"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
09/26/2018 at 14:26 • Filed to: None
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"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
09/26/2018 at 14:26 • Filed to: None | 1
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In my continuing quest to document our fourth-gen Odyssey’s dozens of strange design
flaws
quirks as they annoy me in real time, today featured some rain. Lots of it. Time to examine some doors!
OK, nothing really crazy here — just a front door with an “inset” frame and a sliding door with a “full” frame. They’re two different types of doors, no biggie. But let’s look inside, starting with the sliding door:
First, you can see that the sliding door benefits from the roof rain channel, followed by a rubber rain channel, followed by the actual door seal. That’s three levels of protection, not bad! Although the inner rain channel drips freely into the B-pillar area right next to the driver’s ear, so whenever you’re driving in the rain it’s like a faucet is running next to your head. I can get used to it, but it could have been done a lot better.
Finally, the driver’s door:
That rain channel in the roof is too shallow to be useful. And there is no real rubber channel like the sliding door has — just an inner seal that does nothing useful to prevent rain from dripping into the car. Nope, the driver and front passenger get the full benefit of an entire longroof of rain pouring onto them...just for opening the door. Bonus that I was parked slightly downhill and tilting left.
The main problem is that the roof channel is just too shallow, or there need to be two of them in succession. But I doubt this is something that causes a lot of problems with repeat buyers accustomed to mediocrity (which I still believe are 90% of all Honda buyers — which will be to Honda’s peril in the long run).
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I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/26/2018 at 15:13 |
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Neat.
In my Golf, water just puddles up in the bottom of the door frame. Thanks, Germany!
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Ash78, voting early and often
> I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
09/26/2018 at 15:15 |
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My Passat has all the rain channels hidden, which inevitably
clog up with leaves and debris and can secretly flood the cabin and electronics. That’s always nice.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/26/2018 at 15:26 |
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I think what you’re describing as a rain channel in the roof is really just a seam line. Modern cars having the whole side as a single piece which is then attached to a seam on the roof which gets covered rather than seaming multiple pieces under a roof edge/rain gutter. Universal practice, pretty much, but actually started with AMC.
Any amount of the time it acts like a rain gutter is incidental.
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Ash78, voting early and often
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/26/2018 at 15:33 |
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It’s not a rain channel like you’d see on a delivery van, for example (which is a larger
welded piece added later), but those indentations are definitely supposed to channel the rain away from the door
opening. They also serve to help direct airflow over the roof
, from what I understand, but I’m not sure if that’s just a side benefit
. But on newer cars, the channel seems to be getting shallower across the board. I never paid attention to them until my mom started complaining about her new car (10 years ago) dumping water all over her
. Now I can’t unsee them. Such a simple thing to overlook until your window switches and carpet are all soaked.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> Ash78, voting early and often
09/26/2018 at 16:08 |
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It’s your own fault for living where it rains.