ok im getting annoyed here..

I have water in the rear passenger floorboard and under the driver side rear seat



So i pulled my carpet and saw little rubber "plugs".. I pulled them off and saw the ground under me, so i was assuming that is what people were talking about when they asked if I had those under the carpet.. So yes i have those all intact


and today when it rained, it still got wet


ANY HELP PLEASE would be greatful!

 

probably leaky t-tops if you have them...it would be leaking where the top of the door window meets the weather stripping on the t-top. I adjusted the windows a hair and solved the problem(for now)

 

I was tracking these down for awhile. Here's my guess. Do you park on a decline? I did, and because of the way the hatch is designed it created a pool in the front part of the trench, right before it rises up to the "hoop". This pool would rise above the weatherstripping and drip down inside. It lands somewhere along the rear seatbelt reciever, and creates the lake in your backseat. It didn't flow into my trunk area though. Bad design IMO, that is only made worse from the fact that gm didn't put a lot of glue on the w/stripping.

To fix it, I applied RTV gasket maker to the stripping along the trench. If done correctly, you can apply it by kind of pulling the stripping up so that when you put it back it hides any trace of the orange stuff. Haven't had any problems since.

Good luck!

 

I DO park on a decline with the hatch pointed up.. and i know that it can cause it under the backseats, but what about in the floorboards?

 

Mine did this once last week, i moved the windows up and down a couple times and the problem went away...door/window seals are old and bad design. My car leaks very badly in the car wash...

 

It seeps. The "bucket" in the backseat is only so deep. When I left my car like that for 2 days with steady rain it went almost all the way to the front of the car. The only thing that stopped it was the last ridge that is where the front studs for the seat are.

If you want to be sure, the only option you have is to remove the back panels (takes 2 minutes) and soak the have someone soak the hatch while you are parked downhill again. Sit in the back seat with a flashlight and look to see if it's dripping. My problem area was by the seatbelt reciever, which is the farthest back it'll go before it would collect in the trunk instead.

 

damnnnnn, i thought GM would have solved the problem with leakages in a 4gen after all the problems the 3gen had... jeez they really don't give a f*** about quality.

 

You don't hand wash your's???

The RVT sealant sounds like a good idea to me. Maybe even some epoxy would hold the weather stripping down better. Although then you would rip it trying to get it off if you ever needed to.

 

i had this problem in a chevy cavalier convertible i own. I swore for so long that it was the top or along the window seals, but it wasn't. It was the windsheild sealant. believe it or not, the sealant gets dry and eventually devolps holes small enough for water to get buy. all four floor boards were getting soaked. My advice: CHeck the front windsheild as well as the hatch

 

get in that beast and have a freind vigoursly hit every seam with a garden hose. That should show you exactly what your dealing with. If it doesn't show then, try diffrent agnles of the car, or use a higher pressure stream.

 

I am having the same problem, this is really pissing me off! One day about two weeks after buying my car I was going to vacuum the floormats and when I lifted the driver side front floormat there was STANDING water! The pool went all the way from under the pedals to about an inch or so away from the front studs holding the driver seat in place. I then checked under the other floormats and found water under the rear seat mats but not a drop under the front passenger.

I am also parking on a decline (nose down) and I am convinced that the water must be getting in from the engine firewall or a faulty seal on the windshield. But I just had my window replaced last week (dump truck carrying gravel while on my way to the Corvette Museum) and it still leaks so I'm thinking it's probably the firewall.

Yes, my T-tops leak a tiny bit but it's not bad at all. If someone knows for a fact that it is the T-top leak please explain how the water gets from the window to pooling up only in the floorboards. This is driving me nuts! lol.

When it rains or I hose my car down there is absolutely no water on top of the floormats, it just magically appears underneath soaking the floorboard. Now my carpet is stained with mildew and I can see that this could become an expensive recurring problem, especially if over time the water causes the floorboards to rust out.

I am not sure how I'll find exactly where the water is getting in at. It would make more sense if the water soaks in the entire carpet from the front of the floorboard back but it only accumulates in a pool at the flattest part of the floorboard. Also it seems like it's most prominent where my heel rests in the floor where my foot pivots to and from the pedals.

If we could figure out where the water is coming in at sealing it up would be the easy part. I can't believe there is no recall on this, it hurts the resale value of our cars. I thought by the most recent Camaro build ('98-'02), these build quality issues would have been resolved, there is no excuse for it.

We must fix this problem, we should not have to redo our carpeting and deal with this absurd mildew / water smell whenever it rains or when we want to wash our cars.

Goooooos-fraaah-baaaah.....