Drivers door seal is whistling like a camping kettle and has a very faint draft (along the top edge)  but keeps water out, is this something I can get sorted under warranty (which ends in September)  iv read about the noisy mirrors, but really think it’s the seals as it’s right by my ear! bloody annoying, I had the radio turned down low as partner asleep on a long late night motorway drive

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I think it's a feature of the car,mine has a faint wind noise top of both pillars,so did the 2 cars I test drove,it's not very annoying tbh,unless yours is very bad.

What I find much more annoying I'd the rattly front calipers on really crappy roads,sounds like the ARB bushes falling out.

1 hour ago, 181ce said:

I think it's a feature of the car,mine has a faint wind noise top of both pillars,so did the 2 cars I test drove,it's not very annoying tbh,unless yours is very bad.

What I find much more annoying I'd the rattly front calipers on really crappy roads,sounds like the ARB bushes falling out.

I see you have a Range Rover classic,  so I guess your used to noise and “features” ...ie Landrover build quilty, lol

next time I’ll be the sleeping passenger or keep radio on loud.  

Ps

Toyota test their land cruiser door seals by putting a cat in the vehicle, if it’s dead a few days later they know it’s airtight,

Landrover decided to do the same by putting a cat in a defender, they came back the next morning, the cat had gone! 

 

 

Mine did the same - quite badly.

Seals were replaced and made no change, so I guess it is a "feature"

 

...my new Seat Leon also does it, but very, very faintly - for the most part it is silent.

 

Weirdly enough, this also seems to be an intermittent fault on both cars.

22 minutes ago, andyasjl said:

I see you have a Range Rover classic,  so I guess your used to noise and “features” ...ie Landrover build quilty, lol

next time I’ll be the sleeping passenger or keep radio on loud.  

Ps

Toyota test their land cruiser door seals by putting a cat in the vehicle, if it’s dead a few days later they know it’s airtight,

Landrover decided to do the same by putting a cat in a defender, they came back the next morning, the cat had gone! 

 

 

In defence of ancient Landrovers,they don't pretend to be anything they're not plus any monkey can keep em going , personally I wouldn't have anything newer than a disco 2.

/L322

Having come from a long line of BMW's etc I can confidently say everything has "features"

Also I think I also like the unpretentious nature of Skoda.

 

18 minutes ago, Jaco2k said:

Mine did the same - quite badly.

Seals were replaced and made no change, so I guess it is a "feature"

 

...my new Seat Leon also does it, but very, very faintly - for the most part it is silent.

 

Weirdly enough, this also seems to be an intermittent fault on both cars.

Ok looks like it’s a feature then, might try a new seal just in case though

8 minutes ago, 181ce said:

In defence of ancient Landrovers,they don't pretend to be anything they're not plus any monkey can keep em going , personally I wouldn't have anything newer than a disco 2.

/L322

Having come from a long line of BMW's etc I can confidently say everything has "features"

Also I think I also like the unpretentious nature of Skoda.

 

100% with you with Skoda being unpretentious, Also i am a ex  110 300 tdi  defender owner so only lovingly mocking, wish I had kept it, worth a bit now

27 minutes ago, andyasjl said:

100% with you with Skoda being unpretentious, Also i am a ex  110 300 tdi  defender owner so only lovingly mocking, wish I had kept it, worth a bit now

This time around I'm gonna break the cycle,

Buy it weld it sell it I'm just gonna keep it ,

Costs me near as dammit nothing and is more useful than a pocket in your jeans,

Which reminds me I'd better get it's NCT done.

52 minutes ago, andyasjl said:

Ok looks like it’s a feature then, might try a new seal just in case though

 

From my investigation and some discrete attempt to fix the issue by the dealership guy without me noticing what he was doing, I would take a look at the corner of the door, near to where the hood meets the mirror, right where the seal starts.

 

It seems it gets bent there and lets air inside the door.

It is a design flaw, so any new seal will do the same after a while.

Edited 10 May, 20188 yr by Jaco2k

In case this might help anyone, strongly pushing the horizontal crhrome insert inwards will reduce and even eliminate the whistling sound, at least it worked in my case. In order to address the issue even further, I might put some thin felt stripes inside the door frame, in the mirror/hood meeting area, in case it might deflect or stop that bit of air coming in, which seems to cause the issue as well in my car.

In the attached picture, the chrome is already pushed in, but it was clearly sticking out before.