Inertiaman
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After 2 months with virtually no rain in Seattle, we finally had some rain in the past couple weeks, some of it pretty heavy. Since my interior lower panels were removed for my work, I noticed some pretty significant water pooling in the bottom of the rocker panels. The water is obviously entering through the plastic trim connectors which hold the black trim that is all around the lower van body.
The 1/8" deep puddles in some spots of my rocker panels occurred without even driving. Just parked on level ground during a solid rain.
I did some searches but couldn't find any threads on this specific topic. Has anyone tried to reduce/eliminate this ingress? If so, how? Sealing the holes/connectors from the inside? Removing trim and doing something on the exterior?
The rocker panels have some pretty thick yellow overcoating and drain holes, so to some extent they are capable of handling water. But if I extrapolate to 10 years of repeated water ingress, I worry that it will lead to corrosion and/or fungus. Already there black tracks where the water trickles in, though its hard to tell if that is fungus or residue/sediment from trim material.
The 1/8" deep puddles in some spots of my rocker panels occurred without even driving. Just parked on level ground during a solid rain.
I did some searches but couldn't find any threads on this specific topic. Has anyone tried to reduce/eliminate this ingress? If so, how? Sealing the holes/connectors from the inside? Removing trim and doing something on the exterior?
The rocker panels have some pretty thick yellow overcoating and drain holes, so to some extent they are capable of handling water. But if I extrapolate to 10 years of repeated water ingress, I worry that it will lead to corrosion and/or fungus. Already there black tracks where the water trickles in, though its hard to tell if that is fungus or residue/sediment from trim material.
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