Hi Art and Mike.

Out in California, we have been talking about water in the wrong places for most the week
We have had flooding in places up and down the whole west coast several times and I move up and down the coastline with the seasons.
Luckily with minimal impact as I’m high enough or it drains very quickly away.
Some years do appear worse than others that will actually hit the national news.
Like the recent Midwest cold blast down from the Arctic every few years.

In my memories some exceptionally heavy rains have appeared about thirty years apart for Central California are or even Northern California for that matter.
Both areas start with several saturating rain deposits much like random surf changes or King tides at the wrong times. And then there’s the “Sneaker” wave.

Both terms are coined as an “atmospheric river” for central California terminology.
Up north some can be out of the Alaskan trough or from Japan.
In Northern California it’s the same
After a so called perpetual string then it is also called a “Pineapple Expresses” term develops.
These are straight from the Hawaiian islands region. Hence the pineapple reference.
This has been going on for several weeks up North from both. We get 2-4 times rain as much rain coasts wise, on average, than Southern California Coasts.
Most of the time my cars are kept inside and do not get these exposures to either at either places.
But this time I got caught by surprise and luckily not in flood waters, except I couldn’t leave my hill for a couple days until it drained away.

I have read about leak locations in our cars over the years so I keep on a look for leaks on all my cars to be on the safe side.
Well, I have been nursing a 17 year concern of a windshield delaminating in the lower left corner the windshield on my 1991.
The PO stated she had the windshield replaced for a leak earlier, on the drivers side but she wasn’t sure that it was gone. It developed rust under the seal due to a poor installation.

Well? now I’m south and having a mobile windshield service replacing it. This service is not offered up North, nearby me so it’s this winter’s project.
This will be done on my premises under my control.
I’m repairing a rusty pinch weld seat area with the POR 15 system.
Doing it myself, because my skill set cannot be as poor as previously done because I will care.
Not paying for something that can be hidden so well.

The mobile service I’m using was vetted by myself as he did a car two doors down and I watched and learned.
Todays BMWs have to have their windshields calibrated to light and rain sensors plus cameras on board. It’s a $400 dealers charge!
A customer bought his own windshield separately from what the dealer was listing to save money.
It was all in and later the headlights to drive with. They wouldn’t come on.
He had to charge him labor again to replace its windshield for lack of a connection below the dash to the windshield.
Something about the daytime running lights? I guess you just don’t jumper around that GERMAN system in any way?

The latest rain fall has hit the 1992 was over 3.5 inches in one day.
Good time to do the touch and feel after that. I would have never used a hose for that long with the way water shortages have been.

The car received a pronounced but tiny leak spotted from exactly where Art Benstein shows in his photo.
Just enough to dampen the joint between the top of the carpet and the dashes underpinning materials.
The trickle is just as wide as in his photo too!
I stuffed paper towels up there above the electronics in the interim.

I have marked it up as a minor leakage as the windshield in this car was replaced through the Wagonmeister when he refurbished the whole car seven years ago.
He said it was “A diamond in the rough” His exacting terminology was right on!
It’s all age related to that grommet just like Art is showing us.
Another great caring photo from our main man over the years!

I made an earlier post trying to get to here and based its on what I read on the BRICKBOARD!

Everyone should heed this post. Seal that seal up better.
Now to figure how to do that times six! (:-(




Phil