How To Diagnose Why Your Car's Foot Well Is Wet & How To Prevent Interior Leaks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- ►Noticing some water stains on the carpet or headliner of your car? Wondering whether or not that means you have a leak? Or do you even have a wet floor in your car?
Kyle Bascombe, our Mercedes catalog manager, is here with a Tech Tip on how to spot and prevent leaks into the interior of your vehicle. From sunroof drains to windshield cowls, we go through all of the potential issues that can arise and how to prevent them.
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Best tips I can give.
Get yourself some fluorescent water dye (used for tanker leaks and pools)
Start by going around the drains for the vehicles dumping water (with dye) directly into the drains
Check the inside with a UV light.
Always takes me less than 20 minutes to find the leak point.
Last vehicle I did a check on the dealer had the car for 4 days and couldn't figure out where the leak was coming from told the owner it was the windshield and just make an insurance claim.
Took me 10 minutes to find the hood cable came out of a retainer clip which took the grommet out of the firewall (directly below the windshield drain on the driver side) water just followed the cable directly into the cabin and dripped into the driver side footwell.
Some great tips there Michael! Maybe we will make a follow up video showing that process, appreciate the insight!
...and the best part of the video is that those advices can be used for every brand, not only Europeans, Thanks guys, stay safe
Very true jamdc2000! Universal
Kyle thanks again for sharing those tips about taking care of your car. Blessings and Love 💕 always
Kyle is always one of the most helpful guys around - happy to share his knowledge with you all!
Would also like to point out that a wet footwell in a manual transmission car near the pedals is likely a sign of a leaking master cylinder. Also, on BMW E39 sometimes water can pour out onto your feet after long drives with the AC on. Blow your ac drain lines out.
best tip, clean the leaves when you see it and save yourself from a big hassle of changing damaged wiring loom
Simple but effective preventative maintenance ^.^
My car has accumulated water in the foot rest well in the passengers rear side i cleaned all the car from leaves and debris in any of the entry holes in the sunroof and windshields. The issue is that while cleaning some leaves might have fallen inside the drain pipe i don't know if they got stuck in the bottom. How can I take them out? Also can you kindly please show us all the drain holes of the car ? Right now the water is still standing under the carpet and i can't take it out . The biggest issue is that the bottom drains are clogged and the water won't come out. !
Thanks!
2000 BMW 750iL water is collecting in the rear driver's side footwell. Can't seem to determine how it's getting in. When we recently had the headliner out to recover it we checked all sunroof drains and hose and everything was good. So how is the water getting in to just that one particular area?
Wear a nappy..solved