Hi all, looking for anything to help please, passenger footwell soaking problem. I have been and completed every item in the search function on here to no avail eg sat in it with hose pipe on roof, been underneath, door and window seals all good but am stuck now !!!!

One thing I did find was a straightened out safety pin under carpet by centre console.

PS. Who's stupid idea to put split in carpet behind font seat bolts ?

Diolch ar fawr If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Have you checked the air conditioning drains. They are at floor level beside the centre console behind the carpet.

Yes bob, removed sides of console and located the driver side pipe and grommet all good and it's only passenger side wet
Doing my head in, I have noticed the amount of crap between windscreen and plastic tray where wipers are fitted but the hose pipe test would have shown that up.

Thanks for quick reply too. If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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BossBob wrote:

Have you checked the air conditioning drains. They are at floor level beside the centre console behind the carpet.

No A/C drain passenger side. FL2 2014. If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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how about the roof rail mounting points the very front one can let wet in
is the bottom of the windscreen sealing tight too. DAVE.

Hi Dave, just on the windscreen moulding now but having trouble getting wiper off, too bloody short to reach to give it a tug but there looks like a load of mud/moss and dirt under there and it's definitely pushed out. If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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There are drains in the moulding near the top of the wing that go under the bonnet they always collect moss etc.

While you're on the windscreen scuttle.... if the join between the glass and the scuttle isn't very good, or the funnel water catcher (under scuttle) isn't in properly behind your battery, you can get water running down the firewall, and into the cabin air intake. A damp cabin filter would be only sign where it's getting in, and wouldn't show up straight away on a hosepipe test.

SYFL2 wrote:

There are drains in the moulding near the top of the wing that go under the bonnet they always collect moss etc.

Grue wrote:

While you're on the windscreen scuttle.... if the join between the glass and the scuttle isn't very good, or the funnel water catcher (under scuttle) isn't in properly behind your battery, you can get water running down the firewall, and into the cabin air intake. A damp cabin filter would be only sign where it's getting in, and wouldn't show up straight away on a hosepipe test.

The only way i could get mine back together properly was to separate the trim and the scuttle, then fit the trim to the glass first nice and tight. Then the scuttle into the trim.

Thanks for input, I've had the whole scuttle out and cleaned moss and other crap from between hard plastic trim and scuttle also from between trim and glass after putting it all back there does seem a gap between glass and trim???

Ah the MOSS problem , now that's an issue that harks back to the days of series L/Rs  DAVE.

Last edited by Dave47 on 1st Mar 2025 4:30 pm. Edited 1 time in total

Plenty here if you want some Dave 😁😉

All fitted back in situ. but slight gap there see how it goes centre scuttle drains blocked solid didn't even know they were there!!!



Did find lots of rust on metal plate and to side by battery tray but that's another day.

Still can't find any drain piping loose.

Great help here cheers all. If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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