water, water, everywhere...

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

Classic leaky windshield symptoms. Grab the top corners of your windshield
rubber seal with your thumbs and flip them up. You'll probably find that
they are shrunken and sucked inwards, exposing a channel that fills with
rainwater and floods neatly behind the dash and drains down in to the
floorpan invisibly. The angle of your parking spot and the severity of
the leak will determine which side (or both) gets wet.

The cure is a new wind$hield $eal or a tube of black silicone neatly
injected under the current seal.

-Toby

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Michael Abatzis wrote:

> ugh. so after fixing my pass side door, and thinking that was my leak, i
> come to my car after a couple days of rain and find the DRIVER'S side floor
> soaked, front and back. pass side bone dry.  the door/sunroof drains i don't
> think are the issue here. i've thought about a windshield leak, but a) it
> was a LOT of water b) i would think pass side would get some water too c)
> felt up around under the dash, didn't feel anything wet up there, and d) i'm
> not ready to tear out my dash looking for leaks yet.  any other sources of
> leaks? i looked under the plastic shield under the hood, and there was a bit
> of water in the tray; the drains were clear, but there was still about
> 1/8-1/4" standing water in there. didn't know if this was normal. could this
> be a source of leaks? the air intake/fan shroud both look like they would be
> susceptable. any thoughts?
>
> -Michael Abatzis
> New Orleans!
> 1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP
> 1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Optimize your Internet experience to the max with the new MSN Premium
> Internet Software. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200359ave/direct/01/
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Scirocco-l mailing list
> Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l
>