Rain penetration - Doors

[Dave the Cat]

I have read about, and experienced water ingress when opening the door of a wet car, however i drove home tonight in heavy rain for what was about 1 hour on the motorway and had a several drips of rain land on my right arm, and yes the window and door were fully shut.

Not a big problem but wondering if anyone else on here has had this happen? or have i just got a dodgy door seal?

The car is great and impressed with the lack of understeer in this weather

[CraigW]

Well put it this way, it's not normal and should not be happening on a £10k car never mind a £30 grand one. Sounds like dodgy door seals to me. A visit to the dealership I would suggest

[GrahamFR]

I have had this but believe its a design issue so the dealer ripping out the seal and putting a new one in is probably going to make it worse. Basically, you have felt in the door contacting rubber, now this might make a nice 'golf' door shutting feel but doesn't sound right in terms of water prevention, so i just dried down the felt and its been fine since, next time you open the door have a look is the felt soaked as it cant dry out either by the looks of things

[FNJ-GTI]

Hello. I have a similar problem on my car - I made a thread about it a while ago - http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=265944.10
Picture on the second page show that the trim round the door has some weird marks/stains which don't keep out the water. I spoke to the dealer who said they would swap the trim out next time I take the car in. Im just waiting for a time I can get it into the garage.

[GrahamFR]

my only question is what exactly are they planning on swapping it with??

[FNJ-GTI]

my only question is what exactly are they planning on swapping it with??

  good question