Water Noise!!

[evv]

Hi all.
Hope you are all well.
Hopefully someone can help me.
Ever since I got my car 8 weeks ago, and only when it rains, I have a noise that sounds like running water in the gap between the front and rear doors.
Anyone any idea what this is or had it before.
It is only when it rains and I'm thinking there is obviously water trapped in between the doors which is getting buffetted (spelling??) by the wind turbulence as I'm driving.
Anyone any ideas?
Cheers all.
Lee

[Paul Beazer]

Hi all.
Hope you are all well.
Hopefully someone can help me.
Ever since I got my car 8 weeks ago, and only when it rains, I have a noise that sounds like running water in the gap between the front and rear doors.
Anyone any idea what this is or had it before.
It is only when it rains and I'm thinking there is obviously water trapped in between the doors which is getting buffetted (spelling??) by the wind turbulence as I'm driving.
Anyone any ideas?
Cheers all.
Lee
Does your car have a sunroof???

[evv]

no mate.


Does your car have a sunroof???

[Paul Beazer]

Hmm, thats odd, AFAIK there arent any drainage channels down there, so i have no idea, perhaps one of the others may?

[pitslayer]

i had the same problem on the 2 i had/have, no idea what it is though, the car doesnt get wet inside, and its very hard for water to get down there aswell, could be water splashing up underneath, the best cure for it is to turn the stereo up

[Turbo_Steve]

Does it do it when it's not raining? Eg very cold days?

[pitslayer]

just raining

[ANTHONY]

maybe once owned by Charlie Dimmock

[Turbo_Steve]

Could it be one of the A or C pillar drains has come out and is filling up the bottom of the chassis?

[evv]

cheers all

[swinks]

Just regular issue in some Galants EAxx. We've already checked it out on polish forum of Mitsi owners. Like the clock living own life or climatronic which is blowing only hot or freezing air.
The noise should appear only while raining and driving - i know it's extremally annoying but it's Galant :evilgrin:

[Kieran]

Just regular issue in some Galants EAxx. We've already checked it out on polish forum of Mitsi owners. Like the clock living own life or climatronic which is blowing only hot or freezing air.


Off topic - We know about the clock problem on here, and we know how to fix it. But we don't know how to fix the climatronic problem. Do you guys know how to do this?

[swinks]

I guess it'd be better to make new thread, so I gonna convert all ours (polish) chats due that climatronic issue into one simple thread. Just give me few days, need to refresh my moto-vocabulary :evilgrin:

[Kieran]

I guess it'd be better to make new thread, so I gonna convert all ours (polish) chats due that climatronic issue into one simple thread. Just give me few days, need to refresh my moto-vocabulary :evilgrin:

Okay!:scholar:

[pitslayer]

oooooh something K doesnt know, im speechless.

[pitslayer]

i believe i have traced the water noise!

i put component speakers in my front doors and stuck the crossovers in the doors aswell. well decided to wire the crossovers into the amp, so door card off, speaker out, hand in to get the crossover...door is full of water, there can be no other explanation for it

[Paul Beazer]

Door obviously has blocked drainage holes then. There should be 2 or 3 where the outer panel joins the inner framework.
I have noticed waxoil can clog them up sometimes.

[pitslayer]

yeh, have to take it off soon so i can fix the door strap back on

[scc]

Sometimes you can find bracket fungus growing in the water and blocking off the drain holes!

Cheers,

scc

[Jerry Shaw]

I get the same thing. I've always wondered what it was aswell. Are the door cards a simple removal??

[Paul Beazer]

You could try just poking a stick or similar up the holes and clearing the gunk out?