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This morning there was loads and loads of condensation on the INSIDE of the car windscreen before I even started it. Like big droplets, too much to mop up with a tissue. I had to squeegee it and ended up with water all over the dashboard. What gives? I've never seen this before on any car?
No other evidence of a leak, and no condensation on any of the other windows either. I last drove it yesterday and it was fine - hasn't rained since then, so leaking rain doesn't seem to be the cause.
It's condensation. I've had it before. Wet/humid day followed by cold/freezing night. Bingo!
Check your carpets under the mats- are they wet/damp? water ingress through window seals?
Sounds like either wet carpets (did you get a lot of snow in the car last week) or your heater matrix or pipes may be leaking.
very cold windscreen + warmer air from engine inside cabin + water/ melted snow from your shoes
Ah! Its a Prius, the evil-thing is finally dying? 🙄 8)
Possibly trod a load of snow into the car.
My mate just had a similar issue where the air intake for the heater was full of water because the drain hole was blocked.
This isn't the Prius, it's the aged Passat thankyou very much. Maybe a load of snow in the air intake for the heater.... But like I say I've never had it before, and this was BEFORE I started it.
nickjb - good point, must check this.
Has it by any chance been snowing around you area recently and you may have stood in some before getting the car?
Either your heater matrix, damp from the carpets if you didn't kick the snow off your boots, or you have an old shape Seat Leon with the obligatory knackered door seals.
Wait till it freezes on the inside of your windscreen!
yeah check for water, the wifes car had ice on the inside recently, turns out there was a big puddle in the boot under the spare wheel.
if you drove the car the day before then there will have been enough residual heat in the engine to produce condensation from the inevitable damp in the carpets. you don't need much airborne moisture to condense it on a sub zero surface. exactly the same (although slightly less wet) on our 3 year old Golf yesterday
Only time I've ever got large drips inside is when my door seal was leakign significantly and the rear footwells were small puddles. And I spend a lot of time leaving wet gear in the car 🙂 I did get the old inside-frozen thing yesterday, but taht actually occurred as soon as I opened the door - seems the moist air outside hit the dry inside of the window and froze instantly :s
did you sneeze just as you got in the car?