Water Leak From Door Speaker 97 400 ?

[moriwaki]

Hope you lads can help me again...water is entering cabin from behind the little speaker [ tweeter} in the upper corner of the front doors and running down the door card....only just started ....could it be a blocked drain on sun roof ?...also water is pooling behind petrol cap flap...any ideas ?...Thanks in advance fellas !...Still the best car ever...and cheaper road tax than my girlfriends Rav 4

[ROYT]

I would go for cleaning all drain holes on the car including the roof and just check around the door seal to be sure

[wacko]

Hi

Had a similar prob on my 98 mark IV, the prob wasn't the door mirror but the window seal on the door. this was letting water through on to the plastic door surround which then run down the trim to exit from the tweeter. the interior trim needs removing to access the seal securing bolts. once these have been removed the seal can be removed. it apears that a non setting mastic was used at the factory. once this was cleaned off and replaced everything was fine. watch the securing clips for the interior trim they break easy.

[kroebje]

Had a similar prob on my 98 mark IV, the prob wasn't the door mirror but the window seal on the door [where exactly??]. this was letting water through on to the plastic door surround which then run down the trim to exit from the tweeter. the interior trim needs removing to access the seal securing bolts. once these have been removed the seal can be removed. it apears that a non setting mastic was used at the factory. once this was cleaned off and replaced everything was fine. watch the securing clips for the interior trim they break easy.

Hello there - yes, this (click) leads to the German site where I am just describing how to solve the problem. Or rather: How to find where the water gets in in the first place. I just know where it finanlly surfaces, at the bottom of the tweeter.

If that "wacko" fellow is still around, would you please describe in detail / or in other words where exactly the water got into your car? I tried with a garden hose for an hour in various places - and everything remained as dry as German Riesling.

Thanks a ton for helping. kroebje

[wacko]

Had a similar prob on my 98 mark IV, the prob wasn't the door mirror but the window seal on the door [where exactly??]. this was letting water through on to the plastic door surround which then run down the trim to exit from the tweeter. the interior trim needs removing to access the seal securing bolts. once these have been removed the seal can be removed. it apears that a non setting mastic was used at the factory. once this was cleaned off and replaced everything was fine. watch the securing clips for the interior trim they break easy.

Hello there - yes, this (click) leads to the German site where I am just describing how to solve the problem. Or rather: How to find where the water gets in in the first place. I just know where it finanlly surfaces, at the bottom of the tweeter.

If that "wacko" fellow is still around, would you please describe in detail / or in other words where exactly the water got into your car? I tried with a garden hose for an hour in various places - and everything remained as dry as German Riesling.

Thanks a ton for helping. kroebje

Hi

If you follow the link below it should take you to the toyodiy website and a diagram of the front door on an LS 400.

toyodiy

What you need to do is remove the tweeter grill (part 67688B) and the plastic trim (part 67663) on the inside of the door.

Be careful of the plastic clips that hold on the trim they break easy.

Once the internal plastic trim has been removed you will see a number of small nuts which hold the metal trim strip (part 67491B) on the outside of the door in place.

remove the nuts and carefuly remove the metal trim strip.

The strip is sealed to the door using a black mastic strip, over the years this has gone hard and lets the water through.

The water runs down the strip and through the lower bolt hole into the car and then drips from the tweeter.

i used a bitumastic sealant to seal the trim to the door.

When the nuts are tightened excess sealant is squezed out of the join and can be wiped away.

I did this repair a month after buying the car, four years later it's still dry inside.

I hope this is of some help.

Wacko