Hi guys,

ok so my car became flooded i dunno how a couple of weeks ago. only the left side thought. the carpet was all wet but not the seats and doors. I took all the seats out pretty much stripped the car and took out the carpet and let it dry. saw one tiny hole and patched it up with hot glue. Now this morning i jumped in my car today and relised wtf !!! the whole left side of my car is wet again. Not seats or doors or anything but jus the carpet. i dont understand anyone know where the leak could be coming from. Ive checked the whole front end. cant see any holes. Checked the back a little bit but not thoroughly. Dont really expect the water to be coming from the back anyways.

any help would be a plus, did a search and found a couple of things about peoples boots being wet but my boot is dry as. so didnt reallly help

have you installed a sound system? there is a grommit in the passenger side wheel arch that lets water in. if all else fails, pull carpet up again and get a friend to hose your car, and see where the water is comming from

The other ingress point is from the gutter to body seal usually somewhere over the front door.

Take the carpet back on the LHS.
First try with a hose on the dash and heater plenum side. If no problems. Then gently run water into the gap between the gutter mouldings and the body.
Start low down at windscreen level, have an observer inside with a torch and some kitchen towel. Carry on working back up the gutter until you are above the "B" pillar.
Had this problem on my AWD. Took ages to find. Water was getting past the gutter to body foam seal somewhere over the passenger door. It works round and comes out onto the little ledge that runs forward from the door opening towards the base of the "A" pillar.
Took the whole gutter assembly off after removing the door window weather-strip.
Dried every thing out and sealed with windscreen sealer. Problem gone.
Gerry

Mine had a leak very top left of the firewall. Had to pull blower and carpet and underlay off the firewall and reseal. Some small leakage still.

My solution (after it still leaked after sealing it a few months earlier) was to drill a few small holes in the lowest point of the floor of the passenger footwell. Now any water that gets under there just drips out. Ghetto I know but does the job.

Should also check your heater core to see if that is leaking.

Mine had a leak very top left of the firewall. Had to pull blower and carpet and underlay off the firewall and reseal. Some small leakage still.

My solution (after it still leaked after sealing it a few months earlier) was to drill a few small holes in the lowest point of the floor of the passenger footwell. Now any water that gets under there just drips out. Ghetto I know but does the job.

This is where mine was. Hopefully its fixed as of yesterday, I sealed it up from the outside under the front guard.

wow thanks for the replies guys,

was having a look, wen i ran the power cable up from my amp i forgot to glue the firewall up and thats where the water was definately coming from. sealed up now and used the hose test, dosnt leak at all.

many thanks :)

Does it go through a grommet and not just a hole? You dont want the edge of a drilled hole rubbing on the wire insulation and cutting through, it could short and start a fire.

This is where mine was. Hopefully its fixed as of yesterday, I sealed it up from the outside under the front guard.

How did you go about this? Did you have to remove any panels? Should probably fix it properly :)

Will get some pics when I find the camera, I sealed it all from the outside so it wouldn't build up water anywhere, it was right on the corner inside a hole that water runs down off the corner of the windscreen, under what looks like a box section of metal on the car. Had to take off the wheel guard, and the bumper and plastic underneath was supposed to come off first I think but I somehow got it off without doing that.

I have this problem too! my car was parked downhill for about a week during the huge amount of rain, and I got in it today to take it to get a RWC (just been sold) and there was about FOUR LITRES of water in the passenger footwell. I had run a cable for an amp about a year ago and it never happened during that time - after the cable was removed did this occur.

Anyway, I had to rip all of the underlay out so it can dry, and I found the grommet that I had removed for the cable and put it back in. The grommet was on the left side of the car, going into the wheel-arch. It was at about the same height up the firewall as the glovebox.

Now there is another hole I can see under the carpet that is in the perfect spot to get the water there too I think I will cover that hole. Obviously I won't use foam fill because that would completely block the water channel and I'm guessing water would find its way into other places through the dash. This hole is about where your toes would be on your left foot (front passenger side), but not on the horizontal part of the floor. It is slightly upwards, but not as far up as the glovebox.

By the way when I first saw the water i carefully drove to the local car wash and used the vacuum there to suck up all the excess. it was easily powerful enough to dry the carpet, but not the underlay. gosh this is an essay

It def wasn't the heater core for me - definitely tasted like water and not ethyl glycol!