Technical Water in rear passenger side footwell!

Currently reading:
Technical Water in rear passenger side footwell!

RickF

Shell V-Power FTW
Joined
Sep 22, 2007
Messages
82
Points
21
Location
Bristol
I see lots of threads about water in the front passenger footwell but not the back.

Its like some ones poured a 2ltr bottle of water onto the carpet!!

I guess its probably a hole in the floor, but haven't had time to check.

Just thought I'd ask if theres anywhere else the water could have come from i.e. if it could have ran off from one place to where its ended up?

Thanks for any pointers!
 
Interesting.. How does it get from rear light to footwell?
 
Through the holes behind the light cluster?

What's the fix for that as that could well be the issue.
 
Just pulled up carpet. Effing stinks!

Can't see any flow from boot area to footwell. Couldn't see a hole but only had a quick look.

There was a bit of water under passenger seat... Tiny pool in the corner by window
 
all pointers to floor water drain holes being blocked
these are literally cuts in the floorpan
you need to carefully open these up or you will rot the floor out
wet feet in the car can cause build up of this water
you really need to take the sound deadening out though and hang it up to drip dry too
 
Have the same problem myself

Had a look in the boot and no wetness there
No wetness under rear seats
no leaks for rear windows

I'm stumped as to where its getting in though,Haven't had time to pull up the carpet for a look but its on my to do list for the weekend
 
Let me know what you find. I'm gonna have a better look this afternoon. My boot leaks and I'm suspect of the seals on light cluster. Effing car!
 
Hmm. It may be the rear light cluster letting water in.. Behind where the bolts are that hold the cluster on is just condensation.
 
There's a lot of water at the very front of the footwell, ie where you feet would be it you put them all the way forward if sat in the back. But that may be cus of the water locked up in the sound deadening.

Where abouts is this aircon pipe too?

Can't see any holes in floor
 
Drove through any deep puddles in the last rain? There's a rubber bung with a cable hardness running from the engine bay through the firewall into the passenger footwell. If it's dislodged or perished it will allow water through when driving through deep puddles.

I had this problem when I used it to run a power cable for an audio AMP.
 
my driver side footwell is abit damp aswel guys dont really fancy ripping up the carpets incase i cant put them back properly lol
 
Nope I mainly use the car to nip up the nearby A road to and from college. No off-roading or country lanes lol.

The carpets are quite easy to get under and put back. Given I've not fully taken them up, that would take some work.. but take our rear seat hinges, seat belt bolt and plastic trim that runs along the car. Simples.

Its looking to be an issue with the backend of the car for sure. The front is bone dry.
The boot is very damp and of coarse the passenger footwell is soaked.

The electrical issues (when they got worse the other day) was due to a loose earth, which was my bad.. I didn't tighten it up enough after removing an old earth cable i used for my amp.. :bang: I completely forgot I even did it, and noticed it whilst poking around in the boot today.

The dreaded steering fail is now showing, its done so on and off since I owned it, but never shows when reading it with OBD.

Next question, can you connect a code reader to the OBD when the engine is in? My unit says not to, but I swear I've seen people connect/disconnect them with the engine on. As the light goes off when I turn it off and back on, until I drive it again it may decide to come on again by which time the OBD is no longer connected.

I'm getting someone who I remembered works for fiat to find the leak as I'm lost.
 
Back
Top