My "ex-wife-to-be"s 03 Ka has started getting water in the driver's
footwell. It doesn't have antifreeze in it, so it isn't coming from
the heater matrix behind the centre console - thank goodness. It is
therefore probably rain water, but the door and windscreen seals look
OK. Any other ideas, before I get the garden hose out of winter
storage?

Thanks,

Stephen.

"Stephen Leak" <stephen.leak (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Lift the rubber strips, the bodyshell tends to rot out under the door seals
etc.

PDH

"Stephen Leak" <stephen.leak (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk> wrote

check the heater drains for leaves

"Stephen Leak" <stephen.leak (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Ex wife to be? Leave the bloody thing

In message <Jc8Nh.18931$7l1.4036 (AT) newsfe4-gui (DOT) ntli.net>, Krycek
<spam2422 (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> writes
Is that not why he's getting the hose out- to fill the thing up? ;-)
--
Kenny

"Stephen Leak" <stephen.leak (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk> wrote


Finding water in the drivers' footwell isn't as common as in the passenger
footwell.

Some Kas have a problem whereby water gets in behind the door mirror
plastic, but as I understood these were only the early machines and not the
later ones. The water dribbles down the door, shorting speakers, central
locking and occasionally window switches :-/ before forming a puddle.

Does the Ka have air conditioning? If it does and your ex-to-be (?) has
been running it, I suspect a blocked drain pipe. By all accounts these are
easy to spot... but I never found ours and it needed relocating a couple of
times. Is the water very cold?

You may also like to drop by www.myka.org and ask in here, tell 'em Dervy
sent you...

--
The DervMan
www.dervman.com

Stephen Leak <stephen.leak (AT) hotmail (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
Ex wife to be? You mean the Ka makes her not want to be a Leak any more?



--
"Get a paper bag"

"Paul Hubbard" <jessnet (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote

In just 3 and a half years?! That's a disgrace.

"gm" <g@m.com> wrote


So what's new? I have not touched a Ford in years due to the build quality,
the car I had that turned me against Ford spent more time in the garage
draining my pocket than on the road. Ford gives you less, as they should
have said in the adverts at the time. (

Besides, I did mention that VAG offerings have the aluminium washers in the
brake system that rot in as little as three years, this in another thread.
Don't get me wrong, no manufacturer is perfect, never will be. The hard
part when buying a car is getting advice on what CAN go wrong. From
personal experience I would not touch anything from Ford, VAG, Fiat/Alfa,
but that's just me, you probably have a different view on good and bad.



Rdgs

PDH

"Paul Hubbard" <jessnet (AT) ntlworld (DOT) com> wrote

Not a different view, but I'd just add Rover, MG, Proton and Hyundai to the
list. I'll stick to Japanese for my own cars, regarding as boring by some,
but a car should primarily be for transport from A to B (or Z, if you're
into that stuff), so it doesn't have to be more than that necessarily.