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Re: [T3] FW: Water soaking my car


On 6 Dec 2001, at 9:29, Y and C Everhart wrote:

> One other possibility that I've seen is under the sill plate there sometimes is
> a rust hole that lets much of the door water drain into the heater channel, and
> then out the vent opening and back to your battery.  Pull the aluminum sill
> plate off (it's only pinched in position) and check under it. Might be somewhat
> rare, but an easy check anyway.

You're right, there are some holes there that feed into the rocker volume, but 
I think that water that gets in there should drain out of the bottom seam of 
the rocker. That lower region usually gets clogged up with rust, however.

The interior of the rocker is really very complicated with all the pieces that 
make up the heater channel. Most people don't realize how many layers of 
sheet metal there are in there, and I still don't know what it looks like at the 
front, where the heat turns up toward the dash. By the time I get a chance to 
look in there these parts are all rusted away.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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