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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Basque on 25 October 2007, 09:12

Title: help me with the water!!
Post by: Basque on 25 October 2007, 09:12

can anyone tell me how can the water come inside my car through here????? i have no idea  :cry:


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Title: Re: help me with the water!!
Post by: jafo on 25 October 2007, 09:14

Depends where abouts in the car it is?

Title: Re: help me with the water!!
Post by: Basque on 25 October 2007, 09:24

sorry jafo i dont understand you, im from spain, thats the passenger size, its a golf gti 8v, if you click in the pics u'll see them bigger, and i have circled in green the point where the waters comes in, and there u can see a blackened zone, thats because of the water. sorry if you dont understand me im not an english speaker :smiley:

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Title: Re: help me with the water!!
Post by: R98 HUF on 25 October 2007, 09:33

so its coming in from behind the glovebox and its a left hand drive car!!  Think this was covered a while back and it tuned out to be some sealer had perished, if thats the case re seal the entry point which in under the bonnet near where the wiper are....

sorry im not much help

Title: Re: help me with the water!!
Post by: Pete Taylor on 26 October 2007, 20:45

Have a look under the bonnet around the top of the suspension strut, there will be a hole there. Normally it comes in where the joint for the rubber hose coantaining the door electrics come through the car

Title: Re: help me with the water!!
Post by: boneybradley on 26 October 2007, 20:48

also check the drain holes in the bulkhead as these block and water wont run away fast