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Offline danmusic24

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water inside car
« on: 02 May 2015, 18:13 »
losing water and after a quick look round nothing!
then inside car there is brown water staining on carpets at back of centre console?
heater matix? if so is it a pain job???
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Offline Foreveryoungaus16v

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Re: water inside car
« Reply #1 on: 02 May 2015, 19:11 »
Could be many things, take it somewhere to get it checked
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Re: water inside car
« Reply #2 on: 02 May 2015, 19:19 »
Dash out lots of swearing if it's the matrix
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Offline madmanmart

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Re: water inside car
« Reply #3 on: 02 May 2015, 19:39 »
If it's brown then there's ypur problem, lack of coolent causing matrix to corrode.
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Re: water inside car
« Reply #4 on: 02 May 2015, 22:36 »
k seal? quick fix???
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Offline madmanmart

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Re: water inside car
« Reply #5 on: 02 May 2015, 22:44 »
No the quick fix is to link the two matrix pipes going through the bulkhead. It's summer so you don't need heaters anyway.
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Re: water inside car
« Reply #6 on: 02 May 2015, 23:21 »
dont sound good,pls dont say dash out to fix it???
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Re: water inside car
« Reply #7 on: 03 May 2015, 00:35 »
Quote from: danmusic24 on 02 May 2015, 23:21
dont sound good,pls dont say dash out to fix it???
You could maybe bridge it out engine side and not fix it, then pray for a warm long summer :grin:
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Offline Gti_Jamo

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Re: water inside car
« Reply #8 on: 03 May 2015, 11:20 »
Dash out i'm afraid. It's not that hard but a good afternoons work.
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Re: water inside car
« Reply #9 on: 03 May 2015, 12:21 »
Hmmm!! Lovely job to sort!!



For me it was good as the last owner had attempted to bodge the leak and I found all sorts of broken parts/iffy wires when It was apart!
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