[Shotimes] Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #4300 - 3 msgs

[loren]

Hi Richard,

I had something similar happen to me recently, after an extremely hard 
rain.  Front passenger floor was soaked (1/2" of standing water), and then 
few days later passenger back floor also became wet.  I think it might be 
capillary action through the carpet or perhaps seatbelt moving the water 
from front to back, and I believe my leak was through the front.  I 
vacuumed the water and rinsed with new fresh water and revacuumed, and did 
not get mold or odor.

For a solution, I resealed around the lower glass of the front windshield 
using black silicon sealer, and this seemed to work.  The old sealer was 
somewhat dried and cracked and there were a few pieces missing, so I think 
this might have been my source of leak.

mine is a '90 MTX.

Lorenzo




>Message: 2
>From: "Adams at work" <rtadams@itsnet.com>
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:49:16 -0700
>Subject: [Shotimes] Rear floor soaked
>
>Hi,
>
>My '95 MTX SHO passenger side floor has been soaked all winter. Snow sits on
>the car and melts off eventually. No signs in the interior where water could
>be coming from. I had been sopping it up with a towel, leaving windows open
>on sunny days, hoping for a miracle. Yesterday I ripped the seat bench, back
>and the soaked soundproofing stuff out. Just the bottom "well" under the
>passenger seat was soaked, must have leaked from there down to the carpet
>well. The long seatbelt looked wet and there was a remnant of a puddle on
>the leather seat bench. The seat back was dry, the seat bottom inner foam
>was wet, wire frame rusted some. The head liner shows no signs of water,
>even at the back, nor near the sunroof. The other floors and seats are dry.
>The rear door and trunk weather stripping still are intact.
>
>I have electrical-taped around the sunroof and the top seal of the rear
>window and I'm about to hose it down with someone inside and the back seat
>still out to watch. But it needs to be a little more above freezing before I
>go for it. I can see with the right read door open that a leak there could
>seep down onto the floor and under the seat bench, but how could it soak the
>seatbelt and bench top?  Any other ideas or similar experiences you could
>share?
>
>Richard Adams