Outdoor QPV wet weather worries - any drains need clearing?

[Harvey_Tim]

Hi

My 2008 QPV lives outside permanently and all the recent torrential rain has worried me a bit. I know that some cars suffer badly from blocked drains which can lead to water ingress or other problems, but I am unsure if the QPV has any such issues?. I have tried searching and have found quite a bit re. sunroof drains but my car does not have a sunroof so thats ok, but I couldn’t find anything about any other drains (such as scuttle drains etc.) - can anyone advise if there are any such issues with the QPV?

Many thanks,
Tim

 

[conaero]

Hi Tim, they do

If you have a sunroof, you need to take off the front arch liners and remove the sieve end as it blocks, backs up then spill through the A pillars and fills the floor where the ecu sit.

Boot is the other one. Through the rear lights, boot seal, seems, fuel filler door…just about anywhere.

 

[Harvey_Tim]

Hi Conaero

Thanks for the quick reply. I do not have a sunroof, in which case other than the boot area (sounds like it has been well designed ) there are no other areas of concern then?

 

[conaero]

Not really no.

Levante leak through the rear door B pillar, floods the floor where there are about 7 ecu’s

 

[MarkMas]

... other than the boot area (sounds like it has been well designed ....

Spare tyre well in boot is quite often full of water in my experience (two QPV's). Lots of potential areas of ingress. Water then sloshes about, damaging the boot lining, and the parking brake actuator.

Some options to help with this include fitting a water alarm and/or drilling drain holes in the bottom of the tub.

 

[Alan Surrey]

Or going to the pound shop and getting one of those sachets they sell as wardrobe dehumidifiers.
I keep one in my boot at all times. It hangs nicely on the 12v power socket on the nearside boot wall and keeps out of the way.
Swap it when it gets full.
Of course, it won't really help if you have a real Noah type flood going on there. Sadly, Mark seems to have had a lot of that.

 

[MarkMas]

 

[mowlas]

Hi Tim, they do

If you have a sunroof, you need to take off the front arch liners and remove the sieve end as it blocks, backs up then spill through the A pillars and fills the floor where the ecu sit.

Boot is the other one. Through the rear lights, boot seal, seems, fuel filler door…just about anywhere.

For anyone with a sunroof on their QPV I would definitely recommend SportsItalia’s service to unblock or even do preventative maintenance.

I was tearing my hair out on how to stop flooding in the front passenger floor recess (garden wire didn’t work) and Matt/Conaero sorted this out. Been excellent since, in spite of the torrential rain we’ve experienced recently.

 

[Harvey_Tim]

Hi all, many thanks for all the replies.

I do not have a sunroof so no concerns there. The rain has been very heavy here recently but there was a bit of a break this afternoon so I checked the boot out, although it smelt a little damp I could not find any water ingress and the EPB area was bone dry - so I guess I am quite lucky having a QPV without a leaky boot!. I might do as Alan Surrey suggested and put sone sort of dehumidifier in the boot though.

Thanks again.

Tim

 

[Ebenezer]

For anyone with a sunroof on their QPV I would definitely recommend SportsItalia’s service to unblock or even do preventative maintenance.

I was tearing my hair out on how to stop flooding in the front passenger floor recess (garden wire didn’t work) and Matt/Conaero sorted this out. Been excellent since, in spite of the torrential rain we’ve experienced recently.

Where does it ingress?
Eb

 

[mowlas]

Where does it ingress?
Eb

The 4 drain holes are inside the inner channel recess of the sunroof, which the glass rests upon when sunroof is closed.

When the water can’t escape, it overflows, building up in the inner channel and finds entry points in the roof lining and upper roof areas and I believe comes done behind the lining of the A pillars, eventually collecting in the footwell recess areas, underneath the carpet lining.

 

[Ebenezer]

It looks to me like there are no ways water can get in via the sun roof when bit is closed. Rubber seal all round. I'll have ti look closer!
Eb

 

[MarkMas]

It looks to me like there are no ways water can get in via the sun roof when bit is closed. Rubber seal all round. I'll have ti look closer!
Eb

Definitely happens. And if your drains are blocked, you get rainfall from your A pillars and/or water in your footwells, which eats your suspension ECU, which costs £2,000.

 

[mowlas]

Definitely happens. And if your drains are blocked, you get rainfall from your A pillars and/or water in your footwells, which eats your suspension ECU, which costs £2,000.

Spot on Mark. I could feel the headliners and sun visors were dripping wet too. And indeed after SportsItalia cleared the blockages out, have never seen water collecting in the footwells again.

In fact Matt/Conaero did a visual test of pouring water on the sunroof and observing the water dripping into the footwell… before he cleared the blockages.

I’d recommend doing this preventatively - I was lucky my ECU wasn’t affected.

 

[Scaf]

Whenever I have water ingress in the front of cars ( I have not had the problem with my Maserati’s - yet) it has been blocked drains in the front skuttle.
So I would be keeping an eye that.

 

[philw696]

 

[CatmanV2]

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Crappy German steel is the problem there

C

 

[mowlas]

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That must be the worst vinyl wrap job in history.

 

[CatmanV2]

That must be the worst vinyl wrap job in history.

But I got it from eBay!

C

 

[Motorsport3]

Am I the only one that dry stores his QPV?