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Yes my padding underneath my passenger side was soaked with coolant? what can be the issue.
See my post #31 above. There is a link at the bottom of a number of files related to wet carpets and the dash HVAC piping water drain system.
Two of the pdf files have at this time, 1,581 and 1,742 views respectively - hence the content was probably found to be of value by others and may also be the answer to your concern.
These two files relate to plain water, that is rain water and or AC water, not coolant soaking the carpet.
As such, are you certain it is coolant and not plain water soaking the carpet? If it is coolant, than the odds are the coolant level in the expansion tank is dropping. It the level is not dropping then that is good news as the fix per the two files costs nothing and is easy to rectify.
Let us know what you determine.
[QUOTE=bbyer;766543]See my post #31 above. There is a link at the bottom of a number of files related to wet carpets and the dash HVAC piping water drain system.
Two of the pdf files have at this time, 1,581 and 1,742 views respectively - hence the content was probably found to be of value by others and may also be the answer to your concern.
These two files relate to plain water, that is rain water and or AC water, not coolant soaking the carpet.
As such, are you certain it is coolant and not plain water soaking the carpet? If it is coolant, than the odds are the coolant level in the expansion tank is dropping. It the level is not dropping then that is good news as the fix per the two files costs nothing and is easy to rectify.
Let us know what you determine.[/QUOTE
we found the leak it was heater core that was leaking but now I am having problems with my electronics. The car will randomly give TPMS error, hazards flashing, and system shut down. The carpet was full of coolant. so I’m not really sure problem the cluster but the wires and components on the passenger side floor.
we found the leak it was heater core that was leaking but now I am having problems with my electronics. The car will randomly give TPMS error, hazards flashing, and system shut down. The carpet was full of coolant. so I’m not really sure problem the cluster but the wires and components on the passenger side floor.
we found the leak it was heater core that was leaking but now I am having problems with my electronics. The car will randomly give TPMS error, hazards flashing, and system shut down. The carpet was full of coolant. so I’m not really sure problem the cluster but the wires and components on the passenger side floor.
The fix is no real fun but doable. If you have any problem, if will be drying the carpet. Antifreeze does not evaporate like water but it does not eat carpet either.
The odds are that some of the wiring within the door sill channel got wet / is wet and hence not doing what it is supposed to do.
Normally the wet wires problem shows as door locks that will not work. i presume they do so that is good.
In theory you have lights in the door lock and power window buttons both front and rear doors. At night, see if they are still working - that is also a sign of wet wires as they are hair thin and the connectors are often those squeeze type telephone type. Corrosion occurs inside them, (yes, not supposed to) and then problems. The fix is easy once you find the connectors - near impossible - just new connectors.
Other wires and circuits also get affected - that is my best guess as to where to start looking - either way, if it is wet in that channel, it has to be cleaned up.
Below is a link to a good page on the problem.
Pull up carpet/pad
Dry it out
Repair corroded/broken wires/splices
Check sunroof drain operation/clear clogs
Get new A-pillar clips/tape unused holes
Cover the fresh air inlet scoop under the windshield cowl cover (not my pic, mine is looser to still have air flow)
Pull up carpet/pad
Dry it out
Repair corroded/broken wires/splices
Check sunroof drain operation/clear clogs
Get new A-pillar clips/tape unused holes
Cover the fresh air inlet scoop under the windshield cowl cover (not my pic, mine is looser to still have air flow)
I recently been having issues with my cluster it turns off and on, I paid for a repair and it was still having the issues, so I sent it out to another company and they told me they didn’t find any issues either, I wonder if maybe my wires are messed up because I’ve been having that issue where the water is stuck going through my sun roof so my carpets get super soaked like whole puddles of soaked.
I already cleared the holes and water finally comes out as normal and I put some glue on my windshield cowl aswell but looking at the inside it doesn’t seem like it was getting wet in the first place. I’m going to pay for another repair on the cluster and if that doesn’t work again then I have to check the wires like you say.
The front carpet can get wet for two reasons - plugged sunroof drains and it sounds like you have solved that.
The sunroof drains tend to get the carpet wet near the door sills as the door sills "overflow". As you know, the real bad news is that the wires under the door sill then start to corrode. That usually shows up as door locks that will not function or those under door courtesy lamps or the ones in the door buttons - they do not illuminate.
The second is wet carpet near the transmission tunnel on one or both sides. That is water from disconnected or plugged the HVAC drains, one on each side of the transmission tunnel per the jpg.
If that area is wet, the source of water is either from the operation of the air conditioner - condensed water that is supposed to drain thru the floorpan onto the ground or rainwater off the windscreen that is also supposed to drain thru the floorpan. The jpg shows the plastic nipple connected to the thru the floor drain rubber extension. There should be no need to block off the big windscreen air/water inlet per the previous jpg.
The two HVAC drains are supposed to handle any amount of water coming in assuming they are connected and not plugged. Actually the water usually drains onto the skid pan, hence one does not see it on the ground as with the rear HVAC drain.
Re the dash speedo cluster, there is one big connector feeding into the rear of the cluster. The cable is a bit too short from the factory and hence tends to not fully insert or sort of pulls out and hence parts of the display do not display. Also within the cluster, there is a backup chip that has the vehicle serial number imprinted in the software. What I am saying is that usually one cannot just swap in a junkyard cluster due to VIN mismatch. It requires some sort of computer program to mate differing clusters.