I have read a few other threads about how adept Barchettas are at replicating swimming pools. Mine is now trying to do that in a big way. As well as having the ability to keep goldfish in the tonneau compartment I now have soggy feet and a rotting drivers footwell.
I have sorted out the tonneau, but the footwell is a bigger problem. It seems that the drain behind the door is partially blocked. When I pour water down the hole, some comes out where it is supposed to and some appears to run along the sill and come out behind the front wheel. I think this is what is causing the soaking footwell.
Not only is it rather wet down there, the plastic floorpan covering is rotting away where my heels rest, even though I have a mat. I am going to remove the rear wheel arch cover and try and clear the drain pipe from below as neither compressed air or rodding has cleared it from the top. I have found details for replacing the whole floorpan thing, but I was wondering if there was a less demanding/expensive means of resolving.
I was thinking about cutting out the damaged plastic as well as the sodden foam underneath. Replacing the foam and then covering in some kind of glue on plastic before sticking aluminium mats down.
http://www.barchettaparts.com/catal...duct&filter_name=aluminium mat&product_id=649
Any thoughts/suggestions much appreciated. I am not a big mechanic type, but am happy to have a go at things that ain't too mechanical/electical.
This is the first of a few questions I will be posting, but this is the urgent one as I don't want the floorpan to start rotting as winter comes along.
I have sorted out the tonneau, but the footwell is a bigger problem. It seems that the drain behind the door is partially blocked. When I pour water down the hole, some comes out where it is supposed to and some appears to run along the sill and come out behind the front wheel. I think this is what is causing the soaking footwell.
Not only is it rather wet down there, the plastic floorpan covering is rotting away where my heels rest, even though I have a mat. I am going to remove the rear wheel arch cover and try and clear the drain pipe from below as neither compressed air or rodding has cleared it from the top. I have found details for replacing the whole floorpan thing, but I was wondering if there was a less demanding/expensive means of resolving.
I was thinking about cutting out the damaged plastic as well as the sodden foam underneath. Replacing the foam and then covering in some kind of glue on plastic before sticking aluminium mats down.
http://www.barchettaparts.com/catal...duct&filter_name=aluminium mat&product_id=649
Any thoughts/suggestions much appreciated. I am not a big mechanic type, but am happy to have a go at things that ain't too mechanical/electical.
This is the first of a few questions I will be posting, but this is the urgent one as I don't want the floorpan to start rotting as winter comes along.
It's why I never take mine out in the wet.
