Rain pours onto front windows from pop top roof above!

[PeterS]

Hi, in Australia we cannot buy the Factory Cali, but a very high quality manufacturer and VW work together to enable the Transporter to be fitted with German VW Made approved components to create a version of the Cali, known down here as the “Trakkadu”. It’s a beautiful piece of engineering with one quirk - in rain the water runs off the pop top roof almost in a spout or stream onto the centre of the drivers and passengers windows, guaranteeing an unwanted freezing cold wet shower of water if you open the window or the door!

Can anyone send photographs of the corner mouldings used on the factory California to show how water is directed to flow away without being concentrated onto the windows? Many thanks from OZ.

 

[Meoncoast]

thought there was a drought in Oz

 

[PeterS]

As your great poet wrote...
“I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of drought and flooding rains ...”

 

[Meoncoast]

Not seen any info on your van so googled. The design appears very different both internally and externally to a California. The issue you have is not inherent in the design of roof on a Cali. Have you thought of wind deflector would the help,

 

[WelshGas]

Hi, in Australia we cannot buy the Factory Cali, but a very high quality manufacturer and VW work together to enable the Transporter to be fitted with German VW Made approved components to create a version of the Cali, known down here as the “Trakkadu”. It’s a beautiful piece of engineering with one quirk - in rain the water runs off the pop top roof almost in a spout or stream onto the centre of the drivers and passengers windows, guaranteeing an unwanted freezing cold wet shower of water if you open the window or the door!

Can anyone send photographs of the corner mouldings used on the factory California to show how water is directed to flow away without being concentrated onto the windows? Many thanks from OZ.

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The big difference between your vehicle and the California is that the California is built without a roof, which is a separate construction fitted at the Special/Specialist Vehicles Factory.
This might help to explain the difference in construction.

 

[PeterS]

Not seen any info on your van so googled. The design appears very different both internally and externally to a California. The issue you have is not inherent in the design of roof on a Cali. Have you thought of wind deflector would the help,

Thank you Andy, it will need the firmest of some type of deflector which channels the water but which doesn’t creat wind noise on the road or other unforeseen problems. I suspect that greater kinds than mine have wrestled with this problem!

 

[PeterS]

The big difference between your vehicle and the California is that the California is built without a roof, which is a separate construction fitted at the Special/Specialist Vehicles Factory.
This might help to explain the difference in construction.

Thank you for attaching the Video - I had no idea just how much manual type specialist labour goes into the production of the California, and doubtless into the vehicles here which undergo what is called “second stage manufacture”. Doubtless this explains the premium price. I’m starting to think that the “quirk” of water running off at the least convenient point may well remain just that, a quirk. The workaround down here is to exit / enter via the side door in rainy weather!

 

[Stoneybroke]

Have you thought about some dubflector or similar wind deflectors around the window? This may throw any water streams in a different direction.

 

[PeterS]

Thank you for your note,,I’ve found this group in the UK, and will try to buy their solution. It’s along the lines you mention.