Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

After a huge downpour there is water in the cabby's driver side footwell - a previous post suggested a delaminated windscreen could be the culprit. I cannot find any trace of where it is coming in - would re-sealing the windscreen help? Or driving in wellies?

Make sure the door membrane is insitu and sealing against the door assembly otherwise rain can enter the footwell via running down the window glass and through the door card.

Mr Teddy Bear wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:42 pm Make sure the door membrane is insitu and sealing against the door assembly otherwise rain can enter the footwell via running down the window glass and through the door card.

Yes even the bottom of the door seal if not in position correctly it can pour in and also check the front wheel aches we're the mud flaps are or not , the under wheel ache shield if you pull away at the bottom it can be like a compost bin , there are two holes under the bonnet at each side near bulkhead on inner wings , hose pipe down if it flow out right a way your OK if not it full of compost , I hose mine out every summer keeps them clear

Thank you for this - I should have put that the car hasn't been anywhere - just sitting on the drive. I'll try those things!

I have the same issue currently and it's a nuisance; did you resolve it, if so please advise what you did.

Thanks

robkeep wrote: ↑Mon Jul 03, 2023 3:30 pm After a huge downpour there is water in the cabby's driver side footwell - a previous post suggested a delaminated windscreen could be the culprit. I cannot find any trace of where it is coming in - would re-sealing the windscreen help? Or driving in wellies?

For my money, it's a windscreen bonding issue. Get it cut out and re-bonded, if you can find anyone who can do such a job to the right standard. I've had numerous problems in the past with water ingress into the driver and passenger footwell. At first, it was just a really old windscreen that needed re-bonding. But in later years, a replacement windscreen (for a stone-chipped screen that had gotten worse and would likely fail an MOT) was found to have little to no sealant for a good few inches on the driver's side. This was a shoddy replacement done by a national windscreen company! Obviously, they were looking to save money and were extremely sparing with their bonding agent (or it was pure malice). A decent new screen bonded in properly completely cured the problem.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the sunroof as a potential cause. People turn to ripping the headlining shell out and "rodding" the sunroof drains believing them to be blocked (with what I wonder?) and potentially pushing the rod through the rubber tubing and actually causing a water ingress problem where there wasn't one before! There are 4 drains on a Rover sunroof... one in each corner. So the "old" stories of cars being parked on an incline and this being the cause of the problem are null-and-void.

By all means do the door membrane check, but I'll bet you any money it's a windscreen bonding issue.