Seal leak in carwash

2000runr

2000runr

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This morning I went to the same carwash I go to weekly, a fairly high end touchless wash. They use hi pressure waterjets, and then they dry it by hand. Front passenger side, and 2 rear windows in the cargo area both had leaks. Is it possible that the dramatic drop in temp to cold weather here caused the leak? I findi it hard to believe all these seals went bad in 1 week...
 
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2000runr said:
This morning I went to the same carwash I go to weekly, a fairly high end touchless wash. They use hi pressure waterjets, and then they dry it by hand. Front passenger side, and 2 rear windows in the cargo area both had leaks. Is it possible that the dramatic drop in temp to cold weather here caused the leak? I findi it hard to believe all these seals went bad in 1 week...
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I suppose some kind of temperature related thermal expansion is possible. Could just be older seals as well or they could be cracked. I would check the condition of the seals.

Its also be massive amounts of high pressure water. We have a car wash just like this that I go to frequently. I have noticed a few drops creeping through on occasion on multiple cars including my dad's Lexus RX350. They are using some pretty strong jets to wash the car so some water leakage is inevitable. As long as its not a great deal of water and not leaking during normal use I would not worry about it. Its likely it could leak worse when the seals are replaced. Some reason shops can't do as good of a job as the factory can.
 
Thats kind of what I figured. In the monsoon of last week there were zero leaks, just the massive pressure of the car wash jets did it.
 
one time i went through a carwash with the defender everything closed and when the jets came over the sunroof i got soaked (there were 6 passes left), i had to use my sweatshirt to keep the water off my phone ipod and and other electrical crap, my worst carwash expierence ever. Back to your question, replace the seals and make the window doesnt occasionally drop.
 
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Speaking of the seals, does anyone know of a good source to buy these from? More specifically the seals around the rear hatchback? Thanks.
 
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