Front Footwell Carpet Wet?

[Joe G]

Went out to the car today to find that the carpets in the front footwells were wet. The drivers side more than the passenger side.

Not sure what it is as I've not had a chance to investigate it.

I have checked the coolant level and all seems to be fine there (well as far as i can see). My first thought was that it might be the heater matrix but not sure exactly where its located.

Another thing i thought of was the water pipe from the intercooler water spray tank in the boot could be leaking. Does anyone know which side of the car this runs down before i start ripping the interior apart

Any ideas guys??????

Cheers Joe

[micra_wrc]

mine did that and traced the source to a leaky boot!

water was getting in around the rear lights and ran along the bottom of the car and formed a puddle in the driver footwell

(as well as inside my space saver and the wee cubby hole where the jack goes)

i've got a classic tho

[Joe G]

Thanks imy, I'll check out the boot in the morning.

[wilky]

Is your car a spec c Joe? and if it is, and the water tank for the intercooler spray is in the boot, it may be worth checking and seeing if the pipe work runs through the car and if its leaking.

Callum W

[mystery machine]

I would've said a door seal... but wouldn't have thought that would affect both sides...

[Joe G]

Is your car a spec c Joe? and if it is, and the water tank for the intercooler spray is in the boot, it may be worth checking and seeing if the pipe work runs through the car and if its leaking.

Callum W

Yeah its a spec c. Gonna check the piping from the intercooler waterspray tank in the morning. Managed to borrow a ramp in at Rooney's garage in the morning for my oils change so will check everything then. Cheers for offering to help with the oil change Callum, just unfortunate you got called away when i was off the ship in aberdeen.

The drivers footwell is the wetter than the passenger one so could be the door seal i suppose. Whill add that to the checks in the morning!!

Joe

[Joe G]

After checking all the door, boot, light seals, rubber gromits from the collision bulkhead, intercooler water spray line. I lifted the front footwell carpets to find that there were 2 small holes in each front wheel arch where someone had previously removed mudflaps. With the carpets lifted you could clearly see that water and dirt had been coming in through the holes.

Stuck some silicone in them and dried the carpets out with the missus' hairdryer and all looks good.

Hopefully this has cured the problem

[Spaceman]

Bolloxs i have this to will have to sort well remebered that man Cheers grieg