Does your doors retain water?
#1
Driver School Candidate
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Does your doors retain water?
We have a 2016 Lexus RCF 300 and every time it gets wet the windows will streak for days, just like if it was out of the car wash! Made note of it upon taking delivery of the car. Now that it is in for its 5k service, we are trying to have it corrected but we are being told by the dealer Wilkie Lexus, that this is normal and they are refusing to fix it...
Is anyone else having this issue?
Is anyone else having this issue?
#2
Lexus Test Driver
Yes, my RC's doors seem to retain water for a long time, at least longer than my other cars. I can't roll my windows down after a car wash for at least 2 days without windows getting wet again, and this is on hot sunny days.
#4
Lexus Champion
my RCF does, it appears to be the sound deadening material on the inside of the door panel that stays wet. as you can see from this image, it makes up a large portion of the inside of the panel, and it is a carpet padding like material.
my detailer will typically roll the window down and use a the air compressor to blow down between the door and panel to try and blow off as much excess water as he can, he does it with the door open and you can see it drip like a leaky faucet for several minutes. but it does help stop the streaking.
I've considered removing the panels and heat shrinking plastic wrap around the material to prevent it from absorbing water, more because I am concerned with mold build up over time than the annoying streaking issue.
my detailer will typically roll the window down and use a the air compressor to blow down between the door and panel to try and blow off as much excess water as he can, he does it with the door open and you can see it drip like a leaky faucet for several minutes. but it does help stop the streaking.
I've considered removing the panels and heat shrinking plastic wrap around the material to prevent it from absorbing water, more because I am concerned with mold build up over time than the annoying streaking issue.
#5
[QUOTE=mjeds;9994436]my RCF does, it appears to be the sound deadening material on the inside of the door panel that stays wet. as you can see from this image, it makes up a large portion of the inside of the panel, and it is a carpet padding like material.
my detailer will typically roll the window down and use a the air compressor to blow down between the door and panel to try and blow off as much excess water as he can, he does it with the door open and you can see it drip like a leaky faucet for several minutes. but it does help stop the streaking.
I've considered removing the panels and heat shrinking plastic wrap around the material to prevent it from absorbing water, more because I am concerned with mold build up over time than the annoying streaking issue.
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It is not the sound deadening material that captures the moisture, that sound deadening material does not even touch the glass! It is the window sweeps that retain the moisture. There is a sweep on each side of the glass it acts like a sandwich with the glass in between. One of the sweeps is shown at the top edge of your picture on the door card panel and the other is attached to the door frame. For whatever reason they wick moisture more than most cars and it takes a long time to dry out.
my detailer will typically roll the window down and use a the air compressor to blow down between the door and panel to try and blow off as much excess water as he can, he does it with the door open and you can see it drip like a leaky faucet for several minutes. but it does help stop the streaking.
I've considered removing the panels and heat shrinking plastic wrap around the material to prevent it from absorbing water, more because I am concerned with mold build up over time than the annoying streaking issue.
[/QUOT
It is not the sound deadening material that captures the moisture, that sound deadening material does not even touch the glass! It is the window sweeps that retain the moisture. There is a sweep on each side of the glass it acts like a sandwich with the glass in between. One of the sweeps is shown at the top edge of your picture on the door card panel and the other is attached to the door frame. For whatever reason they wick moisture more than most cars and it takes a long time to dry out.
#6
Lexus Test Driver
Yea if that sound deadening gets wet it would smell really bad.
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