I got in my car today to find a puddle of water in my passenger footwell, anyone on here know what it could be as i need to fix asap to stop it happening again?
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Important! : puddle of water in passenger footwell
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#2Dear Saxo-vtr-1994,
Firstly, ( stupid question ) is it rainwater or coolant ( antifreeze is sweet to the taste ) ?
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#3Rainwater I think. Doesn't smell like coolant
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#4Dear Saxo-vtr-1994,
Thanks for your kind reply
What you may want to try is drying the footwell first, completly. and then you can dry off the outside of your car including the passenger door shut area and under the bonnet on the passenger side inner wing area and also dry off the front passenger side front windscreen area and also under the bonnet passenger side bulkhead area and also the scuttle panel area too.
Secondly, ( this is where most people go wrong, is NOT to blast the living daylights of outside of your car with a steam cleaner or a power washer. ) what you need to do is to go around the part of your car that is leaking in rainwater, with a fairy liquid bottle of water and squirt it in the places, like passenger side bulkhead area. What you need to do is start off squirting your fairy liquid bottle full of water at the lowest point on your car ( best to have someone else sitting in the car with a lead light looking for leaks ) and then once are sure that you have ruled out ALL the low, only then should you take your search higher.
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#5this happened to mine and it was the windscreen seal. i got it repaired under warranty so cant advise how much and stuff.
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#6It's either a windscreen seal or the sunroof drain tube. Check the top left windscreen pillar, if it's damp, its a drain tube. Relatively an easy fix. If it is that, i can walk you through it as i've done a few.