Hi all,

 

Happy Christmas and hope you all have a good night tonight.

 

Along with others it seems my drivers side rear footwell has been becoming reminisent of an excellent pool party.

 

After reading a bunch of posts, the scuttle was my first port of call. Cleared out all the leaves, re-sealed the filter and gromits. I then cleared out the front wheel wells which were growing tomatoes.

 

I dried out the footwell and thought it was job done, but over night the rear has filled again!

 

Struggling to find the source, as it does seem to be only the rear footwell, and not coming from anywhere else (all areas around the drivers seat and dash are dry).

 

I removed some trim and found this lovely pool of water, inbetween the seat and door, above the foot well. This appears to be filling up then emptying into the foot well.

 

 

What I can't work out is where it is filling from. When I follow the bodywork up from this point it all looks dry.

 

Any suggestions?

This is more than likely caused by damaged (or missing) membranes in the doors.  Remove the door cards and check the membrane is intact and sealed along the bottom edge.

I agree. The plastic membrane lets water through. It then gets under that piece of trim in the pic and settles in the foot well. When I took my door card off and poured water down the glass outside I was shocked how much water gets on there. And little wonder why people have so muchtrouble with door electrics.

Thanks Guys,

 

Whipped off the door card, and the membrane seems to be intact.

 

 

Haven't tried pouring water down though. Will do that now.

Right, poured a few pints over the exterior glass. Virtually nothing came down inside the door.

 

The few drips that did seem to be contained within the door fine.

 

Couldn't see any evidence of the seal being breached. :think:

Edited 31 December, 201312 yr by JSme

Which door?  Front or back?

 

The floor pan slopes towards the rear of the car, so it could be a front one which is failing....  If you extract all of the seatbelt, does any of it feel damp?

Rear door.

 

Seat belt seems fine. My car is parked on a slope though, so it could be running from somewhere else into that groove above the footwell.

 

Sounds like I need a dry day, a willing volunteer (my fiancee) and a hose!

The floor pan slopes towards the rear of the car, so it could be a front one which is

failing.... If you extract all of the seatbelt,

does any of it feel damp?

That's a good shout. You would think its one of the membranes for the water to be that high up.

It's the sunroof!

 

Just tested it throughly with a hose, nothing comes through when spraying on the front or back doors.

 

As soon as we spray the sunroof it bloomin rains in through here at an alarming rate:

 

 

This is behind the rear seat, seems to be coming down the pillar!

 

 

Ok, so

 

Stripped the trim so I could pull down the corner of the headlining.

 

I could then see the back corner drain for the sunroof. I doubt you could see it without loosening the headlining.

 

I sprayed some water on the sunroof and could see the drain tube dripping where the blue hose joins a white connector, which then connects the metal drain.

 

So I siliconed up this joint, then PTE, then some gaffer to be sure.

 

Then re-sprayed to find the joint being fixed, but water was now coming over the top of the drain, I felt around and there was a weird little nut in there, blocking it all up!

 

So joint resealed and nut removed, I dried everything and checked again, all sorted and draining nicely out of the wheel well.

 

Phew, hopefully that's it sorted. Thanks chaps.

For reference there are 4 drainage points on the sunroof.  Both A-pillars and out out the back (in line to where the 6 disk CD changer is mounted (blue pipe).  If you open then sunroof and gently tip some water into the rails you can see where it dribbles out onto the ground.

I have wet drivers seatbelt symptoms with a vrs hatchback - no sunroof

 

 

any likely cause for that? does it have drainage tubes?

door membranes likely source.

i know my door membranes are fine, carpet is all bone dry, just seatbelt gets damp