Wet feet for passengers! New MR2 owner needs help!

[TGIFMR2]

Recently bought an 1987 white mk1 which is fab except...any passengers need wellington boots after it has been raining when footwell starts to fill with water.

Previous owner suggested that problem maybe water draining from airvents under windscreen and running into the car not out via the wing?

Any ideas?

[kaiowas]

I'd suggest you pull up the carpets and have a good look in the footwells (Remove the kickplate on top of the sill, and the trim plate that covers the wires and stuff in the pic below held on by a single 10 nut, then you can pull the carpet back). My last one had a similar problem and now looks like this:



In my case water was getting in at the top of the bulkhead somewhere (still haven't fully stripped everything out to find out exactly where), running down the back and had then rotted it's way through where the big hole is, the wet carpets were then caused by further water coming through the hole.

Hope this isn't what has happened to yours though.

Yours isn't something as simple as a leaking t-bar is it?

[Karl_T]

(still haven't fully stripped everything out to find out exactly where)

Some leaks you never do find. I've got one that seems to soak the driver's side carpet only if there's an 'r' in the month. Had problems all though the winter and yet it stayed as dry as a bone through JAE. Mad.

Karl

[mr2mk1chick]

Our SC floods when you go through large puddles on the passenger side.

I havent had chance to look proplerly yet, but guess it may be due to a bung missing from the floorpan.

[System-G]

We have discovered a hole in the passenger foot well (up under the dash) recently when a huge wave came crashing through

You can't see it without removing the under-trays and even then it's dificult to get at. Reminds me though... we must sort it asap.

[Jimbo_Jet]

I’ve got a similar problem with mine, although no where near as severe thankfully. My passenger side footwell carpet varies from slightly damp, to soggy, to the touch after a heavy down pour. But never in the drivers footwell thankfully. I’ve had the carpet pulled back in the passenger footwell over the last few weeks and I’ve noticed that the metal floor can be dry on my way home from work, even if the road is wet, but it can then have a small amount of standing water on it the next morning if it has been raining heavily overnight. This morning was the same, so I felt all around the up stands foot well and the only side that was damp was below the passenger side’s plastic trim equivalent of the plastic fuse panel cover in the driver’s footwell. If that makes sense. So it could be coming from a few places I guess where the A pillar touches down to the main body, around the wing mirror area.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[dan the man]

A good way to find leaks is to sit inside your car and get somone to give it a really good showering with a hose pipe hopefully the person in the car can spot the leak! works best with bigger leaks and id try not to use a pressure washer as it may damage rubber seals

[Jimbo_Jet]

Arrrrghhh!! I thought the rain was just trickling in from the junction of my passenger side A pillar and the windscreen, but oh no!

This morning I got in my car and checked the passenger side footwell as it has been pouring down overnight (the carpet is permanently pulled back in the passenger well at the moment). Just as I expected, a very small 2 inch wide puddle of water in the well below the A pillar/windscreen/wing mirror/bonnet junction area – so that shouldn’t be too hard to find and to fix. Otherwise the footwell was bone dry.

On my drive in to work today all the back roads I drive down were flooded – up to 1 foot deep in places but general 2 inch deep puddles and ponding all over the roads.

I get to work and check my passenger footwell and what do I find? It looks like someone has just emptied a pint of water into my car! The whole passenger foot well had about ¼ cm of standing water in it!

So it’s coming up from the floor pan somewhere as well.

Has anyone had the same problem and, if so, how did they fix it?

Thanks.