Water leak on the inside of the car.

[nigwhyrito]

Hello al need guidance, water leak on the inside of the car. I received a call from the other half today. Telling me that while she was driving today the rain came in small droplets through the upper console buttons near the garage door opener.

Is that the sunroof drains need to be cleaned? I can never find them? I'm also worried because I just had the windshield replaced a month ago by safelite repair. I told her pull the X in the garage for now ill look it this weekend. Its pouring down rain right now. Any ideas what to check.

I have the panoramic moon roof.
She (the X) has gone through a full auto carwash last week and no drips. So I'm really confused.

[jsoto]

Upper console - eeks.

Start the usual by pouring water and following the leak.

IT sounds like a repair I needed to do, which was NOT cheap - aka, the casette itself

[Black-Forest]

Had a similar issue with my 745i. Ended up clearing the sunroof drains and replacing the sunroof seal. Been good for 2 years now. Going to be doing it on the X5 as well.

[nigwhyrito]

Okay so when you say pour water follow the leak.. Uhm with sunroof closed?
I should pour water on the top front of the roof right. It wouldn't be a leak that come from the back of the roof and come forward somehow right?

[Black-Forest]

There is a tray around the under side of the sunroof designed to catch any water getting past the seal. You can see the tray with the sunroof open. There are 4 drains connected to this tray 2 drain forward and 2 out he back(Pano roof may have 6 not sure on the pano). That said these drains can only take so much water and as we know water migrates to the lowest point. If there is too much water in the tray and it goes to a plugged drain it will spill over into the vehicle. Whats been suggested above is you get into a dry area open sunroof take a bottle of water slowly pour the water into say the right front corner, you want to see the water pouring out the right front drain. if its not running out of there at a decent rate or not at all good chance that drain is plugged. If you look up checking/clearing sunroof drains I'm sure you will find a good DIY. In my case the sunroof seal was simply not sealing any more and allowing too much water into the tray and my drains couldn't handle the volume. In my X5 I can hear a lot of wind noise coming from the sunroof area so I'm confident its time for a seal. After doing the seal in the 7 the noise in the cabin was greatly reduced and more importantly no leaks.

[squidzilla]

Originally Posted by nigwhyrito

Hello al need guidance, water leak on the inside of the car. I received a call from the other half today. Telling me that while she was driving today the rain came in small droplets through the upper console buttons near the garage door opener.

Is that the sunroof drains need to be cleaned? I can never find them? I'm also worried because I just had the windshield replaced a month ago by safelite repair. I told her pull the X in the garage for now ill look it this weekend. Its pouring down rain right now. Any ideas what to check.

I have the panoramic moon roof.
She (the X) has gone through a full auto carwash last week and no drips. So I'm really confused.

Bumping this thread since lucky he has my 5mt leaking some water through the small vent thing right ner the garage door opener buttons. Did this ever get resolved?

[nigwhyrito]

Nope no time to fix it dam snow and rains just about every day just benched the x for now

[audiophool]

Ours has the same leak and only when the nose of the car is pointed down. One fine day I'll see about clearing the drain. In the meantime, I told the wife to always park it 'nose up'.

[kevinkay]

There was service bulletin on this issue.

[cn90]

Actually, I wrote a detailed DIY below. Enjoy...

https://xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-forums/...-kink-fix.html