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TheSlowLX

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About a month ago, I replaced my carpet because sometimes on the passenger side, the carpet gets wet. My old carpet was soaked pretty bad and started smelling. I already have the heatercore lines bypassed. Ive had them bypassed for around 8 months becuase I thought that would fix the problem of the carpet getting wet. Obviously not. I did remove all the padding and stock carpet (wight reduction) and just installed a pepboys carpet on there. What would could cause my carpet to be moist and wet? Any help.
 

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I told you to put those dirty magazines away...








































Only thing i can think of would be the heater core, How exactly did you bypass it? Did you move the ECT and plug up the water pump port? Or just connect both ends of the heater core lines. More info and i can help. lol
 

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Crawl under your car and look at the floor boards. There is a seam where the 'firewall' meets the floor pan. This is a very good area for rust to form (overlaping joints)

If you can't see any rust or holes... Your heater core could still have some liquid in it that is spilling out.
 
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Dbeck002 said:
Only thing i can think of would be the heater core, How exactly did you bypass it? Did you move the ECT and plug up the water pump port? Or just connect both ends of the heater core lines. More info and i can help. lol
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If i can remember all i did was just remove the hoses going into the firewall and connect them together. So there is no hose going in or out of the firewall.
 

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mmmmmm wet carpet were can i get me some of that poo tang
 
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shttygtstang said:
mmmmmm wet carpet were can i get me some of that poo tang
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inside my car for sure!
 

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TheSlowLX said:
About a month ago, I replaced my carpet because sometimes on the passenger side, the carpet gets wet. My old carpet was soaked pretty bad and started smelling. I already have the heatercore lines bypassed. Ive had them bypassed for around 8 months becuase I thought that would fix the problem of the carpet getting wet. Obviously not. I did remove all the padding and stock carpet (wight reduction) and just installed a pepboys carpet on there. What would could cause my carpet to be moist and wet? Any help.
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i had a similar problem but it wound up being the body seam behind the dash also suspect the windshield
 

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maybe some ones f?cking with ya do you lock er car......it would be funny though
 

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Dbeck002 said:
I told you to put those dirty magazines away...
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My guess is that you still have an operational air conditioner. If you don't then you need not read any further.

If so, the drain hole for the evaperator is probably plugged. The drain itself is on the driver's side firewall and actually drips onto the stock header location. The fix is very high tech and you're going to require a special tool.

Get a coat hanger, cut off the end, jam it up through the drain in the engine compartment and roto-root that bad boy till you see the water start to come out.
 

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tb9050lx said:
i had a similar problem but it wound up being the body seam behind the dash also suspect the windshield
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Daggar said:
My guess is that you still have an operational air conditioner. If you don't then you need not read any further.

If so, the drain hole for the evaperator is probably plugged. The drain itself is on the driver's side firewall and actually drips onto the stock header location. The fix is very high tech and you're going to require a special tool.

Get a coat hanger, cut off the end, jam it up through the drain in the engine compartment and roto-root that bad boy till you see the water start to come out.
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lol
 

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This probably won't help at all but I had a wet floor behind the drivers seat. It started after I replaced the door weatherstrip. I had a slight crease in the corner and that was enough for a slow drip. Car smelled bad all winter. Soon as summer hit I found the problem, moved the weatherstrip around, and the car baked in the heat for a month. Everything is dry, cleaned up and smells like new car.
 

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hahaha
 

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Daggar said:
My guess is that you still have an operational air conditioner. If you don't then you need not read any further.

If so, the drain hole for the evaperator is probably plugged. The drain itself is on the driver's side firewall and actually drips onto the stock header location. The fix is very high tech and you're going to require a special tool.

Get a coat hanger, cut off the end, jam it up through the drain in the engine compartment and roto-root that bad boy till you see the water start to come out.
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My windshield leaks. I pulled the carpet back in the pass. side front and poured a quart of water at the base of the pass. side windshield. It came into the car.

My door weatherstrips were leaking, rather than replacing them I filled the cracks with black silicone gasket maker. I spread it with some thin cardboard and shape it. Give it 30 min. and shut the door. It takes the shape of the weatherstrip and seals the car. Saves $ too.
 
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Daggar said:
My guess is that you still have an operational air conditioner. If you don't then you need not read any further.

If so, the drain hole for the evaperator is probably plugged. The drain itself is on the driver's side firewall and actually drips onto the stock header location. The fix is very high tech and you're going to require a special tool.

Get a coat hanger, cut off the end, jam it up through the drain in the engine compartment and roto-root that bad boy till you see the water start to come out.
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Yeah my airconditioner still works and I use it all the time. Ill give this a try and see what happens. Thanks.
 
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I had to use the coat hanger trick also. It drained for about 5 mins before all of the water was out. I was thinking mine was on the passenger side, but that was years ago.
 
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happened to my moms grand prix gtp, and the a/c drainage line was clogged and the passenger carpet had like an inch of water
 
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