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#1 minipixie

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 09:17 PM

K, I've just taken my door cards out and they had the odd patches of damp, which I just put down to a lot of rain recently, however, the rear drivers side door card was a b***h to get out, trapped my finger and made it bleed :dontgetit:, but it was very very damp and had some mold on it! See Pictures....

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Quite manky!!

Anyway I was wondering if any knew where my mini is leaking from? She's going into the garage next weel for some work anyway, but I want to ask him to have a look at it, just wondered if you'd know where it was form?

Cheers, Sian

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 09:21 PM

My doors leak with new seals, ive given up finding the cause, they could be leaking through the seals around the rear windows, the rivets holding the rear arches on or a hole near the window rubber.

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 11:50 PM

They look like the rear doorcards, from the shape. Is the floor still good under the bit of card in the little companion boxes by the back seats? Otherwise, look around the window at the rubber seals. Are they opening at the rear?

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 11:57 PM

Are they really polkadot door cards :dontgetit:

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 11:59 PM

Now I was avoiding mentioning the, errrr, "unique" colourscheme of Minipixies car :fear:

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Posted 23 August 2005 - 07:17 AM

this is an easy one....


its comming through your rear side windows, and it runs down onto your door cards, then the get all nasty like that! have you got opening rear windows or are they the fixed type that you cant open? i sugest you change the seals how ever, or close the windows when it rains :tongue:

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Posted 23 August 2005 - 08:03 AM

there is also a bit of corrosion along the seam of the lower rear panel and the sill - with a couple of pinholes, so I don't think thats helping.

I'm converting minipixie's car to opening rear windows soon, the non opening rears are leaking a bit too, with new seals it should solve the problems.

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Posted 23 August 2005 - 08:41 AM

this is an easy one....
close the windows when it rains 


now i bet pixie never thought of that :dontgetit:

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Posted 23 August 2005 - 05:38 PM

this is an easy one....
close the windows when it rains 


now i bet pixie never thought of that :dontgetit:

ur right i had neva thought of that :P because they're not rear opening windows :dontgetit: im not blonde miniman5! :cry: (nothing against blondes)

i like my "unique" colour scheme :P anyway the reaosn i took them out is so i could recover them anyways! :alien:

but cheers for ya commets, i still have no idea what it is but ill see if minis84 can explain, i need it in simple words ya see! lol! but yea, new seals would prob help! teehee

cheers!




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