Ford Fiesta 2015 | Leaking with wet carpets

0:00 We have a Fiesta 2015 today for our water leak procedure, so we're just going to show you what we've found. We've just put the hose up behind the rear bumper, and as we can see here, we can see that the rear air vent is allowing water to pass through and then drip into the box section.

0:16 It is a very common fault. If I just quickly pull our camera out, and we can see these two holes here, which are right here, and we can see that the bottom hole there is actually letting water pass through. So what they do from the factory is they put blanking tape over these, so it's just like sticky tape.

0:37 And so obviously that's leaking. From as far as I can see, it only seems like the near side rear is leaking from the back. I have tested the driver's side, and I can't seem to see any leaks coming through. The one thing I can see is that the blanking tape on this side, even though it's not leaking, we can see that there's creases in the tape.

1:10 So obviously it's not been put down flat. So obviously that won't take long and then it will start leaking in eventually. There's no, I can't find any evidence at the moment, boot, that it's wet, and so I suppose that's one good sign. And but obviously that does filter into a box section. Sometimes some people do take the grommets out the back. And we can see that the rear bumper is not actually lined up properly, so it's possibly it's had the rear bumper off in its life. And then if we quickly focus on this driver's door, what we're going to do is we're

1:41 going to pour some water down the back of the window, just simulating this out in the rain. And then if we come down to the bottom, it should exit out through the bottom of the door, which is doing. And but as we can see here, we have a run mark coming from the door panel, and that would be from the door membrane. So what that would then do is it would build up on this rubber here, and then what it would then do is then slowly work its way into the car. And if we just quickly lift this

2:07 map, there's a little spy hole down here on the Fiestas. And if I just quickly press this here, we can see that it's soaking wet under there. And then if we quickly come to the rear, help if we could actually see it, so let me just pull the seat forward. Okay, so we can see the footwell here. If I push down, we can see how much water is actually underneath that carpet, so that's absolutely soaked. And there we go, so that's what we've found so far.