Anyone have a door fill up with water?!

[raress9596]

Well I just had this same issue with my Tahoe. I need to check the drain holes in it. I hate that this is an issue. I will report back after I check on it.

I was the original poster way back. I almost forgot to look at the bottoms of the doors in my 2015 till just now. Remove the plugs at the bottom of your doors and your good to go. The window seal will never keep water out. Don't believe they were intended too. I've owned a long list of GM trucks and never had a door rust.

 

[jonesh529]

COOL
I will do that today. I just got my truck back so I call look into it

 

[jonesh529]

I was the original poster way back. I almost forgot to look at the bottoms of the doors in my 2015 till just now. Remove the plugs at the bottom of your doors and your good to go. The window seal will never keep water out. Don't believe they were intended too. I've owned a long list of GM trucks and never had a door rust.

which plugs are you referring to? Do you have a pic of the plugs? Also what is the best way to clean out the little whole in the door that gets clogged?

thanks

 

[Tibo77]

Love little tid bits like this, I'll be checking my doors tonight.. I've heard sloshing before too!

 

[CHOO CHOO]

Love little tid bits like this, I'll be checking my doors tonight.. I've heard sloshing before too!

I had to pull mine out a long time ago. **** was full of water....mind boggling if you ask me that we pay this much money to have the inside of a door fill with water.....

 

[fire730]

It's not supposed to be sealed. Just like a sunroof its going to have water flow through it.

Keep the drains clean and you will be fine.

I just use a tie wrap (zip tie) to make sure the holes in the bottom of the door are clear to flow water.

 

[CrashTestDummy]

Part of our car wash procedure now is to run a towel between the lower door seal and the inner door panel, and to run a Q-tip into the door drains. It seems to help, even with the Biblical rains we've had recently.

 

[63Blackseries]

Had heavy rain for a few days and heard water swooshing around while driving, thought some one had left a water jug and hid it some where until i opened the right rear passenger door it was filled up with water WTF!, found the drain plug and at least 1 gallon of water drained out, weird never had this problem with NBS or previous NNBS years.

 

[adventurenali92]

Should I be worried about this on my 2006 Denali xl? Never had an issue like this with my 1999 Dakota or 2001 durango. I wash my car often because I'm an incredibly **** detailer that likes to have a clean car. I always clean out my door jams very thoroughly because I'm incredibly meticulous but is that enough to keep those door drains clear? Didn't know there was such a thing. And why would the window seals not keep water out? Isn't that kind of the point of a seal? To keep unwanted water out?!

 

[fire730]

I've only encountered the problems on the shorter trucks. (Tahoe & Yukon) I'm guessing it has a tighter drain because of the door configuration because of the rear wheel. (Don't quote me on that - Just my observation)

The seal keeps a lot of the water out but some water does go through the inside of the door. Which is the reason for the drains.

 

[CHOO CHOO]

I just took my plugs out, honestly didn't care and it serves no other purpose.

 

[CrashTestDummy]

Should I be worried about this on my 2006 Denali xl? Never had an issue like this with my 1999 Dakota or 2001 durango. I wash my car often because I'm an incredibly **** detailer that likes to have a clean car. I always clean out my door jams very thoroughly because I'm incredibly meticulous but is that enough to keep those door drains clear? Didn't know there was such a thing. And why would the window seals not keep water out? Isn't that kind of the point of a seal? To keep unwanted water out?!

Living in southern California, you probably have nothing to worry about. You can check, though. The drains are along the bottom of the door. You may have to lift the door seal up a bit to see them. If they're clogged, it's easy enough to run a Q-Tip through them a couple of times to clean them out.

 

[adventurenali92]

Living in southern California, you probably have nothing to worry about. You can check, though. The drains are along the bottom of the door. You may have to lift the door seal up a bit to see them. If they're clogged, it's easy enough to run a Q-Tip through them a couple of times to clean them out.

I live up in the mountains and we get a fair amount of rain and snow in the winter time. I checked it this morning while I was working on my house mates 2005 esky esv and ran q a tip through mine. Mine were totally dry and no dirt came out. But I ran q tips through all four of the doors on the esky across those little slots on the bottom. Only one the back passenger side door had a little moisture in it but no dirt clogging. Which is interesting because she stays home most days with their kids and her car doesn't get driven anywhere near as much as mine does. Caddy, as we just call it, will often sit in the level driveway for a couple days at a time where as I my Denali gets driven every day because I run my mobile detailing business with it. I would have expected more moisture built up in hers. But it has been pretty dry the last two weeks now.

 

[08HoeCD]

Just discovered the huge sloshing sound in my rig while pulling away from a STOP sign a quarter-mile from my house yesterday. Pulled into my garage, opened the door, unplugged the drain, and then almost a quart of water flowed out.
Uggghhhhh

 

[63Blackseries]

Just discovered the huge sloshing sound in my rig while pulling away from a STOP sign a quarter-mile from my house yesterday. Pulled into my garage, opened the door, unplugged the drain, and then almost a quart of water flowed out.
Uggghhhhh

yup i get it every time it rain's hard, always on the right rear door though the drain holes must be clogged?

 

[08HoeCD]

Lots of things occur in all parts of a vehicle, but I never would have dreamed I would have to check the doors of a modern vehicle to manually drain them of water after a heavy rain.

 

[63Blackseries]

Ya same here, wierd thing is this never happend in a nbs and a previous nnbs I've owned.

 

[eagle-co94]

I had the same thing happen on my 2005 Cadillac CTS-V. It turns out the door drains were all clogged with debris. I ran my fingers underneath the gasket and cleared the holes and it took several minutes to drain it all out but never had the problem again after that.

 

[Deanna]

Had the same problem with same rear passenger door on my '08 Denali this week. Got to looking around at door for place for water get in. Mine has at least 1/4" gap in the metal seam at the top front edge of door. Must be where it got in. Other door has a gap but much more narrow.

 

[Brian Wilson]

I gave up on keeping the water out. I just opened the drain holes up with a dremel