Greg Cavaliere
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- First Name
- Greg
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- May 5, 2020
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- Location
- Charleston, SC
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- 2018 Jeep Wrangler Sahara
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Sorry in advance for the long post…
A few days after purchasing my first Jeep, a 2018 JL with less than 5K miles, I discovered damp carpet in the area of the driver side foot well. In an attempt to identify the problem I removed the trim piece along the front driver side door and the front driver side carpet. I did not remove the rear carpet. The front carpet was quite saturated but there were no obvious signs of water intrusion. There was some residual moisture in the foot well. I wiped down the foot well and dried the carpet. It was then I recalled the words of a good friend. A Jeep owner himself told me, “when you buy a Jeep it comes with a water leak,”. I laughed it off... my other car is a BMW and it came with an oil leak.
My initial assumptions lead me to believe the water dripped into the Jeep when the driver door was opened. Let’s face it, the fact that water drips off the roof channels into the Jeep when front doors are open is the result of a crappy design. So that’s that, I thought... after all, it was raining like cats and dogs the day I bought the Jeep. I reinstalled the carpet and things were fine for a couple of weeks. Coincidentally we had no rainstorms for two weeks, only a sprinkle or two.
Eventually it happened two more times. I discovered wet carpet, removed wet carpet, dried wet carpet, reinstalled carpet, but not after incident # 3. I began to think, maybe I didn’t completely close the driver side door. Perhaps rain water seeped in through the door gasket, and found its way to the foot well, etc. Low and behold, leak incident #4 was a bit more telling. You see, in between leak #3 and #4, I installed a set of Weather Tech floor mats. Leak #4 presented itself as a quarter sized spot near the WeatherTech logo and an inch of water in the floor well. Water is seeping in and following a path under the sides of the floor mat.
I’ve had the vehicle to the dealership three times “they can’t duplicate the issue” but that’s another story. To date the dealer has replaced the driver side door gasket but that has not resolved the issue. The service rep says “we’ve had Jeeps in and out many, many times over the course of six months before we’ve got the root of a leak problem”. I’m not surprised and relatively patient, it’s just an inconvenience at this point.
Again sorry for the long post.
A few days after purchasing my first Jeep, a 2018 JL with less than 5K miles, I discovered damp carpet in the area of the driver side foot well. In an attempt to identify the problem I removed the trim piece along the front driver side door and the front driver side carpet. I did not remove the rear carpet. The front carpet was quite saturated but there were no obvious signs of water intrusion. There was some residual moisture in the foot well. I wiped down the foot well and dried the carpet. It was then I recalled the words of a good friend. A Jeep owner himself told me, “when you buy a Jeep it comes with a water leak,”. I laughed it off... my other car is a BMW and it came with an oil leak.
My initial assumptions lead me to believe the water dripped into the Jeep when the driver door was opened. Let’s face it, the fact that water drips off the roof channels into the Jeep when front doors are open is the result of a crappy design. So that’s that, I thought... after all, it was raining like cats and dogs the day I bought the Jeep. I reinstalled the carpet and things were fine for a couple of weeks. Coincidentally we had no rainstorms for two weeks, only a sprinkle or two.
Eventually it happened two more times. I discovered wet carpet, removed wet carpet, dried wet carpet, reinstalled carpet, but not after incident # 3. I began to think, maybe I didn’t completely close the driver side door. Perhaps rain water seeped in through the door gasket, and found its way to the foot well, etc. Low and behold, leak incident #4 was a bit more telling. You see, in between leak #3 and #4, I installed a set of Weather Tech floor mats. Leak #4 presented itself as a quarter sized spot near the WeatherTech logo and an inch of water in the floor well. Water is seeping in and following a path under the sides of the floor mat.
I’ve had the vehicle to the dealership three times “they can’t duplicate the issue” but that’s another story. To date the dealer has replaced the driver side door gasket but that has not resolved the issue. The service rep says “we’ve had Jeeps in and out many, many times over the course of six months before we’ve got the root of a leak problem”. I’m not surprised and relatively patient, it’s just an inconvenience at this point.
Again sorry for the long post.
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