Door drips water?

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Thank you so much for all your help! Question what is this? I saw it on top of my windshield.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 AT 11:34 AM
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Hmm, looks like bird poo.
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025 AT 4:07 PM
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Yeah that’s what I thought I just couldn’t identify it, lol.
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Friday, July 11th, 2025 AT 9:09 AM
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Updated question, I noticed my door also drips a little water after a storm. Does back to back rainstorms increase how much water actually comes out of the weep holes? For example it only rained one day this week and it was fairly light rain and only a few drops came out of my weep hole yet last week it rained every single day heavy thunderstorms and more water came out of my grandmas car weep hole. We have the same exact car
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 AT 8:28 AM
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The water is going to drip out regardless. They are not identical, there will always be subtle differences is sealers, paint, seal quality and more. Just the nature of mass production. If you were to strip them into all the pieces you might find 20 parts out of the thousands that are actually the same, and then you would need for them to be assembled exactly the same. Never going to happen because everything has tolerances in fit and finish materials and more. That is why the door seals are rubber, why every hole in every panel is slightly larger than the bolts that go through them. All needed to make them all fit and be as cheap as possible to maximize profit at sale.
Then you have location. Her car may have been parked at a slightly different angle, the tires may have had higher pressure due to sunlight or heat. The wind might have pushed the rain at a different angle, if they were parked near each other the air currents around them will influence the rain. What you are seeing is 100% normal. Want an example - Go into any clothing store, pick out 10 items of a garment, compare them, Those are at most 20 pieces assembled to a pattern, find any 2 that are actually the same. Not going to happen. Same thing with cars. There are tens of thousands of variables in them and how they respond to the environment is one of them. The more rain you have, the more water has to get out. There will also be some water that gets trapped because of the vehicles position. The drains are designed to work when the car is perfectly level. Now say the inner panel is crimped just a tiny bit different where it attaches to the outer skin, now the drain might not be in the exact spot to drain out all the water, then the car is moved or the sun shines on it and the materials shift around and now that water can get out. No different than everything else, her radio might be louder, the engine in yours might be smoother, the tires might wear better. All due to those tiny differences. She's your grandmother which means you share her DNA, do you look act and think exactly the way she does? I'm going to bet you don't. No different with cars and car parts.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 AT 11:37 AM
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Thank you! I always like your responses because they're always super thorough. And I believe you're right because her car seems to be slightly more on an incline than mine plus hers sits for a few days so is it possible more water may accumulate in the weep hole and by the time I open the door a tad more drips out? Because my car I use practically every day so it's not really sitting for extended periods of time.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 AT 12:13 PM
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Every day = airflow through the vents and body and that will blow water around and dry it out faster as well. Probably not a bad idea if you have 2 and hers sets around to do what I do. Alternate driving them. Keeps them limber and dries out anything that might get damp. Also confuses the rodents.
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 AT 5:41 PM
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Haven't had any rodent situations lately. I'm not sure if the mint repelled them or not but after I did that I hadn't had any more activity with my previous vehicle (the 2022 forte) but now that I have the new k4 I told myself I wouldn't spray a bunch of mint because the smell is awful and I think the problem is resolved. We have the bait traps checked weekly. Shouldn't this be ok?
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 AT 9:38 AM
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Also another question, I noticed after landscapers trimmed some bushes that a few leaves were in the lower grille near the radiator is this an issue? Also is this something the dealership can easily remove so there's no debris buildup
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 AT 11:50 AM
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Good to hear you have kept the rodents away. Leaves are not an issue, If you want just brush them off. They won't hurt anything. Probably drop off when they dry out anyway. Like many newer cars they don't actually draw much air through the grill, 99% of the air actually gets pulled in from under the front end.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 AT 10:00 PM
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Okay so if there are two leaves in the lower grille by the radiator nothing can overheat or anything? How can I remove them?
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Thursday, July 17th, 2025 AT 5:24 AM
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Nope, not an issue. You can remove them with whatever you like. I usually blow the bugs and dirt out with an air wand on my compressor, but that isn't something that most people own. But if you can see them a pair of long tweezers or even a feather duster to get them out. That or let them dry out and they will fall out sooner or later.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2025 AT 12:34 PM
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Hey Steve is there any way I can specifically have you answer a question for me without starting a new thread because I trust your answers most
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 AT 7:48 AM
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Found this on my car it’s paper thin and brownish black what is it?
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 AT 7:50 AM
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Looks like a discarded cocoon, look in the trees around where you drive for a bagworm nest, they leave ones like that when they hatch. Questions are handled on a first come first serve basis. If a new one pops up someone grabs it.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 AT 6:31 PM
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Oh ok so it’s not a rodent or anything? I was worried when I saw it on the hood of the car. There have been a lot of landscapers around lately cutting grass and trees I wonder if it debris was blown and landed on the car? It was super thin didn’t feel like a dropping
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 AT 8:26 AM
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Here’s another picture
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 AT 8:28 AM
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It’s the little dot I’m pointing to
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 AT 8:28 AM
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Also I don’t know if this is helpful in any way but I have been having a mourning dove constantly resting on the car so wasn’t sure if that was something from a dove like maybe their poo or something.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 AT 8:33 AM
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Probably blew in from the work around you. Just give it a good bath and a nice coat of wax and that would help with anything sticking to it. Just don't use my vehicles as an example, I haven't wash or waxed a vehicle I own in a very, very long time. Usually they rot away underneath long before the paint fades around here. Poo would be solid, not just a husk.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 AT 10:43 AM

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