Strange Leak.. WHY??!!

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Okay guys.. its raining like cats and dogs here in my part of the world.. and i have the most unusual leak in my car.. its only leaking water behind the passanger seat.. like on the floorboard where the rear right passanger puts thier feet.. its soaked.. like someone is just dumping water into the floor board... I need help really fast.. I have a 1996 Mark 8 with sunroof.. does it have to do with my sun roof? I can't verify where the leak is at though.. thats the crazy thing.. help me.. or else I have a bath tub in the back of my car soon.....!!!!
 
the first thing to check is the sun roof drain. I think the hoses run down the piller posts. anybody else???
 
Rear seat water is probably caused by the door seal unless the front is very soaked too. To check just pour water over the door seam. Lots of it... let it sit a bit to make sure its all drained and inspect the seal. If you can, pull the carpet back before you do this to see if it streams down into the floor pan area.
 
Mine leaked from the rear window, the head liner also would get wet when it rained hard.
 
Okay.. well no leak around window seal.. or headliner.. I imagine it has something to do with the sunroof drain.. I'll take a gander at it this weekend! Where about do I look for this tube at? Is it under the plastic cover there on the passanger side of the car? I mean.. its prolly obvious where it is.. but I wanna make sure.
 
Okay.. i'll look there.. but where exatly would a man look to see if the drain tube is hooked up correctly..?
 
the drain tube is up under the headliner, a person would probably have to remove the interior molding, which entails removing the speaker grille, speaker, probably the clothes hook, I think you have to unbolt the front seat belt also, to completely remove this panel. It's not going to be an easy task.


I hear it's flooding pretty bad down your way.
 
Flood.. its like my town and all of our neighbors land has turned into lakes.. theres not a place here thats not either underwater.. damaged by water.. or turned into a lake... Its crazy... biggest flood since 93 down here... Oh okay... well its soaking my floor board. I have to do something fast... or else my cars gunna start smelling like molded water.
 
First thing I would do is get my car somehwere dry...

I would for sure pull out all the seats, head linder, and carpet. Then you can really figure out where the water is coming from.
 
when it's not being driven, can't you throw a tarp over it (sunroof) for now? Also, shopvac out the standing water now and it won't be as bad later. You folks are getting hammered by rain this spring-hang in there, it has to end eventually, you just need to get through it.
 
Oh most defintly.. Its stopped raining.. well its been stopped since friday.. just all of our prayers that we said.. along with a man names jesus.. brought the flood waters down.. We were able to have church during easter and our easter play!! We had one person saved as well... so jesus knew what he was doing...

Yeah.. its not really standing water.. just soaks in the carpet.. this sunroof confuses me.. I guess i've been leaving it open... apparently.. not only does pop up.. like most sun roofs... but it dissapears into the headliner.. sorry for bad description.. but thats the only way I can think of to tell how it does.. I though when i push up on the button twice.. its sealing itself.. but in reality.. its pushing it a little bit back into the headliner... its crazy...
 
I have a couple of cars with sunroofs-good idea when you open it then close it later to eyeball it, just in case-been there, done that...:mad: :mad:
 
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