Wet rear passenger carpet

[nstiesi]

So here I am, just a moron happily retrofitting an Opel badge to my stock grill.....I noticed that the car smells musty. I've had this car exactly one week.

The carpet directly below the passenger seat, and the rear seat carpet is SOAKED. The passenger front footwell is dry, btw.

Can someone tell me what this plug is for: (attached). I noticed it's leaking, and when I try prying at it, water comes POURING out.

Is it more likely that water was getting UP past this plug? Or is it dripping down the frame somewhere and collecting here?

The headliner and b-pillar on the passenger side are bone dry. It's late, I just vacuumed up the water and drained this panel so that's all I can muster tonight. Any thoughts? All help is appreciated, thanks!

(Note the picture is upside down)

 

[nstiesi]

Also I do NOT have a sunroof equipped

 

[94cruiser]

One possibility is that when it was detailed, they did not clean it up properly.

I've experienced that once on one of the cars I had.
I had water in the spare tire area (before I bought the car).

 

[nstiesi]

So i went to go look around a little bit this morning before work. The spare tire/amplifier area is BONE DRY. i dont think its coming in the back at all. For the headliner feel totally dry as well, although I did feel like the front passenger "oh shit" handle was SLIGHTLY damp. I am not 100% sure.

For some reason I suspect the passenger side roof rail, but I have absolutely NO basis for that theory, just vibes. Do the rails bolt on from underneath or from up top? Do I have to remove the headliner to check it?

For now I have ordered a car cover. I am going to drive my beater for a while and leave the TourX covered while I work on it.

 

[02LTD2.0]

When I had a soaked rear passenger floor it was a ruptured heater core. Smell for antifreeze but that was on a 10 year old Bonneville back in 2007.

 

[nstiesi]

When I had a soaked rear passenger floor it was a ruptured heater core. Smell for antifreeze but that was on a 10 year old Bonneville back in 2007.

Thanks, but I'm certain it's water.

I have pulled the three bungs/plugs under the passenger side. Standing water only came out of the one directly under the front seat. The foam is saturated in all of them. I left them off since I'm not driving the car.

It remains covered. I've vacuumed it twice. The back seat carpet is dry, and only directly under the seat is still damp. There is now a 2lb bucket of damp-rid on the floor too. It just won't stop raining every afternoon here in Florida, so I can't open it up and air it out until the weekend.

I checked the grommets behind the tail lights, and rather disappointingly they looked fine. That was one of the only recurring leak points I have found on sunroof-less tourX's, and would have been an easy fix.

Not sure where to go from here. Dealer said I can bring it in, but it will be charged like a normal service call/repair. It's a Hyundai dealer 45 mins from me, so if I'm gonna do that I'll go to a Buick dealer thats closer. Still, I spent many $1000s to buy the damn thing just over a week ago, I'm really hoping I can find and fix this myself.....but I'm beginning to lose hope.

 

[nstiesi]

So just in case this helps the next poor soul that loses his or her mind ....

I "crashed out" last week, as the kids say these days. Anxiety and frustration took over and I brought the car to the dealer Friday afternoon.

Later that day, I found this video:

It has never occured to me that water could come in the front, NOT wet the front carpet, then pool in the back seat floor....but that's EXACTLY what happened.

The dealer didn't really look at it Friday OR Saturday, save for popping off the passenger b pilla plastics. They are closed Monday for Labor Day. I opted to pick the car up so I could keep looking and keep drying it out, with the promise to bring it back Tuesday.

The first thing I checked was the foam behind the carpet behind the glovebox, and sure enough damp!

I looked the cowl plastic, which was NOT snapped into the bottom of the windshield like it was supposed to be. Below that, the black part pictured below was almost completely detached.

Also pictures of the gigantic hole in the firewall that piece is meant to cover. I am almost 100% sure this is it, so much so I'm gonna tell the dealer to cancel the service. Rain is in the forecast this weekend so I'm sure it will get tested. If not I will try a hose, but I'm pretty confident!

 

[Clifford]

I had this problem too, but didn't know the cause until now.