wet footwell?

[Jmac]

Do you have half a clue what you are talking about?

I had a 98 Cabrio and it never leaked a drop through the roof & it was the daily driver in all weather including storms that dumped 300mm in an hour. The car was a watertight as a fishes bum.

It is not normal for condensation from an AC unit to leak onto your feet. In Sydney, with our humid weather, the AC will condense about a litre of water every 10-15 minutes. Having this in the footwells is not a good idea.

OP: keep looking. As I said, take out the fan assembly & have a poke around the drain hose/s(?). None of what is happening is normal or acceptable.
My 98 didn't have a pollen filter - IIRC the inlet for the AC is up on the plenum under the plastic on the passengers side.

Try up here in Brissy mate, Had an A4 and a Porsche Cayenne had a cockroach stuck in the drain tube, audi was bad, but the cayenne was drenched, caned all the ecus on the floor, doesnt take much. What i did find on the Cayenne was that the drain was virtually flush with the bulkhead thus draining back into the vehicle. I fitted an extension hose to the drain and it started to drian externally pretty well. Blocked AC drain has ate many ecus up here in the subtropics
Jmac

[The_Hawk]

I had an Hyundai Elantra that managed to catch a rock in the drain tube which caused the water to build up behind the dash, then run out onto your feet (and you could always hear water sloshing in the dash). The guys at the shop found the problem, removed the rock and all the water ran out... Problem solved.

Can you feel rushing fluid... I mean hear

[sparkie]

"caned all the ecus on the floor"

WTF were Porsche doing designing a car with electronics on the floor? Please tell me it was not a convertible? of course no self respecting Porsche owner would let their blessed car get wet inside would they?

Sorry bit of a hijack

[brad]

"caned all the ecus on the floor"

WTF were Porsche doing designing a car with electronics on the floor? Please tell me it was not a convertible? of course no self respecting Porsche owner would let their blessed car get wet inside would they?

Sorry bit of a hijack

Porsche Cayenne are those pig-ugly SUVs they make. Obviusly not designed for fording a river.

[andy t]

sorted.....
took the car to camden gti and the boys in the shop showed me the drain hole in the firewall, opened the rubber plug and woosh out came the water.
no more drips on the feet and after running the heater for a while no more wet carpet. the glovebox is back in and everything is back to normal.
after recommendation I also had the the aircon disenfected/deoderised.
job done.
thanks for your help guys.

[brad]

sorted.....
took the car to camden gti and the boys in the shop showed me the drain hole in the firewall, opened the rubber plug and woosh out came the water.
no more drips on the feet and after running the heater for a while no more wet carpet. the glovebox is back in and everything is back to normal.
after recommendation I also had the the aircon disenfected/deoderised.
job done.
thanks for your help guys.

no,no - water all over the carpet is perfectly normal

You went from Freshwater to Campbelltown? Very keen. When? I work at Campbelltown (should call into see the Camden GTI boys one day)

[andy t]

I phoned camden gti just for a chat and was diagnosed as a dodgy heater core and was told to bring the car in to bypass the dash saving the floor and carpet.

I was expecting to pay 900ish bucks for the core replacement.
once the boys saw the car they new exactly what to do.

what a relief.

it was a long way but well worth it.

drip free motoring at last

[gldgti]

Do you have half a clue what you are talking about?

clearly not. guess i'm an idiot.

for anyone interested, i wasnt talking about the normal condensation that occurs (that seems to drain externally just fine on my mk3) but condensation that was actually occuring on a different area inside the car.

i believe it had something to do with a high moisture loading inside my car, and nowhere near 1l/min - more like 1 drop/min

[brad]

clearly not. guess i'm an idiot.

Cool, we'll make you Prime Minister

[gldgti]

no thanks, i'm fine as i am.

mind you, you were to make me prime minister, i might enforce mantatory lessons in manners and tact.

[brad]

no thanks, i'm fine as i am.

mind you, you were to make me prime minister, i might enforce mantatory lessons in manners and tact.

I'd fail

[sparkie]

well I am happy for you, andy t, that you have sorted the problem out, but perhaps someone could help me out in a way that helps us all out! I have the same problem, air con freezing up, wet footwell, rotten smell in carpet. I have emptied the pollen filter, etc, I have put the car over the gutter and tried to find the pipe from the air con which is doubtless blocked and I cannot. So can someone please describe or take a picture as to where the pipe is so that I can find it? That way we all get to sort our problem out which I sort of thought was what forums are about!! I have stripped back the carpet inside and there is nothing obvious there, I have prised off all the drainage and other blanks under the car, and I can spot where the air con pipes go through the bulkhead, so I am some way there. Many thanks.

[Bora Sport]

Where are you. I am sure that I can help. I have had this problem in my VR6, The Vento and the Seat. It is a 5 second fix usually. Pm me if you like. I am up near Noosa.

[sparkie]

Thanks to Bora Sport for giving me a call I have found the drain hole, which for the record on a Mk3 Tdi is not visible from the top of the car or from underneath. What you have to do is gt under the car and pull out the felt sound-proofing (which may be a diesel only thing) and you will find the drain flap just above the steering rack on the firewall, from the top, the flexible hydraulic pipe from the clutch passes just in front of it. It took me ages to find it. The only trouble is that it was bone dry even after poking wire up it. So I assumed the pipe had been disconnected inside the car somewhere, I looked on here to see if there were any pictures, and found nothing. So I went looking. I stripped out the glovebox - 5 screws- pulled down the foam barrier under it (three plastic screws) and found a large black plastic box which has the heating system inside it, and there is clearly a pipe running from the back of tis to the firewall, and its all part of the hard black plastic box so nothing has got disconnected at all. So where is the water in the rear passenger footwell coming from? I've left everything open to see soo watch this space! I've taken pictures, but uploading them here is such a drag, PM me if you want them!

[Golf Loon]

Sparkie your water is either a buggered heater matrix, or leaking front or rear door seals.