Well, I took the door panels off this evening(after a lovely 24-hour rainstorm). The backs of the panels were bone dry, as was the moisture barrier. But the floors were soaked...AGAIN. So, with the door panels off, the rear carpet pulled up(and a flashlight at this point), I set a hose on top of the car, and let it run water down the door while I sat inside looking for the leak. Well, sure enough, it was leaking right past the moisture barrier, and it was POURING. But only at two points...where the lower hook-like mounting clips for the door panel are. Wonderful. So if I get a chance tomorrow, I'm going to try and divert the flow of the incoming water back inside the door, where it will(hopefully) flow out of the drain holes in the bottom of the door(which are, and were, free of debris).
Here's what my moisture barriers used to look like: http://phobia16v.vwmafia.net/images/mycars/mycars88gli/doors/doors15.jpg And here's what they look like now: http://phobia16v.vwmafia.net/images/mycars/mycars88gli/doors/doors16.jpg And although this is a picture of the front door, the clip that the water is leaking past(the black one) on the rear door is no different: http://phobia16v.vwmafia.net/images/mycars/mycars88gli/doors/doors6.jpg You can see the inner part of the door shell in that picture. I'm going to try to divert the water to the outside(inside? of that. I'll keep you guys posted as to what I come up with to solve this issue. -Dave '88 Jetta GLI 16V '91 Jetta GTX 16V '81 Scirocco S
