I cant see it solving the problem.
The issue is that VW have designed a rubbish window. The seal leaks unless it is absolutely spotlessly clean as well as needing the inside sealing edge of the glass to be spotless. These are difficult to clean as they are inaccessible and open to the elements, so you are fighting a losing battle trying to keep them clean. If they are contaminated with dust etc the water trickles in. Then the totally inadequate drainage slot and hole dont allow the water out.
Its a simple answer...they look good but are SH**.

 

Window replaced FOC under warranty. Side trim damaged when window was replaced, could be up to 3weeks before they get the Beach trim sent over from Germany.
FFS...!!!

:bhd

 

You can guess what my dealer said when I told them this was common problem: 'don't believe everything you read on this forum'
To mix my metaphors that old chestnut is as old as the hills!!!!LOL

 

Don't want to throw a spanner in the works but my slider has never leaked, how lucky am I.

Rob

Hope you're having a good time in France Rod!

 

Well after apparently having new sliders fitted, the new ones are now leaking too, so it's off to the dealership once again. I might also call VW direct and tell them what I think

 

Humming bird, were your fitted with the latest version? I am told they have been modified quite a lot.

Mine goes in on Thursday (23rd Oct) for one new window complete to be fitted, I'll let you know the outcome.

Rod

 

Something tells me, there is going to be a few more cases of leaky windows over the next few days...!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/

 

Mines booked in next Monday at Colbournes for this along with problems with drivers side electric window & passenger side sliding door that keeps telling me it's open when it's not !

 

Mine is a 56 plate and both leak and can't do with the pain of them leaking.
I don't like the look of the after market ones but the genuine ones are damaging my interior.


What I want is someone to say is replace with genuine windows they will be trouble free but we all know this won't be true

Someone tell me I'm wrong please

Craig

 

Sorry but your not wrong. Your best bet if you dont like the look of aftermarket sliders is to fit fixed windows. Do you actually open them that much?

 

No I don't really once in this really hot weather we have just had
I looked and the water just runs over the groove and straight down the interior panel

 

Are the drain holes clear? There are two in each window, one visible when the window is open and another that never gets exposed in the centre of the slide. They should allow the water to run outside past the bonding. Try pouring water down the visible hole and see if it runs outside, faulty windows allow it to run inside either in its entirety or partially. The nozzle from a bathroom sealant tube can be made into a funnel to pour water into the holes.

Rod

 

I am aware of the problem in the design / manufacture of the ones that leak and intend to have a close look at the revised version before they are fitted to my van.

I'll post my findings on here as soon as I have had chance to experience the new ones in situ.

As I said above one of mine is being changed on Thursday. They are only changing one as I will have to remove some of the fittings for the change of the other so I'm not doing that until I see the results of the first one!

Rod

 

my are leaking still 1 year and changed for the 3rd time i will keep going back to vw under warranty it is a total pain but if they cant get there design right it is not my problem

they also change my panels

it is going back in for the 4th time i am thinking of rejecting my van back to vw as a dud

 

Mark Danish Blue

What do you mean by replaing the panels, if you mean the body panels, that sounds a bit extreme?

 

Had mine done after market now not as nice as the genuine ones but they don't leak now.
It's a pain running back and forth to the dealer and I don't have the time.

If they do solve the problem I will have them changed.

Good luck to all you leakers

 

Hi the hard board lining panel as it bubbles when it get wet
I hope that helps

 

That's a relief, I thought I was about to get my van rebuilt!!

 

If you remove the lower trim cover, lever out and down carefully to get it off, you will see a flat cover over the bottom of the drain hole. That cover should channel the water out through a plastic moulding that passes between the glass and the outside of the bodywork bridging the window bonding and allowing the water to drain outside.

From what you say yours is just like mine were the two plastic pieces are not sealing together allowing the water to run inside instead of out. If the vehicle is still under warranty chase your Van Centre for replacements, there are revised versions of window available but the Van Centre may have to get part numbers from VW technical as the new ones may not yet be on ETKA.

Don't let them fob you off with just changing the moving slider it's the complete window that they have to change!

Rod

 

Hi All,

would anyone happen to have a link to where i could purchase a replacement trim which is highlighted in Red in quote above?

TIA

G

 

Mine is out of warranty.

If it is working where would you expect the water to show itself outside?

 

Almost in line with where the drain hole is inside runs out under the edge of the glass.

I guess with care and perseverance you can seal between the two plastic parts and fix the problem.

Rod

 

I will investigate more.

Do you know how to remove the sliding window?

 

OK - I have had my window out and removed the tray below the track ...

I can't see any way the water that goes through that hole in the front of the track can escape outside ... there seems no channel through which it can flow.

Here is the drain hole

here is the underside of the track removed.

here is the side of the van the area below the window.

I can't see any means by which water will flow through the hole in the top picture to the outside ...

 

Hi montello1984

Have a look at Rod vw post #7 earlier. It has a good picture of the piece of plastic that is meant to guide the water into the exit channel beneath the window. Yours maybe missing but it's difficult to see from your pics

 

I can understand why you cannot see how it drains outside as the moulding that carries the water is hidden from view unless you have a complete window out of the vehicle. However I'll explain...

1. Is I guess where you see water running inside the vehicle?

2. The flat piece that you can see is a cover below a channel in a plastic inverted 'L' shaped moulding that takes the water outwards and then down through the area where the window is bonded to the vehicle on the outside surface.

3. The lower leg of the 'L' is behind (or outside) the metal bodywork at this point.

The pressing that is visible here is nothing to do with the water drain, it is for fitting plastic mouldings around the windows on Caravelles and Multivans etc.

I hope that this helps.

Rod

 

Thanks I will look again. What is the best technique for clearing them?

Air line?

 

Right; Ive had another look ...

In my top photo above there is a drain hold.

If I remove the trim below then the drain hold goes nowhere ... if the bottom trim is removed shown in my second photo the water just goes in the hole & out the bottom into the van.

Are you saying when the bottom trim is in place the water collects in that and flows out?

 

Montello1984 I don't like to be pedantic but please go back and read what I explained. If you were see a new window out of the vehicle it would all become clear!

The water goes out via a moulding that you cannot see. The flat piece that you see should be pressed up to touch the part above and seal that way the water will pass outside.

Rod

 

Rod vw

I've noticed that your arrows look to be in the wrong place as I thought the plastic piece was directly underneath the drain hole in the slider channel at the end ( about 2 inches to the right)?

 

Rod vw
It sounds like montello1984 might be missing the plastic piece at location 2 in the pic? Could you post some more pics showing the plastic piece as I'm also keen to know how this works?