Excellent work, Larry! Anxiously awaiting your next report!

 

Well it p***ed down last night - however - this morning there was no cup of water in the footwell, so PROVISIONALLY let's say it's fixed

There's still residual damp in the surrounding underlay and carpet edges so I suppose it might take a while for everything to get back to bone dry ..when it does, I'll commit to the problem being solved - but for now, hesitant to do a "definite"

In the meantime, I'll keep the old rubber mat in there ...easy to lift it up and check if the footwell stays dry ...no point putting the carpets and underlay back if it isn't completely fixed, eh?

All in all though, I'm tentatively happy

Larry

 

Excellent, Larry! Your great detective work and photos will no doubt help many of the rest of us in the future.

Cheers,

Don

 

It might help using a blow dryer or heat gun to dry that remaining dampness. Sounds like you cured the problem!

 

Sounds like an idea - do you have a generator or a 500ft extension cord I could borrow?

Larry

 

Maybe set a large pan of uncooked rice or cat litter in the car to absorb the moisture?

 

I wonder if your leak issue is partially due to the climate change up there. Possibly the rubber may shrink somewhat due to the cold weather. We get some pretty heavy rainstorms at times here in Florida and I'm somewhat surprised I've never gotten any kinds of leaks of any kind.

 

On the X308 both drains have hoses on them that run down and
are left loose in the fender well.

(NOT SO) funny thing is that if one examines the fender liners there
are two holes that can be punched out and moulded hose retainer clips
adjacent to the holes in just the right place to hold hoses going through
the holes.

If the two holes are punched out, the hoses can be run to the exterior
and have a bit of slack to clip into the retainer clips.

My conclusion is that either using the holes interfered with tea breaks,
or a cost cutting "engineer" decided saving a couple of minutes on the
assembly line was worth creating a rust trap for the future owner.

Mine now drop the water just behind the front tires outside of the fender
liner .... as originally intended despite the attempt of the two groups
of fools that tried to derail the original intent.

 

Ok, well it's been about 3 weeks since I did the drain channel modification and I finally got all the residual wet areas around the perimeter dried out completely.

It's been pretty good in the weather dept for the last little while but night before last we had another rain/sleet storm that lasted for a few hours with a steady downpour, so really the first REAL test of the modification.

Happy to report that this morning the footwell was bone dry and can now confirm the repair/modification is a success.

I advise all owners to do the same thing next time they open up the fender liners as all cars are going to leak here eventually.

Cheers

Larry

 

Excellent news!