VW Golf 2014 | Part 1 | Water Leak Detection Service

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0:00 We're going to show you what we've got inside the car, and then we're going to go on and show you the problem. We're having signs of water in the driver's front footwell and the driver's rear. This is our special machine which detects water, so that's detecting water in my fingers. If we put that down here under the carpet, we can see that that is telling us that there's water underneath that carpet.

0:31 All right, now if we come to the back, we've took the back seat out. And if I just turn our torch on, I've lifted up the carpet as much as I can without taking out all the latrims, and we can see down there that it's soaking wet. And if we just lift that underlay up, so we can see there, we can see the water in the underlay. And the only thing is, if this is wet, nine times out of ten it goes up the bulkhead sponge underneath the pedals, and that's what takes quite a time to dry.

1:05 So just obviously show you this machine on the back, so it's telling us we've got water there, as we know of. Coming around into the boot, I've took the back boot section out, and we can see that there's water in the bottom here, and there's water in the box sections by the air vents. Coming around to the passenger side, passenger side doesn't feel wet underneath the car fit. But if I put our machine there, you can see that it's not reading anything, so it's telling me that it's dry around this section here. But it's telling me

1:37 it's wet here as well, up to around about here. The reason being is because when the water comes from the back, it will use this exit here as a slide and then runs down and fills up the footwells. I just want to put our machine in the front footwell just to see if there's any signs of any water underneath the carpets in the underlay, but okay, so that's telling me that there's no water underneath the front, so that's good. And now we're going to go on to the problem. And the reason

2:18 being is because obviously we need to take the seats out to suck out as much water as we can, and then from there we will put our super dryer machine in there. One or two reasons, and one to make sure everything's dry for electrics, because obviously water and electrics don't go together. And as well as a smell, because obviously water, when it's enclosed in a car, it can create mould and obviously horrible smells. And so we're just going to show you obviously what we found.

Nov
27
2023

In this video, James begins by showing where we have found water. Quite often a customer comes to us with a damp problem or steamed up windows, but it isn't evidence where the water is other than a general dampness.

As we have shown elsewhere, there can be considerable amounts of water under the carpets, so although you may believe you can dry the car out by putting the heater on and leaving the window open a crack, that is unlikely to dry the car unless you have very thin carpets. By the time you notice you have a problem, there could be several gallons of water sloshing around in the floor pans.

Water remaining in the car will first lead to damp smells, mildew, mould and fungus. You may also notice your windows getting steamed up in the mornings because the dampness in the air will condensate on the glass. However, it will also condensate on electrical systems, causing corrosion which can lead to failure.

In the next video, we will show the cause of the leak.

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