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2001 water leak on drivers side floor


ksierens
03-14-2007, 06:37 PM
Ok, I have seen a number of posts on the subject, but have not seen any answers yet. I have a 2001 Aurora and noticed water on the drivers side floor last fall. I pulled the carpet back and dried it out, since it is like a sponge material underneth. I thought my wife left the window down since I sucked about a quart of water out from the front and back.
The next time it rained, the front floor was wet again! Since then I checked both the drain tubes from the sun roof. Both of them were off behind the kick panels, and what a pain that it to reconnect. I don't recommend blowing air into them from the top because the hard plastic connects to a very soft piece that runs out ouf the firewall and if it is plugged, I think the air pressure can push it off. I also pulled down the headliner to make sure the tube was connected on the drivers side, and removed the inner tire wells and made sure the drains were not plugged and cleaned out the gunk at the bottoms of the fenders.
About a week ago I dried the carpet out again, getting about a cup of water in the vacuum, since I thought I had it fixed.
Well it rained again today, and the carpet is getting wet again! So today I checked the drain tube for the evaporator, not that. I am running out of ideas. One post said it was their windshield.

Has anyone had this same problem and found the answer????

95supreme
03-23-2007, 04:44 PM
Hello,

Here is a link to a thread on the Aurora forum that has some possible solutions for you:
http://aurorah.proboards47.com/index.cgi?board=nextgeneration&action=display&thread=1173916200

It seems it's either the door seal or the sunroof.

ksierens
03-24-2007, 09:29 AM
Thanks, actually that is my post there too :grinyes:

Just waiting for some more rainy days to see where I'm at.

95supreme
03-25-2007, 07:23 PM
Sorry ksierens, didn't know that was you on ACNA!

I did post something about using clear silicone to put under the rubber seals. Close the door and let the silicone dry for 4 hours. I'll form a seal to fill in the gaps. I had that problem with my 95 Cutlass. After I put the silicone, no more leaks!

kiway22
03-30-2007, 03:59 PM
I have a suggestion if you have not found your leak. Get a bright flashlight, pull back the carpet, and uncover other suspected areas. Get in the car and let someone outside the car blast away with a water hose. And see if you can spot the leak or leaks.

JSH
03-18-2008, 09:11 PM
I have had leaks on both sides, and it seemed it was also in the rear, until further investigation. Behind the inside door panel is a plastic panel attached to the metal door structure with butyl sealant. Because of the difference in thermal expansion between the plastic and metal, the seal breaks. Water comes in the door at the bottom of the window, and runs past the plastic seal and down the inside door panel onto the floor, and when it is high enough, spills into the rear floor pan. You can actually wring moisture out of the lower carpet on the door panel. The remedy is to remove the inside panel, and reseal the plastic to the metal, leaving enough slack to accommodate the thermal expansion. Then thoroughly dry the floor mats front and back. Speedy Auto Glass did this for me for a very reasonable 1 hour charge.

ksierens
03-19-2008, 06:21 AM
Thanks JSH, I think my problem was more related to the sun roofs drain tubs being off at the bottom between the hard plastic and soft rubber lines behind the kick panel. It has been about a year since the leak, and "knock wood" so far, so good. One word of advice, I would never use compressed air to try and clear these lines out at the sun roof. It can cause the soft rubber line to be pushed off the hard plastic ones.

tiff80
04-02-2008, 06:04 PM
I have a 2001 olds aurora that has had water building up on the floor behind the drivers seat. Took it in and had the sunroof checked out.... had the tubes cleared but didn't solve the problem. Water is still building up. Has anyone figured the problem out? I see that there are a few people that have had the same problem. Please help! Thanks

dabbad
04-18-2008, 06:23 PM
Okay, I am brand-new to the forum and I too have the 2001 Olds Aurora driver's side floorboard wet carpet problem. I have noticed that the carpet does NOT get wet at near the firewall where the gas and brake pedals are, but instead mainly gets wet just below the front of the front seat toward the middle (gearshift) of the car. That is where most of the water accumulates. I have removed the rubber/plastic cover at the bottom of the front windshield glass, where the windshield wipers are. I have siliconed every hole under the hood. I lay in the car and had my wife shoot a lot of water on the windshield and tested it with the rubber/plastic cover removed so that all you saw was the bottom of the windshield, and still NO water. I too have tried everything except the seal in the door. I will try that next and post back to this forum to see if it works. NEEDLESS to say, this will be my last GM vehicle. Close to 100 years of making cars, and GM still doesn't know how to prevent water from getting inside a car! What dorks these GM folks have become!

vega509
08-28-2008, 09:58 AM
Okay, I am brand-new to the forum and I too have the 2001 Olds Aurora driver's side floorboard wet carpet problem. I have noticed that the carpet does NOT get wet at near the firewall where the gas and brake pedals are, but instead mainly gets wet just below the front of the front seat toward the middle (gearshift) of the car. That is where most of the water accumulates. I have removed the rubber/plastic cover at the bottom of the front windshield glass, where the windshield wipers are. I have siliconed every hole under the hood. I lay in the car and had my wife shoot a lot of water on the windshield and tested it with the rubber/plastic cover removed so that all you saw was the bottom of the windshield, and still NO water. I too have tried everything except the seal in the door. I will try that next and post back to this forum to see if it works. NEEDLESS to say, this will be my last GM vehicle. Close to 100 years of making cars, and GM still doesn't know how to prevent water from getting inside a car! What dorks these GM folks have become!

had the same problem after a heavy rain . the center of the drivers floor was extremely wet. I checked the headliner, dry, the carpet was wet only in the center, the door panel dry. I felt around under the dash all was dry there too. I removed the trim from the pillar, and the edge of the floor, no signs of a leak anywhere. I lifted as much of the carpet as possible and could not see anywhere the water was entering the car. Next I checked the sunroof drains, the using a syringe, the right side vented water just behind the front wheel. The left side nothing. I reached under the carpet again and could not find where the water was entering.

I removed the kick panel, and found water was flowing down a larger wiring harness next to the emergency brake assembly. I removed the emergency brake assembly to have access to that area, and found a small access hole for the wiring for the drivers door. The rubber insulator the covers the entire kick panel side was wet near the hole. I ran more water through the sunroof drain, there was the leak. Although It is impossible to see into the hole, or get more the two fingers into it, I figured the drain tube became disconnected.

there was no way to reach inside to find the tubes, let alone reconnect or repair them. What I ended up doing
was to remove the inner fender from the drivers side, remove the drain tube exit, which is a rubber nipple looking thing about 8" above the bottom of the chasis panel. I was able to run a piece of wire through the exit hole to the small hole behind the kick panel. I put a piece of 3/8" vinyl tubing over the wire and managed to get the tubing through. next I pulled the tube that runs down the pillar out from the dash, careful not to disturb the upper part. I dropped a wire through the top of the dash down, and with a lot of effort managed to get it to exit the through the access hole behind the kick panel. I pulled the new tubing up with the wire and easily got it though the top of the dash. I cut the original line on the pillar just above another joint and slipped it into the new tubing @ 6", and siliconed the end. tested the drain to be sure there were no kinks, the water exited behind the wheel.

I have ended up with one piece tube from mid pillar to the exit in the wheel well, nothing to come apart again, and hopefully permanently fixed.

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