Ford B-Max 2012 | Part 2 | Water Leak Detection

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0:00 OK, so we're now on the driver's side, so we've just done the same again. I've just released the bumper a little bit, just so we can get the hose up behind onto the rear air vent. We've got our little camera here, so what I want to do is I just want to get this... Right, OK, so there we go.

0:23 So we can see the water coming in at the bottom of the vent now, filling up the box section. But you can see that that vent's obviously letting a lot of water in on that, on the driver's side as well. So we've got two rear air vents, and we've got a bit of an impact on the nearside rear.

0:40 Basically what it's doing is, then when it fills up, it then fills into this section, and then it uses these as a guide to go underneath the rear seat. And then once it gets under the rear seat, it then goes into the footwells and then will collect to the front. Just to show you, obviously we know about the front, there we go, so we can see how wet it is in there.

1:07 So that's the driver's side. And just to quickly show you as well, just while we haven't got the hose up on this near side, whereabouts is it? Right, okay, now if we look very closely there, this seam here is where we're getting the sunlight through, and so obviously we could do with cleaning that up and resealing this weld here. But this is obviously culprit as well, which is filling in the passenger box section.

Jan
12
2021

The second part of the video on this leaking Ford B-Max showing the extent of the water damage and where it is coming from.

Solution: The rear air vents will be replaced with new ones, the holes in the weld will be sealed, and then we will need to dry the car. There's a lot of water in this one and the seats will have to come out, so we can lift the carpet and extract the water underneath. 

Question: "My carpets are wet, but it feels soapy and there is a sweet sticky smell."

Answer: That sounds like it might be a coolant leak. You should take that to your local garage, as they should be able to track down where it's coming from. Unfortunately, coolant is designed not to evaporate, so drying out your car will be harder, and it's likely it will need to be washed out. You could always give us a call.  

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