jetwashed the car yesterday, then when i turned the fans on (blowing towards your feet) i got showered with abot 2 litres of water!


any ideas? is this just "feature" of mk1 sierras?

and when it rains the footwells get wet, so thats obviously how it's getting in!

 

 

water in the foot wells is a million and one things!

 

In my experience it's a great big hole in the floor pan!

Water through the heaters? Surely that's a safety issue lol.

Aw bless you Jim

 

erm guys are you not listening...

its not a million and one things, its coming in via the heater vents...

 

heater matrix?

 

no, not the heater matrix, water is coming in thru the heater vents

 

sounds like your heater matrix is leaking or u have an in car foot spa

 

well it could be that....



...oh wait its not

WATER IS COMING IN THRU THE HEATER VENTS



anyone else have any ideas for what it isn't?

 

jim your ignorance astouds me!

so you know its not the heater matix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so there only two other points where water can actually get into, but the duct on the bonnet, or around the seal at the bottom of the heater box



GOD DAMN HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE!

 

Sounds to me like you've bought a boat with wheels by mistake.....

 

the only thing the heater vents are linked to is the heater box

 

rscabrio, but whats the heater box linked to?

ryan, thank you you've just told me exactly what i wanted to know

anyway if it is coming from the normal air intake thing surely this is either broken or a shite design? coz when it rains water will get in the intake thing

i know my mk2 never used to give me wet feet when it rained/got jetwashed

and its not ignorance, its lack of knowledge. if i was ignorant i wouldn't have asked in the 1st place

and yes, it definately isn't the heater matrix, i know this for 100%

 

then either the heater box is broken, or the seal between the heater box and bulkhead is perished.

 

jim - i dont think its all mk1 sierras - just your shed mate

 

oooh, there's a seal?

that sounds likely, as most of the rubbers on my car have gone manky where its been sat in a garage for so long...

 

yes

under the heater box between that and the bulkhead, to make a water tight seal and stop water getting into the car suprisingly

 

FPMSL

buy a bicycle....REALLY

 

jim- put some talc on the carpet, and you'll see exactly where the leak is comming from!!


oh, and you still need to borrow that chamis??? lol!!

 

rich i kno where the leak is coming from...

... the heaters

and i got my own chamois at home :P which i DO need to use

 

yeah im sure ford didnt think about rain when they designed the car, nothing to do with yours being rotten i suppose?

 

fuk me! you've got a right shed there aint ya!!!

 

the water in the footwells when it rains is a rotton bulkhead, exactly the same as what happens to s2's when the battery tray/fusebox panel rots

 

but it was perfectly dry beforehand, then the moment the heaters were set to blow, it gushed out (as if oit was sitting in the heater box)

i would expect that rotten bodywork (which i dont have) would mean that the following wouldnt happen anway it wouldnt have gotten wet when washing the car anwyay now afterwards

 

just book it into a garage and get them to sort it jim it really is scary listening to some off your posts
what is it they say about a little knowledge

 

scrap the shed ................ its the only answer

 

rscabrio... WTF?

 

jim, paul does have a point

take it to a garage, think theres a one near you under new management

 

Ive had one of the crappest (fooked 1600 Mk1 sierra), one of the best (the mad 3dr cossie), and one in between (a moonstone 2.8V6 Janspeed Turbo 3door cossie rep with external wastegate etc), and NONE of them pissed water thru the vents when raining.

And knowing the routing for the blower pipes in the heater system, im suprised waters coming out, or do u mean the ones by ur feet?

 

Jim 3 post in one day about ur car, if that aint a sign to sell it and buy a cossie,
i dont no what is

 

get a cossie

 

get a orion

 

SCRAP THE FOOKER

 

yes steve i do mean the ones by the feet... i turned the fans on and it soaked my feet... so water feffo getting in via that route...

will have a proper look tomorrow

 

Jim the car must of pissed itself as it new that you will be driving it again

scrap it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or
Break it

 

i think u should be at totb3 jim..