water in passenger footwell solved!

[brightyboy]

I had a lot of water in my passenger footwell and using my powers of deduction and some searching the zone i came up with the heater matrix....
I took the carpets up.
I didn't notice any water while i was driving but on the way to pick up the matrix i popped into the carwash and guess what,
water coming into the car footwell.
It turns out that the water had run down below the windscreen and run into a hole where the wing joins on and comes into the car below the fusebox,

hole filled/Ԛ£70 saved

hope this helps someone with a wet footwell.

[Brianmoooore]

Water from outside = water in footwell.
Heater matrix leak = coolant in footwell.
Fairly easy to tell the difference between the two.
It wouldn't have been the matrix, anyway. (I've never seen a leaking one). It would be the electric valve on the LH side of the heater box.

[Cyruz]

Aye I had both at the same time. Well the bottom of the passenger side A pillar rotted away and there was a plastic bag in the hole for months stopping the rain getting in. Not surprising that car went to scrappy after rotting away.

[riche30]

I've got rain water collecting in the drivers side footwell but the passenger side is bone dry, any idea's on where the leak might be?

Cheers

[spook]

i will give that a go brightyboy if i can see any gaps, i just thought there might be some blocked drain off holes somewhere, is this a common problem

[brightyboy]

from all the posts i think water in the footwell is a common prob,but then again there are a lot of common problems.