Vauxhall Omega (aka Leaky Lily) rapidly filling with water

[Richard Davies]

I have a 99 Omega CDX estate, with an interesting leak somewhere that
dumps water into the nearside front footwell. It appears to run down
behind the insulating foam on the front of the footwell before pooling
in the bottom of the car. I inherited a badly fitted windscreen with
the car, and got it reseated. This didn't stop the water ingress but
it did at least sort out the 2 obvious leaks in the windscreen seal!!
Please, please, please help. I've been told today that I should check
the sunroof drain channels. I'm a manicured-handed IT engineer, so
apart from rebooting the car (quite satisfying actually, using size 12
DMs) I need a bit of hand holding with anything else.

Cheers

Rich

[Jiffy]

Try pouring water down the sunroof drain channels and seeing if it's
draining out properly through the bottom of the wings.

Cheers, Jiffy

[Will Reeve]

Jiffy wrote:
> Try pouring water down the sunroof drain channels and seeing if it's
> draining out properly through the bottom of the wings.
>
> Cheers, Jiffy

There is also a couple of drain holes under the bonnet in the wings which
drain off the water flowing off the windscreen. They should have little
plastic sieves on them, if they get blocked with leaves the water can build
up and leak down the wiring loom into the car.

Will

[rp]

On 18 Oct 2004 12:12:33 -0700, Richard Davies wrote:

>I have a 99 Omega CDX estate, with an interesting leak somewhere that
>dumps water into the nearside front footwell. It appears to run down
>behind the insulating foam on the front of the footwell before pooling
>in the bottom of the car.

There is a drain hole underneath the plastic cover around the
windscreen wipers and if that gets blocked water can fill up and
overflow into the air intake and from there run down into the passenger
footwell. I think you can see it if you open the access flap to the
pollen filter (on the nearside just below the windscreen). The drain
hole is in the center of the car at the bottom of that void.

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[Richard Davies]

Guys,

Thanks a lot for your very good (and clear) advice. If it's not weeing
down on Saturday, I'll be up to my elbows in car muck :)

Cheers

Rich