Hello

A newbie From Derbyshire, got a nice 09 100HP on Monday, have already milked the goat due to wet drivers footwell and advice on here. loving the car, was actually laughing when i got out of it yesterday.

Tim

Welcome to the FIAT forums Tim.
I'm sure you'll find lots of good stuff here

with the bonnet up check the area under the windscreen isn't full of water.


Its fairly common for the drain points to get blocked



Ah now get the milk the goat comment

I take its nice clear, odourless water and not greasy coolant


glad its all sorted.


I wouldn't recommend it but I removed the duck bills as they had gone hard

It was, unblocked them yesterday, and have vacuumed out about 2 litres of water from footwell this morning

Looked like plain water albeit dirty brown from carpet etc. Coolant level has not gone down. Going to get it valeted now.

One of the best valeting tools I have is a VAX wet/dry vacuum cleaner (not the upright type!) it's saved my seats (and house) from many disasters over the years and its over twenty years old and still going!
I regularly wash the removable floor-mats and, using the small washing head on it which is only about 4" wide, I can make lines in the mat - rather like a stripey lawn. And they dry like it - looks quite cool

You just reminded me. My wife has just borrowed one of those for the house carpets...

I shall requisition it.

A Vax wet vac saved our bed when the cat emptied a horse sized bladder's worth of wee onto it. We chucked the cat outside, whipped off the duvet etc but cat wee was already into the (nearly new) mattress. I sucked it out with the Vax liberally sprayed biological washing powder and water solution over the area constantly sucking it out with the Vax. Finished with fresh water.

The mattress survived unscathed, The cat was banished back to family the farm and the Vaz for evermore smelled of cat wee so was relegated to the garage. An excellent tool it must be said.

Plain water leaking onto a Panda floor will be those Duck Bills. The one on driver's side is hidden behind AIr Con pipes. The other is easier to see.

DaveMcT said:

...the cat emptied a horse sized bladder's worth of wee onto it..

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