Mobile swimming pool!!

I bought my Disco, a mark 2 HS Premium in 2004, within 2 years it was regulaly filling up with water in all the foot wells, front and back during heavy rain. The dealer could not fix the problem as they could not find the leak. So they replaced the carpets every time they were soaked, dried out the car and returned it to me.

They have waited until it is out of warrenty and now tell me there is nothing they can do as they do not know where the water is coming from.

I have contacted Landrover UK who told me " you should have asked for a replacement car before it went out of warranty" can you believe that !!

It still leaks and I have no one to turn to.

I hope someone out there has an answer.

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mobile swimming pool

We have just bought a late 2003 Discovery TD5 and on driving the vehicle home I remarked to my husband that my shoe was wet. He removed the carpet from the front passenger side and was amazed to find it swimming in water. He thought at first that it was caused by the valeter not drying the carpets out properly. My husband dried th carpet out and thought that was the end of the matter but after a heavy rainfall the problem was back again. It is at present back with the garage, in the hope that they can solve the problem. Doesn't seem like that is going to happen after reading your comments. Maybe we should ask for our money back

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I hope you have more luck than I had! I still have the car and it still leaks, please let me know if they fix it and I may use the same dealership.

wet interior

It's the front window that leaks. Mine leaked across the top directly dripping water into the two footwells. Get the window resealed.

Swimming Pool

Hi All, I'm giving u a shout from South Africa. I have a D3 TDV6 HSE. Had the same swiming pool issue including water "pouring" out of the center light. After much frustration with Land Rover I did some hunting and discovered there are drains that lead from the sunroof well which were blocked. This causes the water to flood int the roof lining then flood down to the foot wells via the A pillars. A good blast of compressed air sorted the problem out for me. If you have a sun roof this could be your problem. Hope it works for you

MOBILE SWIMMING POOL !!

Hi after reading your comments on her about your disco's leaking im relieved to hear im not the only one!! I bought my disco last november and its been nothing but a pain in the rear, just recently it's turned into a blinking swimming pool, when we have heavy rain the roof lining is full of water and the floor especially the drivers side is soaking, last week my partner siliconed the sunroofs in hope that would help..... em no did it hell, we had 2 days of heavy rain and low and behold went into the car and its was saturated!!! Today again he smothered it in silicone in the hope this will work but to be honest i can't see it as its just been one thing after another, if anyone has an answer to sort the problem i'd be grateful for the help because not only will i be glad the water stops coming in but i'll be able to get rid of the stinking wet carpets.

Mobile swimming pool

Hi, I have had the same problem with my Disco 2 without sunroofs. My father with sunroof. With sun roof there is a drain pipe that runs down the A pillar to carry away water from around the sunroof opening which gets blocked. If blocked the water tends to gather in the foor wells. The pipe needs locating and blowing through to ensure it is patent. Secondly, mine without sunroofs did the same and I found that the aircon drain pipe was blocked, thus condensation builds up and dose not drain. This results in the recepticle overflowing and venting the water into the car. A hot day with aircon on full chat will flood the footwells on a long run. Drain pipe is locate underneath the car directly below and just forward of the centre consule on the left or right of the gearbox. Feed wire up to unblock (do when cool as water is boiling) and then pop a self tapper in the end to keep open. If you have had the aircon on and when you stop there is no drainage under the car this is most probably your problem

Mobile Swimming Pool

Like may MY04 Disco II owners, I too had a mobile pool, which LR tried to fix for 3 years, until they found that the windscreen/s all had been poorly fitted and thus causing the leaks. Since the w/screen has been properly fitted, NO POOL.

Landrover Discovery TD5 Swimming Pools

I bought a Discovery TD5 in new 2003. After 3 years I noticed some water spots around the interior front light. Within 2 years this had turned into a deluge every time it rained. The problem is common to Series 2 Discoveries I later found out. The mastic seal around the sunroof deteriorates and lets in water. Another issue is the plastic drain hopper on the sunroof, there are 2 on each roof. These collect the water when it rains and direct it in rubber tubes down the A & B posts. Landrover have known about this problem since the 1990's and do not do anything to fix it. The cost to fix each sunroof is £850 and Landrover don't want to pick up the invoice. They publish an internal memo and fix for this problem, providing the customer is paying. I have 2 sunroofs so the bill would be £1700. No way Hose. I bought 2 tubes of black mastic and sealed both sunroofs closed - forever. Stuff Landrover, I have had Range Rovers, Discoveries and Defenders since the 1970's but enough is enough. I have an old Pajero and I will get a new Pajero to replace it. The Discovery will be sold as is. I believe the best cars are German I'm sad to say, but Mitsubishi are very good.

LR swimming pool

Had same problem on my Discovery3. Propabably drains are blocked (in the front), easy fix. Have a look on the internet how to take of the drains and blow them clean. Took me 35 minutes to fix this problem, cost 0. All been good since.

water leak

hi in regards to the water leak on discovery 2 has it got roof bars fitted? the sunroof drain tubes sometimes block or become detatched from sunroof

swimming pool

I have a 2000 discovery hse and since I got it I have had a flood of water come in every time it rains . have unblocked tubes, new seals on sun roofs . put mastic on small side windows in roof all seeming to solve the problem for around 8 months then back again..........

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