jkcerruti
01-07-2006, 02:07 PM
Alright so my parents bought my LXi new in 1989, and as long as I can remember, the car has always smelled of mildew in the winter time. Since I recieved it in 2003, I have come to expect the smell and fogging windows during raining.
So yesterday I decided to look for a leak, I felt around, and found the passenger's side floor in the back was soaked. I then looked in the trunk, near the spare tire and found that my spare tire was sitting in about 5" of water. I was in my spare tire a week earlier due to a flat, and it was bone dry! I cleaned the drain in the spare tire compartment, and was baffled as to why the carpet in the trunk has always been DRY! I looked around on the forums and figured out my trunk problem was my tail lights, called honda and their parts department is CLOSED on weekends?!
MY QUESTION IS: Why is the floor in front of the rear seat wet?! I gutted the back of my car, the rear seat is out, carpet is pulled back, plastic in trunk is out, and i ran a sprinkler under my car, moved it around looking for water to show up in my car... IT DID, but only in one place, where the hook for the bottom of the back seat clips in the front, sure enough you can see straight through to the ground, however the drivers side is the same way and is not wet.
Does anyone have a solution to this? I was going to have my dad rig up some sort of flashing for under the car, if we can find the factory holes underneath, If this is my leak, it must have been going on since day 1, nothing is rusted, so I can only assume that it is just a horrible design!
Any Thoughts or other places to look?
Thanks!
So yesterday I decided to look for a leak, I felt around, and found the passenger's side floor in the back was soaked. I then looked in the trunk, near the spare tire and found that my spare tire was sitting in about 5" of water. I was in my spare tire a week earlier due to a flat, and it was bone dry! I cleaned the drain in the spare tire compartment, and was baffled as to why the carpet in the trunk has always been DRY! I looked around on the forums and figured out my trunk problem was my tail lights, called honda and their parts department is CLOSED on weekends?!
MY QUESTION IS: Why is the floor in front of the rear seat wet?! I gutted the back of my car, the rear seat is out, carpet is pulled back, plastic in trunk is out, and i ran a sprinkler under my car, moved it around looking for water to show up in my car... IT DID, but only in one place, where the hook for the bottom of the back seat clips in the front, sure enough you can see straight through to the ground, however the drivers side is the same way and is not wet.
Does anyone have a solution to this? I was going to have my dad rig up some sort of flashing for under the car, if we can find the factory holes underneath, If this is my leak, it must have been going on since day 1, nothing is rusted, so I can only assume that it is just a horrible design!
Any Thoughts or other places to look?
Thanks!