Gareth
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My car has never leaked in the past, but this lunchtime we left the car parked outside the shops, during a very heavy shower. When we returned and set off driving we were greeted with a heavy shower inside the car, coming out of the small led in the front seat roof light console.
I have just had a look at the sunroof, and dropped the headlining and found the the water to be coming over the front edge of the sunroof tray.
I found this by pouring a cup of water into the outside section of the sunroof tray with the roof open. If the car is facing uphill, the water drains away ok out of the rear drain tubes which run down the B pillar, the water escapes at the rear of the sill trim.
I then parked facing down the hill and repeated, the water came straight over the front edge of the tray and collected in the head lining.
Remove the A pillar inside trim (pull of the AIRBAG badge, and remove the torx screw), also remove the sunvisor by removing the small screw under the inside hinge behind the flap, 2 screws on the outside hinge/pivot, you have to carefully prise off the plasic cover to get to them, its quite hard to do without damaging it, but it looks cheap to replace if you do damage it.
Pull the door seal away from the top edge of the frame, and the A pillar, and remove the grab handle by undoing the phillips screws behind the small fold out flaps.
You can then pull down the headling to see the drain tube on the front corner of the sunroof. You can put your hand up the front edge of the headlining and then pull the pipe off the sunroof. You can then blow down it.
I could not blow down it, so connected up a bicycle pump and pumped air into it. Whatever was blocking it must have come out because water started coming out of rear of the front wheel arch. It was then easy to blow down the pipe. I reconnected the pipe and tried the cup of water test, and it then drained quickly away and came out of the bottom of the wheel arch. Both side were blocked.
Here is a picture of the drain tube attached to the sunroof.
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Pelyma
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Might be a good idea to make this a sticky now that more cars are out of warranty DS3 TDV6 HSE
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| Sun Jun 29 2008 4:11pm |
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SN
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what a bl**dy faff - good you got it sorted though 
Got told off by SWMBO during the same rainstorm earlier today. I'd just TSUNAMI'ed the oncoming traffic (which was creeping through 6 inches of water) in a road dip under a railway bridge near me  Steve N | 2006 TDV6 S Auto in Buckingham Blue | Member of the top ten club | Am I online?
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| Sun Jun 29 2008 4:13pm |
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Gareth
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Stickied and re-named. Its just stopped raining again, so I'm going to see if it has worked. Silver TDV6 HSE
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| Sun Jun 29 2008 4:17pm |
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Gareth
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Some more pictures.
Here is the very small drain hole in the tray, I've pointed the arrow at where to look, as it does not show on the photo. Its worth making sure its clear by sticking a pipe cleaner through it whilst the drain pipe is disconnected.
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This is where to pour the water. DO NOT POUR LOTS OF WATER IN!! the drains are not large and are not able to cope with a large amount of water at once, even when they are clear. Just dribble the water in.
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There are obviously front and rear drains. If the sunroof leaks when facing uphill, I would suspect it to leak around the B pillar area. Silver TDV6 HSE
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good on you Gareth all these explanations are getting very good the site should stare charging for them when some one looks them up  is it me your looking for.
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| Sun Jun 29 2008 5:35pm |
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Ken
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Funny I have been playing with the headlining today for the rear cam wish I read this thread first would have checked first Notice to Vultures are you bits ready for collection yet
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| Sun Jun 29 2008 6:46pm |
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ridgeback_moor
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Cheers Gareth - just managed to unblock the front left drain based on your instructions, and sorted out the badly fitted a-pillar airbag cover (after windscreen replacement) at the same time D3 TDV6 S 2005 - TorqTune, Privacy Glass, Remote FBH, 19" HSE Alloys, Boot liner, retrofit F&R PDC
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discocuzzy
Joined: 02 Feb 2008
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Your a star Gareth, mines just started to leak! "you cannot teach stupid people to do clever things"
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Gareth
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I can say that this fix has definitly worked, mine has been sat in lots of rain today, and is dry as a bone. Silver TDV6 HSE
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zaphod
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Me and Mrs Zaphod got a cold shower this morning after torrential rain overnight  Rain running down the inside of the windscreen, dripping from the map reading lights.
Will try this fix at the weekend................when it's stopped raining! Sail Fast - Live Slow...
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| Thu Jul 10 2008 7:40pm |
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SteveNorman
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Location: Somerset
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Land rover suggest removing wheel arch liners enough to get at the end of the drain tubes. The little valves are very small, it is suggested to trim them slightly to enlarge the hole, to stop them getting re-blocked.
The driver's side one which is visible when you remove the air intake grille, is usually blocked by the foam pad, & you can cut the foam away to help.
There is a TSB LA501-014
Regards
Steve
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