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Jan 20, 2004 | 12:47 AM

Chunky1

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Please help!!

I have a 1999.5 model a4. I have just noticed that the rear drivers side footwell is soaking wet (please bear in mind that the car and i are English and so my drivers side is your passenger side). Where the hell is the water coming from?!!

There was no water there in the morning when i parked at work yesterday, didnt move the car all day, then when i whent to chuck some stuff in the back when i left work there was a puddle in the footwell.

At first i thought i had left a window down but the seats would have been wet - they are not. I cant see that its got anything to do with the door but i reckon it must be. Last week i had my stereo installed and so they would have pulled the trim apart for running cables, plus i had the windows tinted. But the bottom of the door isnt wet. Ive got rubber backed mats on top of the cars carpet. On top of the mats is another layor of carpet. This top mat layor of carpet is not wet at all.

Someone has told me to check the underside bungs, but i hadnt driven through any especially deep puddles in the morning, then like i said the car stood still for 9 hours after!

Please help as i am truely p****d off

Jan 20, 2004 | 01:34 AM

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check where the installers ran the power wire for the stereo.

Thats where my leak was. Just silicone around the power wires.

Jan 20, 2004 | 03:36 AM

Chunky1

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You is da king!!

just been out for another look at it cos it was bothering me, and found that the carpet in my footwell was wet as well! So that made me think straight away - power cable through the bulk head.

Popped the bonnet, found the wire- sure enough the thick b******s had pulled the gromit from the bonnet release cable and wedged the power cable through and is letting the water run into my car!!

was just logging back on to say id found it when i read your answer - so thanks as you've reasured me that is the problem. Time to get the sealent out me thinks!!

Jan 20, 2004 | 03:53 AM

Thorsholm A4 tdi

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that happened to me a while ago

on my car water leaked in through the coupe airfilter

Jan 20, 2004 | 06:43 AM

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Hahaha. You can tell he's English 'cause he said "Gromit"

Gromit is Wallace's dog. The round washer thing is a grommet...

Love that series, though.

Jan 20, 2004 | 06:57 AM

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Lazy B*stards

Can't believe ICE installers would be that lazy. What am I saying? That is truly bodgy.

Jan 20, 2004 | 11:40 AM

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WOW!!!!... that EXACT same thing happend to me....(more inside)

except i was the one who installed my stereo... After about an hour looking for a place to run the power wire i finally found the hole for the hood release cable and decided to run it through there....

I did the job during the summer so there were no probs until the first day it rained hard... i couldnt figure out why there was such a big pool of water for the longest time i checked everything.. finally i traced the leak to my lazy install....

just thought it was weird someone else had the same leak for the same reason.. goes to show the easy way is hardly ever the best way

later