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Thread: Water, drivers side footwell... From car?!

  1. 1st February 2014, 12:35 PM #1
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    Water, drivers side footwell... From car?!

    Hi all,
    driving around today, pretty toasty at 39...
    So naturally I am basking in the full glory of my AC.

    Anyhow, got home after approximately a 30 min drive, with two stop offs (Engine off for twenty min on one occasion, and waiting in stationary line for 5 min at another).

    And notice my thong is wet when i put it on,
    upon further inspection there seems to be a leak coming from behind the dash in the middle. carpet is soaked, and its not in the passengers side.


    Now the car is still hot, so I havent had a chance to check overflow for rad.
    But the temp did not creep up at all up a long hill, constantly under load, just before getting home.


    The only things that I have done differently were install a headunit yesterday, and put what I pressume to be the air recirculator button on (next to the AC)...



    Any ideas of where I should start to look??
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  2. 1st February 2014, 12:40 PM #2
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    Is it coolant or cold water? If cold water it would be the A/C drain tube blocked or fallen off.
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  3. 1st February 2014, 12:50 PM #3
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    It appears to be cold water, it is cool to touch now. But have been home for a little bit. Certainly no noticeable hot water on my feet while driving.

    Still a bit of pressure in the rad hose, so still waiting for it to cool a little more before taking overflow cap off.



    im really hoping its AC drain tube... as I can handle that.
    Coolant loss may just ruin my day


    edit 2 - no coolant loss... happy!

    edit - no sunroof either!
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  4. 1st February 2014, 01:23 PM #4
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    Thanks for steering me in the right direction bigjon

    Crawled under the car, found drainage points, cleared with trusty bic pen, ****tonne of water came out the drivers side, none out of passengers...


    Hopefully problem solvered, heres hoping for a non mouldy smelling disco
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  5. 1st February 2014, 04:47 PM #5
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    Worth pulling the carpet and felt up and checking for rust - my second hand D1 had this issue and as a result has rust holes where the floor meets the firewall.
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  6. 1st February 2014, 10:31 PM #6
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    My d1 v8 did the same thing both drain tubes were blocked with mud.
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  7. 3rd February 2014, 08:48 PM #7
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    i though my land rover was just marking me as a possession!!, used to get wet trouser legs for no reason when ac was blasting, turn a corner, get pee'd on!

    will check the drains now....
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