[Closed] Car leaking problem, passenger footwell

Should be easy enough, it's based on the corsa so remove the door seal, remove the trim alongside the seat and then the corner kick panel will come out and allow you to pull it back.

It's all pretty much held in with panel clips.

It's worth noting that it could be coming in via the bulkhead or like the VW issues it may be coming over the sill by the door seal.

I don't know about Tigras specifically, but generally the carpet'll be relatively easy to lift up and it's worth doing because the insulating felt that lives underneath in most cars will be soaked and take ages to dry out. Look for screws / clips towards the front, you may have to remove trim to release the carpet edges.

On Mk2 Golfs - my area of tragic leak expertise - the most common leaks are through the intake for the heater blower fan - often under the scuttle cover, where the drains can easily get blocked by leaves and other debris and from door membranes (under the door cards) made worse if the window slot seals have shrunk back from the glass. On VWs the seal for the aforementioned heater blower inlet perishes and leaks.

Other options are missing or cracked grommets where cables or wiring pass through the engine compartment bulkhead and corrosion around the windscreen, but you also get weird stuff like blocked sunroof drains. Water can end up in places that seem illogical.

Edit: googled out of curiosity found this:

http://www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk/index.php?threads/wet-drivers-footwell.222855/

Dusting some talcum powder inside the car may help you trace the leak. And/or sit inside the car and get a mate to selectively spray different areas of the car with water until you replicate the leak.

Finally, either cat litter in a porous bag or bags of silica crystals which can be dried in a microwave are a good way of drying things out, preferably after the use of a wet and dry vacuum cleaner to take out the worst of it.

It's very frustrating, but worth sorting out. If it's been going on for a while, you may want to replace the under-carpet felt rather then struggling to dry it out.

Hope that's maybe some help.

Can't actually answer your question, but it's worth checking your coolant level, to see if it's reducing.  That might indicate that the water's coming from the heater matrix.  Which is expensive to sort, sorry...

Can’t actually answer your question, but it’s worth checking your coolant level, to see if it’s reducing.  That might indicate that the water’s coming from the heater matrix.  Which is expensive to sort, sorry…

If it's that, the fluid'll likely feel slghtly oily and smell faintly of anti-freeze.

I had the same problem on a fiesta, it was caused by a blocked air con drain.

three places I'd water getting into the footwell have been

air intake for the ventilation as mentioned above - nothing perished but the pollen filter hadn't been refitted properly during a service was and was fowling the cover

the seal inside the door (rather than the seal around the door).

If theres the plastic strips running along the roof - with little sliding covers for roof-rack / roof bars (rather than old fashioned gutters) - have a look in there - I've had water get in through the roof bar mounting point in a vauxhall and it can run down the pillars to the floor.

A blast with a wet and dry vacuum and borrowing a dehumidifier of the night can be enough to dry everything out rather than stripping out the carpets

Sounds like its been built like a British Leyland car from the '70s you always got a wet footwell and too much driving through the big dubs gave you a mini swimming pool

The capillary action caused you to arrive with jeans wet all the way up to the knees

I had water coming in somewhere around the windscreen.  I took the whoel dash out, and I could see it coming into the box section under the windscreen (not the scuttle drain - on the inside).  So I filled it with expanding foam, sorted 🙂

Alfasuds had expanding foam in their pillars or was it Lancias definitely not a good idea

Do you ever notice a water sloshing sound from the passenger side when you go around corners?

If you do, it's most likely the BCM housing cover/seal that's the problem.

Most likely the drain holes are blocked in the cabin filter housing which is normally on the passenger side engine bay against the bulkhead on a right hand drive car.

Drivers side? It will be a real near the steering coumn as per a common Corsa leak.

Jesus, so many causes! My Passat requires me to remove the wipers to get at the plastic tray under them so I can remove the battery... In order to push out the debris that clogs up the drainage hole.

Needs doing again really 🙁 otherwise it spills into the heating matrix and into the passenger footwell, underneath which lies all the fancy electronic gubbins which is, needless to say, not waterproofed

Another vote for "windscreen scuttle drainage hole full of leaves", common issue, mates Vectra was leaking, was leaves.