When the car has been parked up for a couple of weeks, during heavy rain, I find water pooling in the rear left hand side passemger footwell. I have also found the front left hand passenger carpet wet.

The car is parked on level ground in front of my house (not a cambered road) the lowest pont being to the rear right hand side.

The window and door are tightly shut and I can't see how its getting in.

The boot seems dry. I can't see water marks on the door. Does anyone know where the rear washer pipe runs? I have not yet started pulling the trim and carpets up. I have the Haynes maual but it doesn't help.

As the water has appeared after the car has been unused for a couple of weeks I don't think it's being thrown up from underneath. It might be that when the car was in daily use, the heater and ventilation dried out the carpet, and I wasn't aware of the problem.

- (#7476) JohnD, 4 Jan 04 09:14

I don't know if this is going to be of any help,,,,but,,,,I had a citroen BX a while ago and had the same problem with water ingress. After many hours of searching, I even replaced the rubber door seal (which didn't work, I found that the water was going down the door window into the door and after a short while overflowing past the door trim and so into the car. Obviously the door drains were blocked therefore causing the problem.
Try it, I think you will be surprised.

- (#7476) Devon Dave, 4 Jan 04 10:56

hi there the window screen seals as well gets be hind them and comes down the inside of the bulk head.

- (#7476) pete, 5 Jan 04 02:54

If you have a sun roof check the drain from this.

- (#7476) Mark, 5 Jan 04 03:50

Thanks for the suggs. I will take the door trim off and see if it is running down from the window.

Sorry, no sunroof.

- (#7476) JohnD, 5 Jan 04 12:06

I need to get the door trim off my P reg Carina E to fix a water leak,

However... I haven't yet managed to get the window winder off so I can remove the door trim and fix the prob. Haynes says pull out the retaining spring with a bit of bent welding rod (which I haven't got) but I can't see this spring. Can anyone describe how to get this winder spring off?

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- (#7476) JohnD, 9 Jan 04 10:24

I've got the clip our now and taken off the door trim. The cause appears to be that there are two pieces of polythene sheet inside the door, one of them was probably supposed to be tucked inside the door shell, so that water penetrating the window would run down it and fall to the bottom of the door inside the shell, and the other is in contact with the door trim.

The inner one had come outside the door cavity, possibly when a dent was repaired, so that water could run down it, then down the second sheet, then fall out of the bottom of the door trim and thence find its way down onto the carpet.

I have poked the "shell" polythene back into the door shell, may secure it with some tape, and before refitting the trim will watch on the next rainy day to see if the prob is cured.

- (#7476) JohnD, 9 Jan 04 11:54

Alas, not yet cured. It looks as if the inner polythene sheet is stuck to the door using a thick bead of black sealant, which also acts to direct the flow of any water down to a hole on the inner diir skin, so that it gets back into the shell and runs out of the bottom of the door.

My sealant bead has become detached, so it no longer dams the flow of water. I suppose I will have to put a new bead in, and perhaps even cut a new polythene sheet. I am thinking of using a Gutter Sealant gun, looks to be some kind of synthetic mastic and will presumably stand up to wet better than acrylic seal.

The gap at the bottom of the window looks surprisingly wide, about 2mm to 3mm. Shouldn't there be a rubber wiper in contact with the glass?

Anyone else had to do a similar job?

- (#7476) JohnD, 13 Jan 04 09:02