Model S - Water in Door wells

[Disco3md]

After heavy rains I get water in the door wells of my Model s 2017. I've taken in for service twice and had seals redone and one of the doors reset... wondering if anyone else has/had that problem??

 

[nexusone]

Yes. Poor build quality as you should expect from Tesla. I can even feel drafts around the doors at highway speed. It's pathetic.

 

[glide]

Yes. Not only that, I have a problem with water seeping in to the doors under the window seals.

After a rain, and when the windows dry off, If I roll them down and back up they become soaking wet.

 

[Birdman325]

Got my first car wash yesterday in my Model 3. All of the above. Thankfully no water inside the car - but the door sills were wet when I opened the door and when I rolled down the windows, they rolled up wet!

 

[AmpedRealtor]

Can't wait for the adults to bring some competition.

 

[rooter]

Come on, are any of your cars Salvage? If a side impact there's little chance of fixing it right.

(PS - What's a "door well"?)

 

[tpoltron]

After spending a whole afternoon rebuilding one of our Model S door handles this week because a pathetically underspecced wire broke off a small sensor switch, I verified what the YouTube video said: that the poorly glued on inner lock mechanism seal always falls off, so water (or whatever else) that passes through the significant gaps around the handles easily enterS and contaminates the door cavity. Big design flaw.

I’m a huge fan of Tesla and their mission but sometimes it’s hard making excuses for their inexperience and poor quality. Doubly worse I got an ear full from the wife cause our brand new Model 3 threw a bunch of errors (no regen, no AP etc) for no reason for the second time this week and after 55 minutes on hold Tesla service said ‘yup known problem - firmware update coming soon’. At least you don’t have to go to the dealer for the update, unlike every other car so far.

 

[Tic-tac-toe]

Got my first car wash yesterday in my Model 3. All of the above. Thankfully no water inside the car - but the door sills were wet when I opened the door and when I rolled down the windows, they rolled up wet!

Yup. Same thing for my MS P100D. The guy at the car wash told me to open the doors and dry the door sills too so that maybe common in cars? IDK.

 

[Droschke]

All my door sills get soaked with rain water every time it rains. I towel dry them once back home. It shouldn't be this way. None of the previous cars we have owned had this issue. Also agree with the cold "drafts around the doors at highway speed" comment above.

 

[born2run]

I get water spots on the runners inside doors. This also happens with my wife’s 2019 Audi Q7 so I think this is quite common. I have no complaint of my 2018 S 100D build quality. Sure would I like the paint to be a bit tougher - yes but other than that it is pretty sound.

 

[glide]

I get water spots on the runners inside doors. This also happens with my wife’s 2019 Audi Q7 so I think this is quite common.

Ummmmm nope. It’s not.

 

[Knightowl]

The lock nuts (dont know what else they are called) need to be installed on the door handle back seals to keep them on and tight or they fall off after a short time.