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Old Oct 1, 2018 | 02:44 PM
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Default Passenger side door leaking when raining

With my carpet out, I noticed recently that I have a leak on the passenger side of the jeep. It gathers around the bigger drain hole in the front. I checked the cowl and windshield but it doesn't look like it comes from there. Upon further investigation I am almost certain it comes from the door. Water gets in at the top, drains along the A pillar, and when it drops it goes around the door seal at the bottom and then overflows onto the floor, a drip at a time.

Does anyone have experience with this? My plan is to find a seal that I can maybe stick on the inside of the door to redirect water elsewhere, but I'd love to get more ideas if it happened to anyone else.

Thank you!
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Old Oct 1, 2018 | 04:26 PM
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Did you taste the water? It might be anti-freeze from the heater core. Just a thought.

If a door seal, you can do a quick fix and simply put a small diameter cotton rope around the door seal between the door jam and the actual puffy part of the seal. In essence, swelling the seal out toward the door. There's a YouTube video by Bleepin Jeep on doing this. Might help.

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Old Oct 2, 2018 | 06:39 AM
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wow i've followed bleepin jeep for a while and never seen that video. thanks for the info, I'll definitely try that.

doubt it's antifreeze, the jeep sits weeks at a time and the only time there is water is after/during raining. I go wipe it because the last thing I want is rust.. I just replaced the damn pans.
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