Hi Folks, I’ve put 410,000 km on my 2.0TDi Scout Manual driving all over Australia. Even last weekend was a small 1500km drive.

As usual, not a single problem….until I hot home.

2 inches of water in the passenger side footwell.

I know this is a blocked condensate drain, and I know how to clear a blocked drain safely, but I can’t find the external outlet.

The Scout has the full underbody protection kit. Is the sumpguard covering the drain?

My car is RHD, so the blower fan is in the left(passenger) side.

That is where the water is coming from (ie from beneath the glove box).

I have read that the drain is on the “drivers side”, but I’m not sure if this is for LHD or RHD.

Any advice, or better yet, photos, would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers (and sorry about the Ashes!)

Not sure I to thought it was on the drivers side. Have you checked coolant level in case its the heater matrix?

Alasdair

Thanks for reply, but I’m confused…Coolant level affects heater matrix? And makes water in footwell?

Not heard of this before; can you enlighten me?

If the heater matrix fails it can leak coolant into footwell. Happend to my sons fabia. Not sure on the Octavia but on his the matrix started leaking at the metal join that the rubber hoses connect to at the matrix itself

Alasdair

It’s not pink, so I don’t think it’s got any coolant in it.

It’s very humid here at the moment (January in Brisbane, Australia) and very hot, so AC is on all the time. It’s still cooling beautifully, but is producing gallons of condensate which is pouring into the floor.

I can’t see any water coming out underneath the Occy, so I’m pretty sure the drain is clogged.

But because I can’t see the drips, I don’t know where the drain is.

Instructions for checking internal hose below. Passenger side. (LHD shown, I expect, though diagram makes little sense to me as a non-owner). Mirror everything.

Edited 11 January11 Jan by Breezy_Pete