Thanks for letting me in to the form.
We have a 2007 Jeep Commander with NO SUNROOF and yet on the 'passenger's side grab handle fastener cover' collects and drips rain or wash water down the inside windshield pillar plus drips come from the passenger side kick panel and wets the rug. Nothing on the driver's side. That's dry.
The water occurs above the dash so it's not the air inlet between the windscreen and the hood, by the wipers.
I'm thinking that the windshield leaks in the upper right hand side. It's here where water finds it's way in. If not the glass than the screws that hold the factory roof rack to the sheet metal roof panel might leak.
Since I'm a sail boater, serious consideration is to do the following.
1~Close up the body using the servo-motors for as many body ventilation air inlets as possible.
2~Pressurize the body by opening the backseat window enough for the hose of my shop vacuum to be inserted and seal up the remaining window opening with corrugated paper and tape.
3~Push the Exhaust from a shop vacuum into the body and wait about 1/2 an hour to assure all possible pressure.
4~Standing on a ladder squirt 'Leak Seek' onto the top and sides of the windshield where the glass is set in a black sealer surround and wait for the bubbles showing the leak. Identify and dry the areas.
5~Once the leak is identified...
6~Reverse the shop vacuum hose and try to pull a negative pressure inside the Commander's body.
7~West Marine sells 3-M 5200 slow set in black. This product flows for about a hour before setting up. So put a bead around the windscreen and see if the 3-M 5200 slow set will be drawn into the leak over a very long time. An hour or so.
That's the plan. Any thoughts? Even without a Sun Roof does the 'A' pillar supporting the windscreen have any drain tubes or pockets that need to be cleaned out to channel water to under the body? Maybe the drain tubes for a Sun Roof are there with or with out an actual Sun Roof? [why design and manufacture two different 'A' pillars?]
SIDE BAR: We made in ground swimming pools where the hole is lined with sand and a vinyl liner is pulled tightly down to conform to the sand by using four or five shop vacs running for 12 hours. Works great!
We have a 2007 Jeep Commander with NO SUNROOF and yet on the 'passenger's side grab handle fastener cover' collects and drips rain or wash water down the inside windshield pillar plus drips come from the passenger side kick panel and wets the rug. Nothing on the driver's side. That's dry.
The water occurs above the dash so it's not the air inlet between the windscreen and the hood, by the wipers.
I'm thinking that the windshield leaks in the upper right hand side. It's here where water finds it's way in. If not the glass than the screws that hold the factory roof rack to the sheet metal roof panel might leak.
Since I'm a sail boater, serious consideration is to do the following.
1~Close up the body using the servo-motors for as many body ventilation air inlets as possible.
2~Pressurize the body by opening the backseat window enough for the hose of my shop vacuum to be inserted and seal up the remaining window opening with corrugated paper and tape.
3~Push the Exhaust from a shop vacuum into the body and wait about 1/2 an hour to assure all possible pressure.
4~Standing on a ladder squirt 'Leak Seek' onto the top and sides of the windshield where the glass is set in a black sealer surround and wait for the bubbles showing the leak. Identify and dry the areas.
5~Once the leak is identified...
6~Reverse the shop vacuum hose and try to pull a negative pressure inside the Commander's body.
7~West Marine sells 3-M 5200 slow set in black. This product flows for about a hour before setting up. So put a bead around the windscreen and see if the 3-M 5200 slow set will be drawn into the leak over a very long time. An hour or so.
That's the plan. Any thoughts? Even without a Sun Roof does the 'A' pillar supporting the windscreen have any drain tubes or pockets that need to be cleaned out to channel water to under the body? Maybe the drain tubes for a Sun Roof are there with or with out an actual Sun Roof? [why design and manufacture two different 'A' pillars?]
SIDE BAR: We made in ground swimming pools where the hole is lined with sand and a vinyl liner is pulled tightly down to conform to the sand by using four or five shop vacs running for 12 hours. Works great!
