[infiniti23]

Car is G35 sedan, 2003 ...

I pulled the carpet, which didn't fit properly, because when I did my deadening, I put a little too much overkill in. My goal was to pull the carpet, remove the overkill, then re-add some to get the carpet to fit right ....

I pulled the overkill and noticed that the bottom of it was wet. To my shock, I saw the Spectrum coating was bubbled up in the depressed portion of the floor pan closest to the door on the passenger side of the car. There was about 1/8 inch standing water. I peeled this away to find the Damplifier Pro was also wet with a thin layer of standing water. Ok, my first thought was a leak through the A/C condensation drain would runs on that side of the car, but I found the SAME issue on the drivers side ...

Anybody have any ideas what the heck is going on and how this could have happened?

 

[drtool]

If somebody did not leave your window(s) down etc. I would take it to a good body shop to find the problem.Did you buy it new, has the windshield been replaced. You know where I am going.
Wayne

 

[infiniti23]

I've owned it since day 1. The leak is not the windshield or the doors. The carpet was not wet, neither was the top layers of foam. Only the very bottom layers of foam, and then the paint on deadener and the Damplifier ...

I am boggled, truly boggled as to how it got there. The water was a brownish orange color, very dirty looking ...

I guess my biggest concern is, has this water been pooling there for years, and maybe couldn't evaporate because it was trapped in foam. Or was this the result of heavy rain just last night?

 

[infiniti23]

I think we figured this one out ...

And for all the beginners and young installers, this is a prime example of cutting corners, or putting something off and forgetting about it ...

I didn't put two and two together until now. When I pulled my tweeters from the kick panel a couple weeks ago, I noticed the sticker on the back off them had gotten wet at some point ...

Well, when I run my wires from my midbass through the car and back about three years ago, we drilled a hole in the sheet metal, but never sealed it off (like a total dumbass). I meant to go back and do that. Apparently, when it has been raining, water has been shooting through these holes into the floor pans. No water on the carpet, because there is no carpet where the water would fall ...

For the timebeing, I would like to change my name to Mr. Dumass ...

 

[sqshoestring]

Pull it out, get someone to start spraying it with a hose. Check the heater core. Once that stuff gets in there it never goes away, it just rusts the floor out.

 

[vidizzle]

you should really look to seal that up quick and treat the metal with a rust proof paint so ur floor wont be eaten away by rust

 

[infiniti23]

Luckily, it never even got close to the floor. There is 3 mm of Spectrum, and at LEAST 3 layers of Damplifier Pro on that floor .... It never made it past the first layer of Damplifier ....