Anyone else? Its a soft buffetting, but distinct. The service guy hears it, but said he couldn't do much in the short time I had allotted. He wants to take off a door panel. (?)

 

Brooke,

Yep! Same thing, obviously louder @ higher speeds, but noticeable and annoying. I'll tip off my service adviser and allot more time and press for a loaner...

Thanks for letting me know it isn't just me.

Skeeter
2010 XKR

 

Same thing, in my 2007 XK coupe. I hear at highway speeds. Had a tech take it out on the highway with me, he thought it was air somehow leaking through perhaps the side-view mirror mount, he couldn't be sure. Neither can I. One of these days I'm going to experiment with some tape and see if I can isolate it.

 

You can take a dollar bill and close in door, if it pulls out easy then weatherstrip bad or door misaligned, which causes a lot of noise. For mirrors and door handles, tape off with painters tape and see if quiet, would be handle or mirror seal.

 

Can you describe the sound in more detail? I don't hear any "air" in my 2010.

There is some road noise, of course, but I don't hear any thing that sounds like air leaking...

 

It's a window glass adjustment thing; the distance between the glass and the rear glass frame is slightly off.
It can be re-adjusted by taking of the door panel (of course it is advised to let a authorized dealer / service do it)

 

thank you very much
after struggling with this wind noise for ever
i tried your suggestion and found the spots that did not seal well on the door
they were so obvious with the paper test.
i simply slit the gasket and pushed inside a vinyl tube from home depot.
on the most troubling spot i also had to glue a piece of black rubber tubing in the grove of the gasket

 

Found it! For me the sound was air leaking in through my driver's side window along the A-pillar (ie, near the side view mirror). But I don't understand the explanation of your fix Adol. Possible to post a pic of your 'fixed gasket'?

 

Interesting--my 2007 XKR has this noise as well. However, my 2006 X350 had the same exact noise. I figured it was wind noise around the side mirrors as they appear to be the same design!

 

i lent the jag to a relative as soon as i get back i take the pix
but it is simple:
for testing i used a strip of paper the width of a $ bill and found that the door gasket was leaking all the way on the front section, the top and the vertical section.
in other words practically all around the window portion of the door.
once i found that i first tried to stop the leak by putting weatherstripping foam on the door sill and had a friend make a couple of high speed runs on the interstate, the foam made no difference, tried the paper test with the foam in place and, to my surprise the paper slid out really easily again.

so i made some slits in the door gasket. (actually three slits, i will explain where in a minute). the gasket is essentially a rubber tube with a flat side , with the flat side locking into the door grove and the tube side being the actual seal.
it was apparent that the tube side had become flatter over the years. So i got some 1/4" and 3/8"polyethylene tubing ( the vinyl actually would stick going in) and fed it into the tube portion of the gasket as far is it would go.
when it would go no further because of a curve or a restriction in the tube i cut the tubing it off short and pushed it in. because of the geometry and the size of the rubber tube gasket i had to make 3 slits in order to cover all the sections that were flat.
By the way before feeding the poly tubing in i doused it in silicone oil ( we have silicone oil in the factory, but otherwise i would use silicone dielectric grease or perhaps even regular motor oil) in order to ease the insertion of the poly tubing.
after doing that we made a few 100 mph runs and the noise was down 90%.

did the paper sliding test once more and found a small sction, about 6" long at the very top of the door that would still allow the paper to slide out.
so there i glued a section of 1/4" thin wall rubber tubing in the grove of the door gasket between the tube section and the flat section only in the section of the top that was still loose , i used contact cement to glue the rubber tubing.
now the wind noise is totally gone.
i used 1/4" and 3/8" because in the vertical section the gasket has a smaller diameter tube
i glued the slit shut with crazy glue. that does not look great . when i will have time i will get some inner tube patch material and glue it on the slit with contact cement

 

thanks for the tip!!!!
was able to find the soursce of the wind noise thanks to the dollar trick.

but unfortunately, i just cant quite understand your decribed solution. NO OFFENSE!
I guess,FOr me, explanations have to be addressed as if i were a 3year old child. Or photos also tend to work really well. haha BUT REALLY, could you please add photos...PLease!

Muchos Thanks!
DAG

 

Ok i will explain better:
buy 4 feet of 1/4 plastic tubing ( normally white translucent but any color will do)
cut a half inch slit in the existing gasket next to the section that is leaking air into the cabin, then lube the plastic tubing with motor oil or any oil you may have around even transmission fluid or engine coolant.
then insert the tubing into the existing gasket that you just slit.
push it in as far as it goes. then back up an inch cut the plastic tubing and shove it back in.
done
do the test with the dollar bill
it ought to be done if not let me know and i will explain the next step.
the slit you can leave it cut or you can glue it back with super glue

 

Beware of using motor oil, transmission fluid, or brake fluid on or in the weatherstripping. These will erode and degenerate the rubber pretty fast. Try using a silicone spray instead.