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Originally Posted by dabbad
Okay, I am brand-new to the forum and I too have the 2001 Olds Aurora driver's side floorboard wet carpet problem. I have noticed that the carpet does NOT get wet at near the firewall where the gas and brake pedals are, but instead mainly gets wet just below the front of the front seat toward the middle (gearshift) of the car. That is where most of the water accumulates. I have removed the rubber/plastic cover at the bottom of the front windshield glass, where the windshield wipers are. I have siliconed every hole under the hood. I lay in the car and had my wife shoot a lot of water on the windshield and tested it with the rubber/plastic cover removed so that all you saw was the bottom of the windshield, and still NO water. I too have tried everything except the seal in the door. I will try that next and post back to this forum to see if it works. NEEDLESS to say, this will be my last GM vehicle. Close to 100 years of making cars, and GM still doesn't know how to prevent water from getting inside a car! What dorks these GM folks have become!
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had the same problem after a heavy rain . the center of the drivers floor was extremely wet. I checked the headliner, dry, the carpet was wet only in the center, the door panel dry. I felt around under the dash all was dry there too. I removed the trim from the pillar, and the edge of the floor, no signs of a leak anywhere. I lifted as much of the carpet as possible and could not see anywhere the water was entering the car. Next I checked the sunroof drains, the using a syringe, the right side vented water just behind the front wheel. The left side nothing. I reached under the carpet again and could not find where the water was entering.
I removed the kick panel, and found water was flowing down a larger wiring harness next to the emergency brake assembly. I removed the emergency brake assembly to have access to that area, and found a small access hole for the wiring for the drivers door. The rubber insulator the covers the entire kick panel side was wet near the hole. I ran more water through the sunroof drain, there was the leak. Although It is impossible to see into the hole, or get more the two fingers into it, I figured the drain tube became disconnected.
there was no way to reach inside to find the tubes, let alone reconnect or repair them. What I ended up doing
was to remove the inner fender from the drivers side, remove the drain tube exit, which is a rubber nipple looking thing about 8" above the bottom of the chasis panel. I was able to run a piece of wire through the exit hole to the small hole behind the kick panel. I put a piece of 3/8" vinyl tubing over the wire and managed to get the tubing through. next I pulled the tube that runs down the pillar out from the dash, careful not to disturb the upper part. I dropped a wire through the top of the dash down, and with a lot of effort managed to get it to exit the through the access hole behind the kick panel. I pulled the new tubing up with the wire and easily got it though the top of the dash. I cut the original line on the pillar just above another joint and slipped it into the new tubing @ 6", and siliconed the end. tested the drain to be sure there were no kinks, the water exited behind the wheel.
I have ended up with one piece tube from mid pillar to the exit in the wheel well, nothing to come apart again, and hopefully permanently fixed.