[Vwdiesel] leak in front windshield seal?

[David Cook]

I've read more than once about using a windshield
urethane for these kinds of things, that it is
superior to silicone.  I've read a about it on the
cabriolet boards, so I'd check with a windshield place
about urethane.

David

--- Sandy Cameron <scameron at compmore.net> wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 3/30/05 -0700, you wrote:
> >My '82 4-door Rabbit has always leaked a few drops
> into the passenger
> >foot well when it rains, but it has begun to leak
> by the gallon this
> >year.  Literally.  I now keep a little plastic
> container to bail with,
> >but really I need a bilge pump.
> >
> >These quantities are coming in when the car is
> sitting still, during
> >not particularly impressive little rainstorms (we
> only get maybe 12" a
> >year here in Salt Lake).
> >
> >I've poked around a bit, so I know it's coming down
> from the windshield
> >seal, but that's about all I've figured out.  Are
> there typical ways in
> >which this happens?  Seems hard to believe that
> much water can come
> >right through the seal!
> 
> Here's the scoop, you may be surprised.
> 
> It's getting in across the top of the windshield, 
> under the lip that meets
> the roof, only happens when siting still, slipstream
> takes it away when
> driving. 
> 
> I found this out a year or so ago when I was
> tremclading goldie. It had been
> leaking quite a bit, dripping above the relay box
> (install plastic bag for
> protection.
> 
> I did not mask the upper edge of the windshield seal
> too accurately, and
> painted the edge of the seal to the roof. 
> The leak stopped immediately and completely. 
> 
> When I was parting out one, (or perhaps it was when
> I peeled the seal off
> goldie2),  
> I found there is a little channel behind the outer
> flap of the seal, and
> water that gets in at the top runs all the way
> across, down and along the
> bottom, where it drips out on the electrical vitals.
> 
> Go across the top of the seal and seal it to the
> roof with silicon, tar,
> paint, anything that will stop the water.
> 
> The leak is very slow, and the journey through the
> channel is slow, so
> spraying with a hose doesn't get immediate results,
> but the floor will be
> wet in the morning.
> 
> On goldie2, the seal was so perished, I cut the lip
> off all away around, and
> caulked the channel with silicone.
> 
> Sandy
> 
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David Cook
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