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Left my G40 out of the garage last night and we had HEAVY rain
overnight.Started her up this morning and noticed the drivers
side carpet was soaking .Anyone any ideas where i
should start looking for the leak before i start ripping stuff out.

Lift the battery out and check the tray underneath for holes. Very common place apparently (though I personally have never had this problem). I bet this is where it's coming from

If not, have you checked your windscreen rubber seal? Might not be fitted at a corner properly or there could be corrosion underneath a bit of the seal

Phoned a mate who works for Autoglass and he is
going to do the windscreen seal for me on Tuesday.
Just about to go check underneath the battery.Nice
G40 you've got there mate.Seen it on a few forums.
Liking the side lights a lot ....Do you get much grief
from the law about them?

another place i would check is inside your door trims. behind the door card should be a plastic cover which seperates the inside from the outside. if this is damaged at all, there is a chance water runs down the window, into the door and then out the bottom of the door into your footwell. its a common thing on mk2's and mk3's.

Hope that is of some help!

This man speaks the truth ^^ The door condoms are leaky... as they say it isn't 100% against 'spillage'

Cheers, Buster. Nah, no grief from anyone about them. Most new European cars have side markers anyway (namely Volvo)

Windscreen has been done (new seal inside)
New skins behind door cards(made them meself)
No holes under the battery
......Just waiting for it to pish from the high heavens
Del...I'm gonna have to get me a set of those sidies.....
they are as fcuk

glad you've hopefully sorted everything out. is there any sign of where water came through? bet you can't wait till it rains!

i had this problem on my old mk2, stood there with a hose pipe and it wouldn't leak! grr!

Thanks for all the help guys Took the car out of the
garage this morning and prayed for rain....but my Dad came
round this morning....saw the car was out....and put it back
in the garage So i've put it back outside for the night and
although i'm not happy about leaving her out on the street...
it's chucking it down outside I'll check her when i get
in from work tomorrow night and let yawl know if it's or

hosepipe/bucket of water

pettsy wrote:hosepipe/bucket of water

been there, done that!

NO MORE LEAKS My mate who put the new seals
on the windscreen recons that the leak was coming in
the windscreen.I'm not arguing.....all i know is that the inside
of my car is dry.THANKS AGAIN FOR THE TIPS GUYS