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water leak - AGAIN!

nwhear

nwhear

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Hi

having owend my new Boxter 2.9 for a couple of months now I was horrified to discover water on the inside of the drivers side window following some heavy rain over the previous day. This is noticable if one drops and raises the window. The same does not happen on the passenger side window which is as dry as a bone.

The car is brand new with 1300miles on the clock.

I removed one of the bungs on the bottom of the door (all securely in place) and there is water inside the door pannel.

The interesting thing is that this happened to my previous boxter again drivers side only and the OPC never did manage to correct it and I did notice exactly the same on a new boxter I was loaned when my old car went in for a service once.

Can anyone explain the problem and is it a known fault that one has to live with?

I have emailed the OPC and await their response.

Thanks
 
There are some who have had success in curing this by having the door membrane replaced or the door mirror reseated and resealed. I doubt very much that the drains would be blocked on a new car. Anyhow, as the car is so new I would get the dealer to have a look at it.
 
I would suggest some work on your part
1) Phone ASAP Porsche GB Reading and discuss with their Technical Dept,
2) also Speak to a senior Tech at AFN Reading, I rang them once and they put me in the right direction,

Only then you might be able and better prepared to
3) talk to your dealer and not accept any possible garbled bullxxxx
4) You Might also consider - going into the dealer workshop and talk face to face to their Workshop manager and a Tech
its all agro I am afraid and you can do without it,however you need to get action as its appalling on a new car and price of cars has no bearing on price and so called quality,ask any Aston Owner or hand build car owner..
Good Luck and dwell no longer, Porsche owe you first class service as the car is not up to standard at present..Just might help to look into it as suggested..
 
Hiagain

thanks for responses.

The OPC has got back to me and they feel it may well be condesation as they dont feel it is rain ingress as its a new car so seals should be fine. Interestingly they have had a new Caymen back with the same problem just recently. Why it affects just the drivers door they cant explain except I am usually the only one in my car - however I do seem to put out a lot of water vapour if thats the case - at least its not hot air I suppose although some might disagree on that!

Browser hi -thanks for the steer - who are AFN Reading and do you have a number for them I will call them and Porsche GB as you sugest. I have to say however Porsche Solihull I have always found to be very helpfull and got back to me straight away on this.

I will let you know how things go unless I drown in my own moisture!!

Nick
 
I think the water gains access to the door space on the "wrong" side of the membrane via the back edge of the glass that dosent quite meet the ruber seal in the fully raised position. as the pictures show (I realise these are in the dropped position) but a bit of duct tape over the gap kept the windows dry despite very heavy rain over night!


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Car back from OPC today no leak found - membranes to be replaced to be on the safe side.

However when the car was delivered home this evening a Christmas snow effect, probably a "Porsche feature", was noticed when looking at the headlight unit!

Anyone else have this problem on the 2009 Boxter?

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Forgive my disability - dyslexia not much helped by spell checkers! I am always getting it wrong my apologies if it offends.

Indeed BOXSTER it is - I will type it out 100 times for you![;)]

Anyway the rear light clusters on my 2009 BOXSTER now have condensation in both rear light clusters[:mad:]

regards
 
Re - Boxster leaks
Hi, I have a 1997 Boxster 2.5 which I bought 8 months ago.
There is a lot of water behind the drivers seat on the carpeting and I have noticed also behind passenger seat but not as much.
Because of this, the inside of the windows are always misted up at the moment.
The car is kept on the drive and mostly covered up but there is obviously rain getting in through the canvas roof.
Has anyone else had this problem and is there a cure? The roof itself doesn't appear to leak so it must be around the seal near the plastic rear window somewhere. I only use the car once or twice a month at the moment so don't think its from underneath the car.
Thanks inadvance.

John
 
Hi water on the carpets in the BOXSTER (there got it right) can be due to blockage of the drain holes under the clam shell

half open the roof and then go round an look in either side and clear any blockage.

Quite inportant as some bit of electronic wizzardy is located under the passenger set and if this gets wet car stops working and its VERY expensive to replace!!

There have been a number of threads on this point which explain it better than I

regards
 

Sorry to hear about your problems, I have a new 2.9 and my boxster has been parked outside for 3 weeks in some seriously wet conditions and no leaks or condensation issues yet.

If i experience any similar problems myself I will post here.

Cheers,
Carl.
 
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