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Winslet



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Looked a little more at these holes today. Just to show you the ones I think we are talking about, photo below.

I took the battery cover off and had a look at where the water drains to from these holes, and beneath the holes there is a plastic tray with sloping sides (outward from the middle, as if to catch something, ie water) and by feel there is a small drain hole which in turn must allow the water to drain out under the wing. When it rains, all the water off the windscreen is either channelled out to the side channels in either corner of the bottom of the windscreen (which have little flaps that are often blocked with leaves) or down through these holes.

Cobbet1, have you had a feel underneath where the water drains through these holes and whether the hole here is blocked? If this hole was blocked and the water overflowed from the tray, it would then drain into the area by the ABS unit and the intake for the cabin. That would certainly lead to misted up windows IMO.

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So that's the little Censored ? IMHO, they look a little too small to be drain holes for water, either that or a really bad design as surely after a short period, these would become easily blocked with debris??? Just my opinion...

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Hi winslett,
Yes have had the whole scuttle panel off to make sure everything is clear, as you say funnel shape under passenger side, and on drivers side similar set up but with a flap to let water out,
So far car has been much better since clearing the holes out, mine were so bad you could hardly see them, current thinking is that sitting water would gently run through holes and then run along underside of scuttle panel to drip where it shouldn't or just stay permanently damp, so still monitoring it , could just be coincidental with upturn in weather.

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Winslet



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Hope you have sorted it.

Knew there was a name for the shape. Funnel. That covers it!

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Fingers crossed it has sorted it Andy.

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Since reading this thread I've frequently cleaned out these small (drain?) holes pictured above which are very easily blocked.

However I'm at a loss to understand why they are there? Any standing water in that area would anyway drain away through the main rubber flapped channels.

Why would LR go to the expense of fitting collector/drain funnels under these small holes when it would be cheaper to just omit the holes and let the water drain through the main channels

So these holes must serve another purpose, are they actually pressure vents, or are they used in setting up the wiper sweep, or moulding locators, or used for some other purpose? I'm intrigued because I don't think that LR would design drain holes that would undoubtedly block up every month, and they are certainly not cleared out during services. So if it doesn't matter whether they are blocked or not why are they there?

Anyone have any ideas?

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Dennis

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