Ok, I arrived at my parents on Thursday evening and parked the car outside (normally she gets to live in a garage at my house). It snowed on Fri afternoon/evening and a bit this morning. I have just been out to the old girl to clear the snow off and I was somewhat surprised when I opened the drives door to find snow on the drivers seat.

I know sometimes when you open a door when it has been raining, some rain drips off onto the seat, but there was rather too much for this, and it sea between the seat and the door opening on the floor as well. For the other doors and boot, I scraped the snow off first, and yet on open there it was on the seat and even a light sprinkling on the boot floor.

No one has been in the car apart from me just now, so how did snow get in? Are my door seals rubbish and let the snow in? The car had about 1 1/2inchs (max) of snow on the roof. Quite nice soft fluffy stuff.

Oh, my sunroof is shut as were / are all the windows.... Even though it was -3, she started immediately..... good girl :p

Could be the same problem as my yeti this morning.....if you press and hold the unlock button on the key the windows will go down....press the lock button and they will go up......with the key in my pocket my windows went down last night and the snow went in

I have an alientec kit fitted, but certainly the windows had not dropped and gone back up (as they were frozen!). I am wondering if the door rubbers are a bit knackered and allowed the snow/wind combination in

Definitely snow and not 'frost'? If there was a reasonable degree of moisture in the car then frost could easily form, although the seats are not likely to radiate heat that quickly and I'd expect the dash to be covered too. Is the inside of the windscreen frosty?

It must have fallen in when you opened the door and boot

Was a large area covered ?? I can't see the door seals letting a big clump really

The car has completed a 60 mile drive before hand, and I don't think it was frost. The inside of all the windows and windscreen was frost free (-3ish outside). There was no snow when I parked up on Thursday evening, but it did snow Friday.

Nothing on the dash.

Now I thought it might have fallen in when I opened the drivers door (to get my scraper), so I cleaned the other doors, and surround roof area and sides before opening. The boot floor (estate) just has a light "twinkle" from my head headlamp apart halfway into the boot, The worst effected was my drivers seat, and the rear passenger seat.

I wondered if a dodgy door seal might have let it in, and some strange wind currents could have blown it around a bit (maybe for the passenger side and boot of the car.

Some snow pictures:

GPS receiver keeping the windscreen warm

Edited 28 November, 201015 yr by mbames

Mine usually dumps a handful on the drivers seat unless I remember to wipe of over the door edge, was you'res a dump or dusting ??

Mine was a dusting around most of the car, with a bit more of a dump around the drivers seat (but I had not cleared the drivers door, so expected a potential dump, but not convinced there really was a "dump" into the car).

I too had a dusting the other day, and a wet bum after it all fell in the car. this is the first car that i've owned that does this