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Check back door seals, clean leaves and dirt from around door, silicone spray on the door rubbers helps them to seal and remain pliable for many years.
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check that the water proof membrane under the door panels is intact and not missing. clean out the drain holes at the bottom of the doors next to where the outer skin folds around the inner section of the door.
`Your door has drain holes on the bottom. Poke a stick up them to make sure they're not plugged. I think you'd hear the water sloshing around if enough were to accumulate to drain into your floor. The membrane is a plastic water shield, glued to the door frame just behind the panel. It just provides a water-tight seal for the electrical switches and connectors in back of the door panel, and to prevent door panel from rotting or getting mold. Water and moisture get into the inside of door from rain on outside of glass. Should drain out the bottom. The membrane just protects back side of door panel and the electrical stuff. Hope you find where it comes from.
Check your trunk drainage holes for debris and check your door gaskets. If it is the drains, the water can back up and creep through the back. If it is the gaskets it could be coming right under the door and onto the floor.
I recently purchased a 2008 BT50 dual cab then 2 days later we had 500mm of rain and of course it leaked :( I had about 80mm of water on the drivers side floor and 30mm on the passenger side floor. I stripped the interior out of the car and started hosing the outside and watching where it was coming in. I took all the windscreen surrounds off and the cowl panel off below the screen there was no water coming in from that area. I had taken the gutter seals off but left the door seals on so the water was running down around the outside of the seals (with the door shut) and out at the bottom. From inside near the drivers side kick panel I could see water coming through seams in the metal work and when I took the door seal rubber off the body on the car I could see water was getting in at the top of the door seal rubber going down the front inside edge of the rubber and getting in through the seam where the rubber push's onto the body of the car (first problem). I took all the door seal rubbers off and run a bead of non corrosive silicon inside the cavity and pushed them back on. It seemed to have fixed the problem I dried the carpet and put it back together..Two weeks later we got another 325mm of rain and it leaked again :( not near as bad this time. Looking at the bottom of the door where the door trim meets the door I could see water coming from behind the trim and then into the car. I took the door trims off and could see water gets in when the window is up (all cars do) and is supposed to run out the drain holes in the bottom of the door but the water was dripping and splashing up to the back side of the door trim against the sheet of plastic that is supposed to seal against the door with the black mastic (it doesn't) and running straight into the car. I cut some plastic and siliconed them onto each opening on the inside of the door frame and then put the factory piece of plastic on as well (properley this time) as a backup. So far so good.
Water on the floor board in the back seat is usually caused by a leaking rear window, or leaking back glass...you will need to remove the inner rear door panels to confirm the exact leak...(as long as it is warm enough:) after removing the door panels...you can ask a friend to help...run water from a garden hose over the outside, and continue until you see the location of where the water is coming from...if the rubber seals on the top or bottom of the doors are bad...this certainly allows the rain (water) to come inside...Nice Car and worth fixing...:)
my old favourite trick in cold wet UK was to drill a hole in the floor so what gets in can run out ,most likely cause is a door seal somehow but even if you find the leak still drill the hole
This could be a coulple things. Try putting a piece of paper or dollar bill in top of doors either front or back where ever the water is coming in. Shut the door and the paper should not pull through. If does just open the door and put you window down, please your knee by inside handle of the door and pull the top in a little. Keep doing this little at a time until is tight. Also check the weatherstrips they may need replaced.
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