Thread: Water on drivers side, rust in firewall

I recently had a similar leakage issue, every time it rained I was greeted by a soaking wet carpet on the drivers side
I knew mine has a replacement screen fitted at some point, so out came the hose and gave all around the screen a good soaking but nothing made it inside, I decided to strip out the I side kick panel and have a look and could see where the water was tracking.
It was flowing from the grommet for the door wiring, so I sprayed water around the door opening and could see the water tracking through the bundled cables and dripping at quite a rate, it turned out that water was getting in at the seal around the door check strap, so I sealed this up with a bit of sikaflex and have had dry carpets since.
Worth checking if you can't find an obvious leak, although you may have a more serious issue if you have a rust hole?

Will check that out thanks. The rust was missed in a rwc inspection and the inspector is liable to fix it. He seems happy to do the repairs so I will wait and see on that one.

I have had soaking wet carpets in drivers side every time it rains and for ages there after too. Rust hole quite large near the bonnet hinge and several other smaller ones forming in that general vicinity.
I have chipped off all the flaky rust and applied rust converter and bogged up the holes and it hasn't rained since!!!
But I am 100% certain that is why my carpets were wet, under the rust hole is the dash foam and plastic backing and then straight into the cab. I am also missing the windscreen mould from the right side which deflects water away from pooling on that firewall area. This was missing long before I bought the car so I'd say excess water has been sitting there for years causing the problem. Unfortunately to buy that plastic part is like $150 odd dollars...so I have done some makeshift water channeling using the ever popular grey duct tape!

There has been so much water get into the gizzards of my dash that sometimes when I accelerate or brake I can hear it sloshing around somewhere under there. Never dug in deep enough to find where it is pooling though.