Hi guys,

 

Been a while since I posted. Octavia 2002 2.0l automatic has been brilliant despite its age. Daily drive to work and weekend drives.

 

I have been busy polishing my car with G3 the last couple of weekends.

Used a lot of water to rinse this stuff off and just noticed the drivers side floor is all wet.

 

Leaked in somewhere. Used a lot of water around the front windscreen and bonnet area with the hose and gun. I obviously flooded the drain holes and it leaked in somewhere

 

Where would it have got in? All door seals are totally dry and like new.

 

Thanks

Edited 17 May, 201511 yr by Brit24

Where the bonnet release cable goes through the bulkhead is a common place apparently. Blocked sunroof drains is another (if fitted). Hope that helps?

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Where the bonnet release cable goes through the bulkhead is a common place apparently. Blocked sunroof drains is another (if fitted). Hope that helps?

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Thanks I'll have a look at those areas

The external wash could be coincidental... so to eliminate the usual culprit dip a finger and taste... if sweet may be engine coolant ... heater matrix ? ... or do you own a dog ...

 

Alan.

The external wash could be coincidental... so to eliminate the usual culprit dip a finger and taste... if sweet may be engine coolant ... heater matrix ? ... or do you own a dog ...

 

Alan.

no pets to pee!

 

Water smells and tastes fresh. No sweet or musty water.

 

Coolant level has never dropped either.

If you were loosing coolant that much your low coolant light would be on.

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I spent a week sorting a leak where the bonnet release cable goes. Had to take carpets out as sound deadening was rotten. So I siliconed up from the inside as well as through the top.

Also remove the mud flap and clean the gunk out from behind. I noticed a lot of water getting in behind that too

I had similar issues last winter, turned out the leaves falling over autumn had blocked up my scuttle panel drains on both sides of the windscreen/bonnet.  Got those cleaned out and ran a dehumidifier for a couple of days and all was well.

well after weeks of searching where the water was getting in and flooding the drivers floor I finally found the culprit.

Before I had put silicon around the bonnet cable connection and cleaned out all the mud behind the wheel arch cover, and even swapped door seals.

after all this it flooded again after yesterdays rain!!!

 

Today I pulled back the carpet and started removing interior parts, got my wife to hose down the car while I inspected where the water was coming from.

I traced it back to the red rubber tube that drains the sunroof tray.

 

Had to remove parts and pull back part of the roof lining. Find some suitable cable/wire to start feeding it down the tube as it was full of water and totally blocked so it was backing up and dripping down the interior roof lining, down the door seal on the inside and then under the carpet!!!

 

After some poking around a big gush of dirty water and mud came out from the outlet down near the sill.

 

Will take some days to dry out - we're going away to Dublin by Ferry on Thursday so hope it won't be too smelly!! at least it's not leaking anymore and will finally dry out.

I know this may be a stupid question but are these drains present on a car with no sunroof?

 

I have a similar leak I'm trying to trace

No only fitted with factory sunroof.

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I know this may be a stupid question but are these drains present on a car with no sunroof?

I have a similar leak I'm trying to trace

had any work done on drivers door? Speakers locks etc? If you have and membrane was cut or removed that may be your source of woe if its not the cable grommet due to blocked scuttle panel drains

Hi, I've had door card off and it is all good on there, tested with hose and all

 

it is just my seatbelt that gets wet - I have sealed the roof rail is it looked like it had some small cracks but the problem keeps on coming

 

I think water is getting in somewhere on the b pillar - current suspect is the rear door hinge area, I think it may be weeping in there