By Brett Barton (Brett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 04:41 am: Edit

I went to the gym this morning and it was raining pretty hard. I finished my workout, got a shower and got dressed to go to the office. I went out to the Disco got in and started it. When I pulled out of my parking space, water poured (as if you were dumping it from a 5-gallon bucket) from the rear air vents. I hit the brakes and the water poured onto me in the driver seat. I had a water proof jacket on, so my upper body was dry, but my lower body and seat were soaked! I looked at the headliner and it was full of water from the rear air vents all the way back to the rear door. The sunroof's were both closed all the way. The windows were all up. The Disco was parked on level ground. I quickly pulled into a bank drive through and got a towel out of my bag and dried the seats and headliner as best I could.
Please tell me what this could be. The truck is parked in my garage at night, and in a garage at the office all day. It is rarely outside for long periods where it could get tree stuff in the sunroof, etc. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you fix it? I hope to be dry in the next hour or so...

By John Cinquegrana (John_C) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 04:49 am: Edit

On a RR the vent hoses get clogged up. What I do is open the sunroof and using a compressor blow out all the gunk that has accumulated in the hoses. Hope this helps. Good luck.

By Gregg Warnken (Gregg) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 05:26 am: Edit

You could also straighten out a coathanger and run it through the drain hoses (open sunroof first). Seems they get glogged and will back up with water, dumping it into the cabin as yours did. Good luck

By ken on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 05:31 am: Edit

same thing happened to me LR dealer cleaned the drain and replaced the seals they also replaced my headliner at my request. I didn't want the water to stain it. So if your disco is still under warrenty give it a shot.

By Brett Barton (Brett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 11:47 am: Edit

Thank you to everyone for the info. I am going to run home around lunch and try to vacuum any remaining water out of the truck. I will look at the drains. Where are they located?

By John Cinquegrana (John_C) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 12:38 pm: Edit

On the RR you can see them when you open the sunroof, from the top, right on the edge, can't miss 'em.

Go home for lunch, man I wish I could do that.

By Brett Barton (Brett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 02:34 pm: Edit

John, I do not see any obvious drain holes. I had an 88 RR and I cleaned the holes out, but the Disco has a funky set up since the glass slides up and out of the track. I looked in the track while I was at home and did not see any drain holes, or any dirt for that matter. I never use the rear sunroof. My wife is convinced that the water is coming in around the roof rack. I do not see where it could be coming in any place around there. Could my alpine windows be leaking?

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 02:44 pm: Edit

>"Could my alpine windows be leaking?"

Yes, most certainly could be leaking form the alpines, but doesn't that usually result in the "waterfall" down the D-pillars rather than accumulation in the headliner? I've had leaks around the windshield with trickle down the A-pillar, but never headliner accumulation.

By gp (Garrett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 02:55 pm: Edit

i had some water leak into my headliner via the raingutter. yep......there is a small seam over the raingutter and i was and still am a little getting water between that seem and it runs out around the inside of the one alpine and the rear speaker. and with enough water it will run up around the headliner to the front of the truck. so i just culked the hell out of my right getter. i stopped it for a little while and is not as bad right now. overall the seals on the windows do not always last that long. they tend to split at the corners alot.
good luck on the hunt.

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 04:25 pm: Edit

you can drill drainage holes in the bottom of the rain gutter so water can't accumulate there and infiltrate the cabin.

By Brett Barton (Brett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 04:54 pm: Edit

Bluegill and Garrett, have either of you had problems with your sunroof drains?

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 06:30 pm: Edit

no sunroofs here...

By gp (Garrett) on Wednesday, October 10, 2001 - 07:47 pm: Edit

have them, but they are working fine. so far. have never checked the drain hoses on them. but AOK so far.