Anyone got a picture of the inner door with the panel off??

I replaced my door panels the other day because they were cloth and getting dirty.
Turned out to be water coming through. I refixed the plastic that had been torn over the years, but my new panels are wet again.

Yes its been pissing down unnaturally here in Sydney, but my car lives outside 24/7 so I need it fixed

Also what plastic are you using.
I got a large black garbage bag and opened it flat but it seems the be coming through this?? porous??

Would like to see where it is stuck down in the middle to allow the door latch to pass through.

These are 1975 L bug doors if that matters

Barry

Barry, the standard door waterproof sheet is normaly just stuck to the inside of the door, directly behind the door cards.

Because I put remote central locking and electric windows in my bug, I moved the waterproof sheet to the back of the inside door skin, but inside the window glass so I could keep the water off the electrics.

This is the electrics in the door (before the car was re-sprayed).
Central locking -


Electric windows -


So here is the waterproof sheet (I used blue plastic tarpaulin material, because that is what I had) behind the inside door skin.


And here is where I fixed it at the top, to the top of the internal door skin, inside the window glass. I glued it on with contact glue - bugger of a job though.


That was nearly 5 years ago, and I haven't had any problems so far (touch wood).

The plastic bag off a new mattress works well.
Bought a sofa the other day and the plastic it was wrapped in looked pretty good too.
It looked like it came off a continuous roll so try a sofa shop.

It seems to be the factories desire for residual water that passes into the door to simply pass through into the bottom and via the factory drain holes.

The only water proofing on my 69' provided courtesy by the factory was the glued on plastic sheet all have refered to thus far, which was just inside the door card, fastened by glue just inside of the door card clips. Simply keeps the water inside the door, but not pass through the card or into the cabin.

Hi

I have a roll somewhere of good stuff to use, its about as tough as landscaping plastic sheet, you could also cover the back of the door trim with contact paper for extra insurance.

Steve

i used this...cheap from bunnings....maybe $10-15

Josh

Here's the original weatherproofing on my 65 German built.

Even on Aussie built it was only ever glued around the perimeter.

If you used repro clip seals they let water in easy. If you didn't use clip seals ... even worse.

It may have only been with 70s Beetles but they also glued rings of foam around the window winder and the handle to stop drafts coming in around them.

You can see the remains of where it was glued in around Jeffs door handle before his door was resprayed.

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Originally posted by bajachris88 It seems to be the factories desire for residual water that passes into the door to simply pass through into the bottom and via the factory drain holes. The only water proofing on my 69' provided courtesy by the factory was the glued on plastic sheet all have refered to thus far, which was just inside the door card, fastened by glue just inside of the door card clips. Simply keeps the water inside the door, but not pass through the card or into the cabin.