Fixed Water Leaking in Footwell - Land Rover Discovery

#Landrover #LandroverDiscovery #LR3
In this episode we finally fix a water leak on Joachims Land Rover Discovery 3. We used the LR repair kit according to their service bulletin.
We are not liable for any harm you do to your car, your engine, your surroundings or yourself. Use the information given in this video at your own risk.
Thanks for watching,
Vera & Christian
LR repair kit including NASA tape
DHB500400
Service Bulletin A-Pillar Water Leak
LA501-006A
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[@charlieodonnell9129]

Good morning happy Christmas to you both and to all your followers 👍👍👍👍🎅🎅🎅🎅

[@eddieMurphy11111]

on the windscreen there should be a small cross where the wipers go have a look near the end of the wiper blade on the screen thanks for the video

[@garethb405]

Aaaaargh, THAT's where the water is coming from!!! I did the sunroof drain fix and boom, first rain it was soaked again. Thanks Christian and Vera!!

[@Vera_and_Christian]

🙈😅That sucks of course. 🙋‍♀️Vera

[@ajuber876]

Since I've become a Land Rover in owner October 2022, your channel has brought me lots of great laughs and teachable moments. Keep up the good work.

[@graemevass745]

Quick tip to everyone from me.... Check the condition of your rear Anti roll bar mounting bolts before they become coroded . Copper grease the threads of new bolts and cover the new bolt heads with silicone bathroom sealant to protect them . Doing this will prevent a body lift in the future when you need to replace Rear ARB bushes like i had to . Great video Christian and Vera, merry Christmas to you all 🎄🎁

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Oh you will enjoy our next video. 😅👍Merry Christmas🙋‍♀️Vera

[@philadams92]

Did mine in a typical off road fix, lifted the cover used silicone and gorilla tape over the hole, no problem since, free fix had the silicon and tape in my workshop 10 minutes lol great video as always. Happy Christmas to you all and all the best for your family and channel in 2023, Phil and Louise

[@SirCricket]

These Bozo's at Rover can't find their ass with a dozen hands!

[@appledore92]

Learning the little tips that you offer with ‘tongue-in-cheek’ sarcasm. Your command of English is entertaining and instructional 😊

[@markbielawski]

Nice to see that this was actually an easy and inexpensive fix for what could potentially turn in to an expensive problem. Cheers!

[@lobby1529]

amazing! Can't wait to see what happened at the TUV inspection and an update from Fabians engine would be great!

[@Vera_and_Christian]

We always have spare bulbs when we head to the TÜV. So, bummer, but that was not the case Andy. 😅🙋‍♀️

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Fabians engine is running just fine. No need for an update. He is putting a ton of kms on it. 👍💪🙋‍♀️Vera

[@lobby1529]

@@Vera_and_Christian that's great! I wouldn't expect anything different. Knock on wood!

[@alexshapley8331]

An excellent (and excellently amusing) Sunday video as always. Joachim has a great sense of humour as well (but hopefully no more leaks). The black-smithing is very impressive too. And of course... "Off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush..." (not sure if you are familiar with this phrase). Happy Holidays to you all!

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Thanks. Happy holidays. Christian

[@gideonding01]

great craftsmen and woman in the family... love the vid. esp. using the normal flour- very creative.

[@leejordanful]

It's always nice to see Joachim entrust his car to you for a repair. Have a great Christmas with your family.

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Normally, we can't work on other Land Rovers, we just don't have the time. But that was a special case of search and rescue, and with freezing temperatures, we really want his car to start up, so he can go out and save some lifes.👍😀🙋‍♀️

[@Appalachian4WD]

Calling out Land Rover on their bull again 👍🏻. Enjoying the extras at the end of the videos. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@urszemp4539]

Entertainment at its best, really enjoy your videos every weekend. All the best and merry christmas.

[@fivedotsdave9723]

This video reminded me of too many years ago when I was training as a mechanic in the early '80s, with a business that repaired and maintained Land Rovers fitted with petrol V8 engines. A new 110 had been driven on a very wet day and the water had poured in through all of the floor panels, they had not been sealed properly when it was built, back then it was typical British engineering....

[@islandhopperstuart]

Great video, and loved the extra blacksmithing footage!

[@andicog]

Great video as usual, I'm sure the Columbian marching powder was a genuine LR accessory in the UK, it came as a package with 20" wheels and dark tinted windows.... 👍

[@tirabbi1]

Great video as usual, especially enjoyed the 2 little clips at the end. 👍🏼

[@lauraduffy9055]

Thank you, Christian, for translating the English instructions into understandable English instructions. ;-)

[@bertvanderzee2870]

Es ist sehr schön, einen echten Schmied bei der Arbeit zu sehen. Danke dafür😊

[@jstokvis]

Excellent as usual

[@dcasteaux9181]

I find your channel very interesting. And I love your humour too 😀 It also makes me appreciate my 13 year old Skoda Fabia with 155,000 miles that has only needed routine servicing, a battery and an exhaust.

[@Vera_and_Christian]

We wanted to get a Fabia for our son, instead of the Mercedes, but this car was still too expensive.👍🙋‍♀️Vera

[@mdshovel]

Quality 🙂 Next Sunday is Christmas ... so have a great Christmas Christian, Vera and family. Thankyou for all the information and humour 🎅

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😀🙏🎄Merry Christmas🙋‍♀️Vera

[@desmcdermott6090]

Great work as per usual. Merry Xmas Christian, Vera and all the You Tube followers.

[@michaelwall2954]

Always look forward to Sunday morning for my Christian lecture on life as a land rover owner… Great content guys, keep up the good work. Merry Christmas

[@tuopeeks]

There is another classic designed-in leak in that area where the window seal unloads with age and water then drip into the cabin air intake through the blower onto the foot well carpets. Might be more a RHD vehicle issue but may be not. It just takes a little bit of plastic sheet to extend the water run beyond the air intake to fix. I do enjoy your videos and I liked my Discovery III, but rust was ever increasing the work load. I spend hours routing new auto-box oil cooling pipes after they rusted through. Obviously must be another body-off job in the manual. 🙂

[@nogoogltalk]

I can assure you it is also a LHD problem ;-)

[@Chickenboots1]

We sold our discovery when our new defender arrived, I still love watching these videos though 👍

[@ccconlan2670]

ITS LR TIME🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄🎅🎅

[@nickforsythandkids]

I had this on my 2005 sport. I did the A pillar, the sun roof drains and also the air con drain. It’s been fine since but the sunroof drain was the main issue for mine.

[@ThatCivilGuy]

My LR3 had two of those locators on each a pillar, one at the bottom and one at the top. I removed and taped over both. Also, you should consider doing the intake air/cowl water leak repair. The black plastic cowl cover will warp with age and allow water to pour into the cabin after it soaks the cabin air filter. It’s another simple preventive fix with tape and some plastic shielding.

[@nogoogltalk]

Yeah, and it could have been done with this job, as it requests the same parts removed ;-). FYI: you can see this flaw of LR at 8:08 in the top right corner of the video. BTW if you miss this fix, it does not only soak the airfilter but also damages the blowermotor, Been there done that ;-)

[@lobby1529]

is there any info of this repair somewhere? tia

[@nogoogltalk]

@@lobby1529 there is a youtube video, but dont ask me where and when. But it is easy to do. Just follow this video until you get to minute 08:08. There you see the inlet of the air in the top rught corner. When opened up you will immediatel understand the problem, as soon as you put some water over your windshield. To fix you just have to mount a lip beneath the windshield, so water drops beside this opening. I used self adhesive bituminal sheets, as it is stable under typical road condition and it was lying around in my garage. So it is as easy to repair as in this video and needs to follow the same steps of disassemling and assembling the wipers, the A-pillar covers and the windshield cover.

[@SirCricket]

Easy fix. Leave the car in the garage!

[@andymercer8092]

It is shocking how Landrover carry on! Good job we have you guys!

[@raycollington4310]

The blacksmith shop work at the end of the video was very impressive and reminded me of the Land Rover R&D department.

[@Martin-u5q]

Vera and Christian, this was twice pleasure, see you working and see Tubaias (I hope I did not misspell) working.

[@Vera_and_Christian]

It was Joachim.😅👍🙋‍♀️

[@grahamwest1079]

Should think the flour and water mixture will make a stronger bond than NASSA tape if my kids past projects is any thing to go by.

[@lynchie968]

Same problem with my RRS l320 2010. Thanks for your video, so much hassle with random faults for 3 years! Hopefully this is my fix 🤞

[@LorenzoCase]

Hahaha that was a brilliant quick fix that will definitely save a few issues…

[@mikego18753]

Thumbs up.I enjoyed the last bit(special) Thanks.

[@davidlundrigan1435]

I had this issue on my previous D3. It actually stopped all the central locking from working so I couldn’t open the car. Water had sat inside the the inner door sill and got into the wiring harness. Luckily the Facebook group had information on it. There is a green wire spliced under the plastic door sill trim that corrodes with the water leak, mine was full of water.

[@mjennings4094]

You two are great 👍 Did my sunroof How works out ,window pillar had two clips missing, water log in passenger side. Bugha getting the water out Hopefully this week 🙏 all good But thank you for your video I was lost were the water was coming from Love my discovery 3 Thank you Keep up your great work You are a blessing 🙏

[@SirCricket]

Don't have to be an engineer from MIT to design a simple drain tube!

[@keithtaylor1783]

Another very interesting video, Thank you Christian and Vera, I did buy a new Land Rover series lll in 1978 it was a petrol 6 cyn LWB and the price $6,800 AUD, after a few years I did an engine change over and went for a GMH 161 Cubic Inch 6 cylinder. Keep up your very interesting videos all the best wishes from Australia

[@jeffreywilkinson2679]

Merry Christmas Vera & Christian, A wonderful video as usual. Nice diagnosis. You must be very proud of Robin’s craftsmanship! Thank you for sharing. Love and best wishes.

[@davidbramley6730]

Hi Christian and Vera. Happy Christmas you 2 . Look forward to new year tutorials. Dave UK.

[@rainerfabian7926]

The way to find the cause and the way to solve this problem is always very impressive.

[@Shanes_Shed]

Merry Christmas guys. Thanks for all your videos throughout the year.

[@stevebarker669]

eBay repair kit for A-pillar, £11.25. I'm pretty sure they aren't LR OEM, but think about it,...LR don't make plastic clips they are supplied by 3rd party manufacturer. The benefit of purchasing an OEM kit, it will be sent in a plastic bag worth £10+, so they will have included a carbon offset value to it, so rest assured the bag is good. !! Keep it up guys, great content.

[@marcuswilson9381]

Another great video, love the attention to detail

[@tynesidesteelerectors994]

Merry Christmas and good health for next year. Great video, nice to see some blacksmith work. 🇨🇦🇬🇧

[@amazoniaamazonia7225]

Thanks guys for another useful and educational video. Merry Christmas.

[@TheDaf95xf]

Evening Vera & Christian. It’s always a pleasure watching you two work on LR 😊 It be Christmas 🎄 next week. So in case there’s no video I wish you both and all of your family a very happy Christmas and all the very best for 2023. X for Vera cheers Stevie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Merry Christmas to you too. 🎄😀🙋‍♀️Vera

[@tiagomanuelfranca]

You gave me a great idea to find my water leak at my Renault Laguna 2!! 👍🏼

[@Vera_and_Christian]

That's great. 👍💪Hope you find it. 🙋‍♀️Vera

[@davidclark3563]

Merry Christmas to you all I’ve just loved watching your videos through the year 👍🧢🇬🇧

[@terrysully5240]

Thanks

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Thank you very much and enjoy the holidays 🎄. Vera and Christian

[@freespeech2261]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

[@jebw]

Red Australian dust is so much better at finding holes. You should import red dust from Australia.

[@eoghanfla6343]

Were you guys in my shed last week in Ireland, how did you know I had this exact problem?! I bought a similar hot glue gun in Lidl years ago and it has fixed headlights in a legacy GT, door cards in the disco and many many other jobs. One of the cheapest and best tools in my garage.

[@MrThommo78]

I had a leak recently. Turned out to be the scuttle panel under the windscreen. Been dry ever since. Good luck from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jagadishraob1332]

Merry Christmas Vera and christen , nice job once again

[@nickb5391]

Another great video, i wish you both & all the Germans a very happy Christmas from Great Britain (the home of the Land Rover!)

[@ThomasFromHome]

Great stuff as always👍. And in keeping with the Christmas season🎄, happy jingle bell at the end.🔔

[@stuartbroadhurst7523]

I had to repair mine as I think the previous owner had a bust windscreen, the folk who repaired did the fatal thing and obviously pulled the A pillar seal and broke the Clips. I did a quick fix by inserting household rawl plugs as the spares I had were wrong size. Works fine but I must remember to do proper repair soon. I used a little silicon sealant to be double sure. My repair was only a few pennies.

[@bobrose7900]

Now, when you point the Land Rover uphill water runs downhill, and when you point the Land Rover downhill does the water run uphill? 15th law of physics! Love these videos... but Vera should take full control, OMG, and Christian how could you use her mountain bike for spares when she was pregnant... I laughed so much! The banter is worthy of the London Palladium... Brilliant!

[@klsgunner9664]

Robin that is bad ass!

[@snorris89]

Another entertaining watch. Has reminded me I need new A Pillar covers (mine are cracked and have been abused by windscreen repair guys) plus I need to look at my scuttle panel as it is warping. Not so much rain here in WA at the moment though so we get away with a few leaks here and there.

[@thesanctuary225]

He is really a handy man!

[@zech007]

I’ve been chasing down a leak into the driver (left side) foot well, I check the sun roof drain and it wasn’t it and was still having leaks, thank you bring this up I did all the checks like you did and there’s my leak! Thanks, keep up the good work!!

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😅💪🙋‍♀️Vera

[@tomcobbly8672]

Is it normal flour or self raising flour that is required? 🙂

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Only the good stuff. 😅🙋‍♀️

[@blairguinea6811]

The very best you tube channel, thank you for your style guys

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😊🙏🙋‍♀️Vera

[@Drmcclung]

"Thanks for not saying 'Ausnahmegenehmigung' in German" is what my nephew said while I was watching this video on my TV in the background 🤣🤣🤣

[@zackdaniels6858]

Love you guys, and your channel! Cheers~ Zack Daniels.

[@discoveryadventures2296]

Another great video and very informative.

[@gazzafloss]

All the best for Christmas 2022 Christian, Vera and family. Happy Christmas from Toyota country, Northern Australia.

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😀🙏I can't imagine celebrating Christmas in the summer time. Merry Christmas to you too. 🎄🙋‍♀️Vera

[@johnwillett4086]

A great and interesting video, as always - thanks. I do like Joachim's snorkel, there is an identical (non LR OEM) one available. I like this design as the fixings are invisible and it's not so ugly at the top. I loved the bit about "too many words" - there are actually more words in the English language than German and French put together! Have a wonderful Christmas and I will wave as I drive back up the A3 in January as I return to the UK from Christmas in Slovakia (and pray that we don't get as many "stau" as we did coming out).

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Oh the A3 is a pain. I just avoided this Autobahn under any circumstance on my cross Germany trip this weekend. Have a save drive and Merry Christmas to you too. 🎄😀🙋‍♀️Vera

[@johnwillett4086]

@@Vera_and_Christian Thanks Vera - not a lot of choice when you come into Germany at Aachen and leave at Passau. We did see a lot of lorries parked on the hard shoulder on the way over - I assume that they ran out of hours stuck in "stau" (the most horrible word I hear in the German language) and then had to stop on the shoulder as they were not allowed to drive any more. ??

[@anthonyhull-zc9hz]

Haha quality video very informative but nice and light hearted 😬💪🏼

[@mbak7801]

Joachim is stopped by customs (Bundeszollverwaltung) in a random check (as happened to me in the past, I was stopped 10km after crossing the German/Swiss border). "Yes officer that white powder is what I use to check for water leaks in the A pillar". "No officer it is definitely not cocaine". "Why are you putting on those rubber gloves?"

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😅👍🙋‍♀️Vera

[@meraioan]

love the videos, have a great Christmas with your family.

[@dazman1111]

Love the brilliant videos (so informative) and the sense of humour is wonderful. Long may it continue … 👍🏻

[@rover0ne576]

Great content as always! Had to do the same on my LR3 recently in the hopes it would alleviate water accumulating in the footwell. Turns out it was actually the AC Condenser drain port in mine that was clogged and causing the water accumulation on the NAS spec passenger side. Blew out the drain valve and have not had an issue since 👍

[@jshoe1986]

Good morning Christian and Vera happy Christmas to you both 🎄❤️

[@1699bridgetown]

Another great video from the LR team. Crazy that LR put the hole in there in the first place! Liked the ending, was a nice touch to see the guys at work in the smithy! Looking forward to your Christmas special. Have a Merry one! 🎄🎄

[@vincentcorreia5714]

Ahh…. A common mistake is to assume that it is the intake cowl. Check the sunroof drains where they exit through the body. This is often misdiagnosed and could mean a number of attempts to sort it out. This is behind the fuse box on RHD models. Great video

[@Vera_and_Christian]

As we said in the video that the sunroof drain is an entirely different problem. And this Discovery does not have a sunroof. 🙋‍♀️

[@vincentcorreia5714]

You are correct. The comment was aimed at the comment readers so that they did not have to get onto a forum and ask where the leak could also be. Rest assured that I watch every video and love the content

[@TantersD3]

Bolivian marching powder has a new use! They’ll start charging more for it now 😂 Priceless 😂 Merry Christmas to you and your family & everyone who comes to your house for repairs😅

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😅👍Merry Christmas to you too. 🙋‍♀️Vera

[@alanadair2367]

Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and your family great video as usual 👍

[@masikadanielMD]

I pity the Toyota guys. Well Done Christrian

[@deniscudahy4549]

Merry Christmas to you and all the best for 2023🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Is Christian getting more sarcastic the closer we get to Christmas?

[@Vera_and_Christian]

No, I can't say that he does. He is just his normal self, having fun with our videos. 😅👍🙋‍♀️Vera

[@bobevansIW]

Another great repair guys 👍 Often wondered what was beneath the scuttle panel, I've heard that they can leak and cause problems with the wiper motor? Anyway, next Sunday being Christmas Day, I'll wish you both and your family a Merry one and also a Happy and Healthy New Year. Take care

[@simon-mouse8739]

Another quick fix. You need a nice piece of 'speed' tape which we used to use to fix many things on military aircraft. Not as expensive as space tape 🤣🤣👍Merry Christmas 🎄

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😅👍We still needed the clips, so no harm done. And we actually did not expect it to be the tape. We thought that the clips were the problem. But now you guys know, and if you can get the clips off without breaking, you'll have a cheap fix. 😅🙋‍♀️

[@dougwernham5209]

Thanks for the video.

[@nippy1980]

Great video as ever guys have a Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year. It's also obvious who the true brains of the team is! 😉

[@Vera_and_Christian]

😅🙏🙋‍♀️Vera

[@Poppageno]

If Joachim had an old Series Rover, you just leave the floor panels loose and the water drains out. I can't believe Rover puts plastic in so many places and then charges more than Toyota for the vehicle. Happy Festivus!

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Have you looked at What Cruiser prices these days? 😅🙋‍♀️

[@handycrowd]

Love the flour tip, brilliant!

[@robintaylor6159]

Happy Christmas 🎅

[@hedydd2]

The bonus blacksmith chapter was even more interesting than you taking the leak.

[@davelock3166]

Great video!

[@bigdavesdiscovery3world414]

Great vid as always the terrible twosome 😂! Love your videos have a great 4th Advent....❤

[@Vera_and_Christian]

🙏Thank you, Merry Christmas to you. 🎄😀🙋‍♀️Vera

[@okaaki68]

Great video guys. Thanx

[@BostjanMulec]

Last week I bought a 2014 D4 115,000 km. Where to get the easiest workshop manualls. Happy holidays

[@Vera_and_Christian]

Disco3.co.uk website Check it out, you'll find all information you need there with a little bit of searching🙋‍♀️Vera

[@mauritztoivonen1070]

Thank you.

[@drforbin801]

The "NASA sticker story" is hilarious. I sent this video to people who just bought Land Rovers. The didn't understand, ... yet.

[@index1489]

There is a upper locator pin and hole that also commonly breaks off, this was not sealed? I put 3m foam tape on mine when I removed and replaced the sealing clips.

[@Vera_and_Christian]

There was no upper locator pin on ours. 🙋‍♀️Vera