Water under my floormats?
Very time I pull up my floor mats to vacuum them off, there's water condensed on the bottom/rubber side. The carpet underneath is also damp. Wtf. I haven't tore up my carpet yet to get to my drain plugs, that's the only cause I can think of.
I have the exact same issues.. according to all of my searching there is a TSB for door and windshield seals this is the cause of wet floors in JK's.
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Monday was my 7th trip to the dealer for this type of problem. I asked them to just Rhino-line the floor and they said Jeep won't allow them too. The factory warranty pays $400 every repair trip plus the cost of my rental SUV. Ouch!!!
Interesting timing on this thread... I think I may have finally fixed mine last night, or at least gone a long way towards fixing it.
I've found where the water is coming from, at least on my Jeep: the top 4~5 inches of the windshield/door junction. The roof (both hardtop and softtop) drain down the a-pillar when the Jeep is parked, and seal there doesn't close tight enough to keep water from seeping in. So some if it curves around the a-pillar staying behind the trip all the way to the floor. Occasionally some will drip out from behind the trim onto the dashboard, but most often it stays hidden.
I took a close look at the door/a-pillar junction and noticed that the gap at the top was almost 1/8th of an inch wider than near the bottom of the windshield and that the door seal was visibly not as compressed. And then I looked at a co-worker's JK, which had a perfectly even gap along the entire a-pillar/door joint. I'm guessing that at some point the former owner of my Jeep dropped the windshield and didn't manage to get it back in the right position again.
To fix it, I loosened all of the bolts holding the windshield in place, but I still couldn't get the windshield to move where I wanted it. Took me a bit, but I finally figured out that if I completely removed the bolt holding the bracing bar (the one bracing the windshield to the sport cage) to the b-pillar (just loosening it wasn't enough), then I could actually adjust the angle of the windshield. The hard part is holding the windshield back tight enough against the seals to get an even gap along the a-pillar/door line. I was able to get it about halfway there via brute force (and I'm not a small guy - there was a LOT of force involved), but I to get it all the way I'd have to use ratchet straps (which, now that I'm thinking about it, I probably should have done from the get-go).
I did this last night, so I've not yet seen how it handles the rain. I'll know more tomorrow - we're supposed to get a good soaking in the next 24 hours. If this works as is, great. If not I'll redo the job, but use the ratchet straps to get the windshield in exactly the right position and possibly take photos and do a full write-up on the process.
I've found where the water is coming from, at least on my Jeep: the top 4~5 inches of the windshield/door junction. The roof (both hardtop and softtop) drain down the a-pillar when the Jeep is parked, and seal there doesn't close tight enough to keep water from seeping in. So some if it curves around the a-pillar staying behind the trip all the way to the floor. Occasionally some will drip out from behind the trim onto the dashboard, but most often it stays hidden.
I took a close look at the door/a-pillar junction and noticed that the gap at the top was almost 1/8th of an inch wider than near the bottom of the windshield and that the door seal was visibly not as compressed. And then I looked at a co-worker's JK, which had a perfectly even gap along the entire a-pillar/door joint. I'm guessing that at some point the former owner of my Jeep dropped the windshield and didn't manage to get it back in the right position again.
To fix it, I loosened all of the bolts holding the windshield in place, but I still couldn't get the windshield to move where I wanted it. Took me a bit, but I finally figured out that if I completely removed the bolt holding the bracing bar (the one bracing the windshield to the sport cage) to the b-pillar (just loosening it wasn't enough), then I could actually adjust the angle of the windshield. The hard part is holding the windshield back tight enough against the seals to get an even gap along the a-pillar/door line. I was able to get it about halfway there via brute force (and I'm not a small guy - there was a LOT of force involved), but I to get it all the way I'd have to use ratchet straps (which, now that I'm thinking about it, I probably should have done from the get-go).
I did this last night, so I've not yet seen how it handles the rain. I'll know more tomorrow - we're supposed to get a good soaking in the next 24 hours. If this works as is, great. If not I'll redo the job, but use the ratchet straps to get the windshield in exactly the right position and possibly take photos and do a full write-up on the process.



