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Car Forum / Alfa Romeo Cars / May 2005

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Leaking GTV

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Tony Rickard - 26 Apr 2005 19:04 GMT
My wife's GTV has been leaking under heavy rain. The water drips onto the
pedals. I can only guess this is the windscreen leaking.

Tonight the sunroof leaked as well.

Any simple remedies - glass to rubber sealants or anything to try?

Wifey is starting to talk of car replacements as a solution and even
commenting on how nice some German cars are looking these days...

Urgent help needed!

Cheers
Tony
SteveH - 26 Apr 2005 20:19 GMT
> My wife's GTV has been leaking under heavy rain. The water drips onto the
> pedals. I can only guess this is the windscreen leaking.
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>
> Urgent help needed!

Don't know about the screen - nothing short of removal and re-seating
usually works for bonded screens.

For the sunroof, I'd try vaseline or baby oil on the rubber seals before
any other solution.

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Catman - 27 Apr 2005 16:39 GMT
>> My wife's GTV has been leaking under heavy rain. The water drips onto the
>> pedals. I can only guess this is the windscreen leaking.
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> For the sunroof, I'd try vaseline or baby oil on the rubber seals before
> any other solution.

Yep.  That's what Ferrari recommend (apparently)  I've used it with moderate
success as well.
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Andy Wilson - 07 May 2005 11:34 GMT
>>> My wife's GTV has been leaking under heavy rain. The water drips onto
>>> the
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> moderate
> success as well.

It's also worth checking that the drain tubes are not blocked and causing
water to build up in the recess.

Andy Wilson, Red GTV TS
craigvitulli@hotmail.com - 18 May 2005 20:57 GMT
I had to find the cause of water ingress on my cousins gtv and after
much stripping out of the interior to trace the drain pipes from the
sunroof found the cause. The drain pipes run from the sunroof along the
sides of the roof and down the rear pillars, they then go into the boot
space behind the side trims and exit through holes in the floor, one
either side. The ends of these pipes can be seen just by laying under
the rear of the car. In the case of my cousins car the nearside pipe
was excessive in length and at some point someone had pushed it from
the exiting end back through the hole in the floor to match the offside
one for length. This caused it to kink behind the side trim in the boot
and restrict flow of water so that once the pipe was full the water
would build up in the sunroof recess and leak into the cabin. The fix
was a lot easier than the strippping of the interior, just pull the
pipe back through so there was no kink and chop off the excess to match
the other side.
 
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