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[prozac]

Hi I have a 2001 Grand Cherokee (WJ?) ..... I've got wet carpets in the rear passenger footwell. I sort of assumed it'd be coming in from the front seat bolt s , but I think that's unlikely, there is simply too much. I've not driven the car through deep water recently, nor driven it much more than 3-4 times a week for the past couple of weeks.
There is also a 'significat amount of water in the spare tyre well..... unfortunately I can't check here as it's filled will toroidal LPG tank..... I now think it's filling UP rather than water coming up from below. Possibly from the LHS rear vents?

Any suggestions as to where to start looking.
I'll silicon the front seat bolts anyway....

Many thanks.
Martin
 

[tim_aka_tim]

I found a load of water in my WJ tyre well too. It was the seal on the boot lid.

[prozac]

How long have you been in the States? 

The carpet boot liner on the passenger side is wet. I've siliconed the boot seal on today and packed everywhere with news paper to draw as much water out as possible..... it's a right mare!!!

[tim_aka_tim]

How long have you been in the States? 

Only 18 months! (You need to visit Birty's more often mate  )

[Bishops Finger]

Stick some cat litter in monhelps dry out the damp


Good for cat shite as well..

[prozac]

Having siliconed the boot (trunk for Tim  ) seal I'm trying to dry the area out......
I've also removed trim form the front passenger door and found the carpet in the front footwell to be very wet.... actually it's the foam under the carpet that's very wet..... I can squeeze it and water squirts out sort of wet .... any ideas where it may be getting in..... I'm hoping it's not the aircon draining into the car.....

[scrw]

you need someone to hone all the seals & screen etc while sitting in the car looking for them.

[gazjeep]

He means hose 



I hope 

[Bishops Finger]

So do I .....

[Bubba]

lets hope he dont mean horn

[Asylum]

Dont rule out condensation, its terrible at the moment in both my trucks and if left for a few days its surprising how much builds up. My old chaps WJ sufferers just like my TJ's and if he doesnt use it every day you can see it biuld up on the windscreen and the odd drip on the boot cover thing, all that moisture will find its way to the lowest point of the car it can!

[prozac]

I'm still drying out the footwell carpet with newspaper and 5kg weights... it's getting much drier.
Once dry, I can strategically place paper to try and trace the leak....
I'll keep y'all informed.

[BOP]

Stick some cat litter in monhelps dry out the damp


Good for cat shite as well..

  cat litter works very well, had a 'damp' (steady) issue in the boot of my xj and a tray o kitty litter dried it out spot on!

[prozac]

I thought I was getting some where with this ....... apparently not 

I've had the front passenger carpet lifted, newspaper underneath to dry it out and the heater blowing whenever I'm driving .
The carpet was getting drier.

After all the snow, and with the deluge we had on Friday through which I had to drive, I thought I'd have a proper go at tackling the issue.

I've removed the passenger seat and rear seat and lifted the carpet all the way through ........ I wish I hadn't!!!

The rear footwell isn't just damp, it's positively sodden, I mean totally waterlogged.

I'm now back to thinking it's leaking in the back not the front. So this'd surely discount heater coils, windscreens, A/C drains etc.
There is a small bulk head that separates the front and the back footwells, the front side is damp, the rear is wet...

I've dumped a load of newspaper under the carpet and will keep changing it until the carpet is drier.

I guess the door seal now looks most likely ...... or a hole in the floor.....

 

[Panic mechanic!]

check your rear light seals and tailgate seals, light seals are renown for leaking if they have not been put back right and the water uses the loom to find its way everywhere, also cos most tailgate floors are fluted the water runs under the carpet and then down under the rear seat without ever showing any sign of where it has come from.
Door seals are not usually a problem as there is still the lip for the water to be forced outside unless the drain holes in the bottom of the door is clogged then it can run inside.

[prozac]

I'll check ..... there was a boot leak but I think I've cure that.... the tyre well is bone dry after I siliconed the boot seal...... the whole boot area is dry and the well under the rear seat is bone dry too it's just the section where the rear passenger put their feet that is very wet. 

[Dutch]

Prozac,

Needed my jump leads yesterday to help someone out. Hadn't been in the spare wheel well for ages.

Spare wheel well contained lots of water, jump leads rusty.....bugger.

How did you exactly seal up the boot seal i.e. where did you apply silicone ?

Thanks.

[prozac]

Prozac,

Needed my jump leads yesterday to help someone out. Hadn't been in the spare wheel well for ages.

Spare wheel well contained lots of water, jump leads rusty.....bugger.

How did you exactly seal up the boot seal i.e. where did you apply silicone ?

Thanks.

Dutch, I peeled off the rubber seal that lines the aperture (not the boot lid itself) it joins in the middle at the bottom.... I squirted some silicon in the rubber and refitted it. Seems to have done the job.

[Longjon]

I had this problem in mt Wj. I traced it to thew AC drain pipe, i parked the jeep on an uphill facing slope and the water from the ac would drain out the pipe and then leak back down past the foam gasket through the bulkhead. I had to remove the carpet and it took about a week to dry. I sealed around the ac drain with roof sealer you paint on. I did this both inside and out in the engine bay, and never had a problem since.

LJ

[peter the plumber]

hi longjon where abouts is the air con drain please,i think i have the same fault cheers pete