Water in my doors

crisps · May 9, 2024

cremebrulee said:
The seal is most certainly failing, Maintenance at the Toyota dealer said it was and also said, it's doing it on rav 4's and other models as well. this is not something normal. And it is most certainly a safety issue with MOLD and the car door rusting out....

water gets inside cars doors from rain. period. all cars.
some more than others but they all get wet inside the door clamshell
manufacturers know this and design accordingly.

doors are designed to handle this. painted, some parts coated with waxy crud, and have
plastic sheets to direct water away from the door components and let it drain lower holes

the only defect in rav4 that is common, is blocked drain holes on the lower gasket. this has
a TSB to remedy
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PRR · May 9, 2024

My 2023 wee-wees on the doorsill when copilot opens her door. We just parked the other way to see if it is the door or the slant on the parking spot.

All doors get wet inside. They should have drains. The drains should drip free at any reasonable slant.

As far as I can tell the weatherstripping on the RAV4 is a joke. Wind and wind noise and road noise comes right in.

We still have a 1996 Odyssey minivan. With a sun/moon roof we hardly use. I put my parents in the back (normally dogs-only). Pulled a hard turn out of the driveway and my father started squealing. Turned out the roof drain was clogged to the point that water would slosh over the scuppers around the sunroof. You do have to maintain drains.

FKHeath · May 10, 2024

cremebrulee said:
The seal is most certainly failing, Maintenance at the Toyota dealer said it was and also said, it's doing it on rav 4's and other models as well. this is not something normal.

Picture of your "failed" seal please. Please look at the pictures on post #66 of this tread to see what an "unfailed" seal looks like and the notch that needs to be cut to fix the problem -- per the NHTSA registered T-SB: https://www.rav4world.com/threads/u...-from-inside-one-or-more-door-panels.316934/page-4?post_id=3086510#post-3086510. I.e. the NHTSA has already been notified of this problem years ago; so far, they have not deemed it necessary to force a recall.

Edit: here is the link for the T-SB. Notice it has a NHTSA web address: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10210362-9999.pdf

cremebrulee · May 10, 2024

FKHeath said:
Picture of your "failed" seal please. Please look at the pictures on post #66 of this tread to see what an "unfailed" seal looks like and the notch that needs to be cut to fix the problem -- per the NHTSA registered T-SB: https://www.rav4world.com/threads/u...-from-inside-one-or-more-door-panels.316934/page-4?post_id=3086510#post-3086510. I.e. the NHTSA has already been notified of this problem years ago; so far, they have not deemed it necessary to force a recall.

Edit: here is the link for the T-SB. Notice it has a NHTSA web address: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10210362-9999.pdf

Huh, well, I'm repeating what they were telling me at the dealer???? Go figure....Thank you so much, I'm going to tell them about this at the dealer....actually I'm going to take this with me. Thank you

Zefer · May 10, 2024

I get the drain deal that's not my initial concern. I keep a really clean car and clean streak free glass is a
"Pet Peeve " of mine...after it's all clean n dry and I lower then raise any of the 4 windows I have wet....very wet glass. I know it's kinda nit picking and along with other "questionable "
Engineering "head scratchers " like no lights in the door switches no
Overhead lighting...controls that cannot be seen like steering wheel heat...auto lights and wipers....and oh yeah...like I really need ambient light by my feet or parcel shelf...all oversights that in the real world can make a difference in the long run. I love my Rav and having said that I'd like some of the powers that be @ Toyota to live with mine.

Water in my doors

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