Potential water ingress?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by gcmak

LOL I've seen so many interior deep clean videos like this...somehow they never get old.



That's true, although now I've chatted with 2 other BRZ owners online, a 2017 and a 2019 with the same pattern on their visors. To me, the plot now thickens and I'll see what Subaru Service has to say on Wednesday.

Have to admit I checked my 2020 earlier. Not a mark. Never saw it on the FRS in the 6 years I had it.
Very odd.

[DarkPira7e]

I wonder if there's a trend with people who drive in the rain with a window cracked open? My car doesn't have this, but my windows never come down.

Seems improbable, by maybe water runs through enough on the gasket and gets into the roof liner. I can't explain the visors though. Has to be something with the windshield..

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

I wonder if there's a trend with people who drive in the rain with a window cracked open? My car doesn't have this, but my windows never come down.

Seems improbable, by maybe water runs through enough on the gasket and gets into the roof liner. I can't explain the visors though. Has to be something with the windshield..

I smoke so my window is cracked in all weather conditions and I have not experienced this phenomenon. In fact the aero is so well done that when moving everything is sucked right out.


I think the odd part of this is that his car had been parked in a garage, in California, for 3 weeks.

[x808drifter]

Has anything been put on them like armor all ect?

[gcmak]

Originally Posted by x808drifter

Has anything been put on them like armor all ect?

The visor, headliner, and pillar trims are probably the only parts of the car that I haven't touched with any cleaner or water, since buying the car a few months ago.

[gcmak]

Car is with the dealer. They suspect the plastic that covered the visors during shipping and pre-delivery may have caused the discoloration. They're ordering replacement visors. They don't see any evidence of water damage but my advisor will ask the tech if a water leak test needs to be performed.

Unrelated to the visors, but when driving this week, I noticed clunking when turning to almost full lock for parking. Service advised that there's a TSB out and will replace my front upper right strut mount...quick google brought me to this: https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...&postcount=370. That shouldn't apply to my car but we'll see!

[gcmak]

6 days later, I have not heard back from the dealer. I called before they closed last Friday, when my car was originally promised to be done, but my advisor left. Reception said they sent him a message, and also confirmed with another advisor that my car was not done.

I plan to follow up again tomorrow since it'll be a full week of my car in their possession with no updates. No news is good news?

[gcmak]

Dealer called. Got my car back. They strongly believe it to be a manufacturing defect in the visor in whatever it was coated with even before it was installed in the car; once exposed to the elements, it deteriorated. So not even the original theory of the plastic wrap causing the issue.

I have to go back when the passenger visor arrives. For some reasons it's weeks back ordered.

They did replace my right front strut and strut mount and the popping noise is now gone.