Hi all

I'm hoping the forum can help suggest any non-obvious causes to damp driver's feet in my Octavia Series 2 Scout.

I say non-obvious because the obvious cause is the sun roof drain, which I have had fixed on the passenger side. I'll get this done for the driver's side, and you know, while you're down there... etc, thus the question.

 

I was wondering if there are, in your experience, other reasonably common possibilities like windscreen seal, firewall seals, seals around the manual gearbox tunnel, windscreen drains, those sorts of thing that I need to chase down.

 

Any thoughts would be welcome. 

 

Cheers

JM

Could be the Aircon evaporator drain is blocked, console side carpet panel off, drain tube at bottom, check blow through with compressed air.

 

Give my regards to Carla 😜

Yes, we'd all like to give our regards to Carla

I thought I'd follow up with a bit of feedback on the water leak problem.

 

My mechanic (Phil at Autobahn Diagnostics) reckons that the heat in Australia shrinks the plastic drainage pipes, that take water from the sun roof cassette to grommets near the front door lower hinges, and then out of the car. As the pipes shrink, they pull away from the grommet/seal thing. When next it rains, the water finds its way into the floor pan in the front.

 

 

In wet markets i.e. the UK, a number of MkII Octavia's suffered from inadequate drainage of the rubber door seals.

 

They'd fill with rain water, then when you opened the door the seal would expand allowing the rain water to fill the lower parts of the seal. When closing the door the seal would be compressed forcing the water out and over or under the plastic sill onto the footwell carpet.

 

I'm guessing that unless you're in Melbourne this is unlikely to be an issue for you though...