Found a water leak. Any ideas ?

JayPichardo · 06-24-2018, 08:45 PM

Got in my car and noticed that my driver side A pillar was wet. It looks like I have a leak somewhere and it ends up in my driver seat footwell. Any ideas ?

Gangplank · 06-24-2018, 09:01 PM

That's a new one. Can't tell in the pic, is it wet on the window side or windshield side?

KNS · 06-24-2018, 10:31 PM

Do you have a sunroof?

Esteban · 06-25-2018, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by KNS

Do you have a sunroof?

All 135s in the US have sunroofs. No sunroof delete option for the 135i here.

Gangplank · 06-25-2018, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by KNS

Do you have a sunroof?

I was thinking the same thing... sunroof drains clogged?

captain slowly · 06-25-2018, 11:24 AM

most likely, the sunroof drains are clogged

chris_flies · 06-25-2018, 11:37 AM

Check the windshield gasket, too, that was an issue at some point.

Mine was flying off at my last track event, but 16 bizillion torrential downpours later, and no issue after haphazardly putting it back...

JayPichardo · 06-25-2018, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by captain slowly

most likely, the sunroof drains are clogged

Thats what I am thinking I am going to do a water test today

zigi · 06-26-2018, 05:02 AM

Hi, I have a similar problem, water in my driver side in the back and front.
2 days ago I have located sunroof drain, and found out that it is clogged with dirt (incredible amount of dirt)...

So I took off the drain "cap" and cleaned it, and also cleaned the drain with small pipe, and after that water started going out of the drain...
I have poured some more water from the top, and it was flowing normally.
I hope that solved the problem, I will just wait few days to dry-out the interior, and wait for next rain(or simulate it

) to check if that fixed a problem.

JayPichardo · 06-28-2018, 03:09 PM

It is in fact my sunroof drain

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zigi Registered 5 Rep 1 Posts Drives: 120d Join Date: Jun 2018 Location: Serbia iTrader: (0)	Hi, I have a similar problem, water in my driver side in the back and front. 2 days ago I have located sunroof drain, and found out that it is clogged with dirt (incredible amount of dirt)... So I took off the drain "cap" and cleaned it, and also cleaned the drain with small pipe, and after that water started going out of the drain... I have poured some more water from the top, and it was flowing normally. I hope that solved the problem, I will just wait few days to dry-out the interior, and wait for next rain(or simulate it ) to check if that fixed a problem. Attached Images
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