stuartholmes

Wondered about that so will give it a closer look when the rain stops. Although maybe now is when I should look... Got it booked into my garage to have high pressure air blown up the drainage channels & see whether that helps. (But garage is very popular so three weeks to wait & keep mopping up!!)

Thank you Steve & Cliff, sorry to be so long acknowledging your suggestions. Unfortunately didn't find the solution but since discovered a proper pool in the spare wheel well so attention now on something wrong at the back end & water woking it's way forward from there. I'll update when there is better news in case it helps someone else.

Today I have removed more than 4L of rainwater by running a carpet shampoo machine over the carpet in driver's footwell of a 2007 A3 Cabriolet. I'm writing this with one hand while the other is holding the sucky thing in the corner beside the accelerator pedal (the wettest bit) where I can see it is still sucking up more. I don't know whether 4L will become 5. Where on earth can all that water have been? (Apart from in the clouds of course.) We got (very) wet carpets a couple of weeks ago immediately after I washed & re-proofed the roof, it seemed suspiciously close to co-incidental but rainwater sat on the roof in lovely looking beads so I don't think it was soaking in & worming it's way down the A pillar. Booked it in to our lovely garage & they cleaned out the drainage channels, which I think helped but certainly didn't cure the problem - as this weekend's rain has proven. I know we have lots of spongy stuff for sound deadening under the carpets but enough to hold 5 of your best European litres? Does abody have any idea where that water can have been and more importantly how to keep more out??? Thank you. Stuart