Hi,
Bill Nickless wrote...
>In my ('85 Volkswagen Quantum) the rear passengers' side footwell floods.
>Interestingly, it seems to fill only when not driven. If I drive through
>heavy rains it's OK, but leaving it outside in a drizzle guarantees a flood.
>I'd be interested in things to check as well....
I also have an '85 Quantum with the identical problem. Get a half-inch of
rain overnight, and you'll find 2 inches in the passenger-side footwell.
It's definitely more pronounced when the car is parked. I've traced mine
to two different areas:
The first one was in the tray between the firewall and the windshield. I
had to remove some of the sound-deadening stuff VW put in there to find it,
and a droplight placed in the footwell combined with a darkened garage
showed there was a gap. The area has a pronounced dip, and there's a large
drainage hole, but the dip allowed some puddling, and the gap allowed the
puddled water to enter the interior of the car. About a pound of silicone
sealer took care of that one.
The second one I haven't yet attended to. The rear window is leaking. I
was replacing the rear struts back around Christmas and as I was getting at
the top of the struts through the rear shelf, I found that the shelf was
_soaked_! The passenger-side strut receptacle contained so much spoogy-
looking stuff that I suspect that leak has existed for quite a while. It's
making the trunk pretty wet, too.
Now that spring is finally arriving in New England (I hope), I'll be
attending to the rear-window leak. It will be a novel experience _not_
scraping the _inside_ of the windows next winter... ;^)
Mike
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