before i start dismantling the rest of the headlining gratefully received.

Rich
 
If i understood well, you don't need to touch the headlining, but you'd have to take the windscreen and rubber seal out.
 
Possibly. I'll get the front bit off completely later and see if I can get a picture....
 
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If the car has a roof aerial, that is likely where the leak is.
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I think you may be right. I have an issue in that the screws for the rear view mirror seem to be rusted in hard.... Need to solve that so i can get to the aerial from the inside.
 
I think so yes. Hurts though doing that;-) thanks for helping me make sense of it.

Rich
 
what sort of mirror stem you got? I would just sacrafice it easily replace with a 2nd hand one.

Colin
 
Hi Colin the screw is stuck into the roof rail. I'll sort it out. I'm just grumbling ;-) got 5 cars on the drive and every one bar one has an issue.... The saab 9000 turbo is leaking water into the roof lining too. Scooby gx has a knackered head gasket and the prius has an ecu code which nobody can make head nor tail of and is on its 4th set of ecus...
 
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As we can see it's pretty sodden in there. I've dried it off, and I've tightened the aerial down (had half a mm of play) with some non drying adhesive. Hopefully that will stop it, though I'm not sure if that's the only place it could be coming from looking at the amount of moisture...
 
plenty evidence on the rusty bolt there.

water will find a way in, if it doesnt stop dust the area with talc it will show up any leaks.

colin
 
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