Leaky windows

Hi everybody,

The recent inclement weather has made me very ware that I have a leak, or 2 to be precise!

Both the sliding side windows on my Dorset are letting in water, soaking all the trim underneath.

I have spent ages looking for drainage holes that might be blocked but no success. Has anyone had this happen or have any advice?
Thank you so much.

Ian

Hi Ian
Welcome to the forum from Bridington,I'm sure you will get some help shortly.
Boaby

Ian,

It’s a known issue on the side sliding windows on AS panel van conversions. There’s a small diameter drainage tube that ships water from a square hole in the lower sliding channel of the window and dumps it overboard, behind the lower edge of the fixed glass panel. When it runs clear there’s a tell-tale bead of water running down the lower body panel below the sliding windows.

We had the problem two years ago and were passing AS at Willersey so asked them to sort it, which they did there and then. It looked to be something they did routinely, and they directed a compressed air gun into the square drainage hole and gave it a few blasts. They then aimed a small volume of water into the hole and repeated the sequence until it started running freely out of the tube and down the side of the van.

Ours have just started to block again so I’ll be following the same procedure this weekend, albeit with a canned compressed air.  Another forum member wrote up his experience here, blowing air in both directions through the tube:

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A few owners have reported that the tube could not be unblocked, and the problem was found to be incorrect window installation by Peugeot, in which the tube got compressed or otherwise sealed up by careless application of the window sealant.  Hopefully yours are blocked by nothing more than road dirt, which is easily solved.

Tim

HI Tim
Thanks for the advice. Worked a treat, I found that using a foot pump with the attachment for blowing up footballs works really well!!

The their side has some badly placed sealant thanks to a previous owner trying to do,ve the same problem. Will dig it out and try again.

Ian

Pleased to hear it worked for you Ian.  Not so in my case today, I seem to be in the situation covered in the thread below, with water weeping from the drainage tube into the inside lower edge of the fixed glass panel.  This is the case for both sliding windows and is clearly a weakness in these vans, judging by the reports of others in this thread:

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So far, in over 2 years of owning our van it's only proved to be a problem in the most severe weather, i.e. horizontal storm-force rain, but I'll be keeping a close eye on it now I know more about what's happening.
 
Tim