seriously considering giving the safrane another chance as no-one here wants it, no-one i emailed wanted it (not even for free) and seeing as I'd just got the ****ing thing to start and run again I thought oh hell it looks like I'm being told from above to stick with it.
So out i go today to have a quick look at something, open the drivers door and notice immediately that the drivers footwell carpet is wet. Bugger.
So out come the paper towels, I'm soaking up endless amounts of water through the carpet and more keeps coming. No good I'm going to have to remove the plastic trim and pull up the carpet
So, up comes the carpet (well the cornet bit anyway - the rest won't budge with the chair there) and I find this:
I'm sure you can see the bubbles in the floor pan reinforcing stuff.
Yes, it's full of water. So much so that the camera couldn't actually see it and it looks like a clean and dry floor pan.
So out comes the mop and bucket. Within minutes I've managed to wring out all this from the mop:
By the time I was done there was over 2 inches of water in the bucket
The carpet is still soaking wet too despite me trying to squeeze out as much water as I could with my hands. So I needed to find where this was coming from. Only snag is my missus has nicked my torch and left it in her car So I can't see up behind the dash but I think it's coming in from the rubber gromit where the bonnet release cable goes through. I pulled it out a few years back to replace the cable and it appears not to have fitted back in properly.Now I need to remove both chairs. Not nice as they're bolted in from under the car with more rubber gromits making a seal which will no doubt not fit back in properly. Then if I take the seats out there are plastic sockets that the seats sit in that need removing - I've only ever got them out by breaking them. SAFRANEV6RXE told me a while back these are no longer available too. If I can get those out I then need to remove the center console (a real PITA) and then finally the carpet.
Of course I may well be wrong about where the leak is coming from too (the other side of the rubber thing comes out into the bonnet which doesn't let water in) which will probably mean the dashboard out too
Oh.. and the autobox indicator started flashing again today so clearly thats not happy about something again