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Just spent the past couple of hours removing the leftover padding tucked right up beneath the dash, then did a hose down test. Seems the water is still coming in from the scuttle area. Removed the scuttle trim, and found a crack in the corner of the plastic mesh housing... wasn't there before so I'm not sure how that happened! Luckily I do have a replacement but I'll have to order a new gasket during the week. Bit confusing because the front used to properly leak before I replaced the gasket and re-sealed. I think my previous efforts may have just softened the leak. I think what is happening is the water is dripping down slower, and running along the 2 rubber deadening pieces towards the central tunnel, where it then travels down to the back and starts pooling. When I removed the rubber sound deadening it just soaked the front footwell. Fingers crossed this is the culprit. A hell of a lot easier to see what's happening when the carpet is out :) Tomorrows task - get it clean! Nick

Thanks Dave, badge arrived safely. Nick

Hi there, Tesco camping mats? The mind boggles! I paid £60 for that Jute felt so I'd better make the most of it! :lol: Do you know if any adhesive is required, both for the floor to foam, and foam to carpet? Semi getting too far ahead of myself as I still need to find the leak, but once the dash is out I'm hoping it'll be easy to spot. A colleague at work suggested I strap my carpet to the roof of another car and run it through a car wash. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious! No worries! I hope this thread will be useful for any other leakers. Opening the car to find a pool of water is a feeling nobody should go through :( Nick

I think OEM is best. Just don't waste your money on GSF/ECP pattern ones, I tried them on my old corrado and they were crap!

Hi Hasan, Not sure if this is anything like you suggested, but I ordered a roll of this stuff a couple of hours ago: http://www.as-trim.co.uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=8_48 Hopefully it'll do the job! And stay dry this time :) Nick

Thanks for your input - I will find something strong to plug that hole up in that case. The car has been sat for the past couple of days (in the rain) and it has soaked again. I've never noticed any ingress while driving but it'll be worth doing a stripped down road test once I collect my seats. The front sunroof channels are clear, the rears seem to be escaping fast enough too, but I think I may be closer to finding where the leak is coming from. Here's the passenger rear, as you can see the water has pooled in the areas highlighted. It appears to be running along the blue marks parallel to the centre tunnel as previously thought: In my haste a couple of days ago I forgot to remove some more padding on the front side as you can see (already removed 2 sheets, there was more under it!) so apologies for that. Also excuse the snapped plastic ABS ECU cover remains...that's going to be fun finding a beige replacement for that! Anyway, the purple area is completely rotten, this could be from the previous scuttle area leak (more padding to remove!), The yellow area is rotten, but strangely enough the orange area is dry, although the padding below is wet too. I think the best thing to do when I get more time is to remove the padding (sound proofing?) I overlooked and start pulling the dashboard out. It's going to be changed anyway but I think I have enough evidence to rule out the door membranes, rear lights and badges. Will also remove the pillar trim as suggested before. Will update the thread once I've made progress, but I'm really not looking forward to doing this job! Clearing up the talc alone is gonna be crap! Anyone know if the floor padding stuff is still available from VW? If not can I just get some from another VW and cut to suit. I guess Dynamat wouldn't be a good enough replacement? Nick

Chrome rear VR6 badge - £10 posted Will take if still available, if so please PM details. Cheers

No chance of it drying for a while then! Thanks for the link - the pictures of the doorcard are helpful and the company you mention (old school windscreens) could be worth calling if it turns out my windscreen is buggered. It was actually changed a couple of years back but the car leaked before and after anyway so I haven't really thought much of it!

Thanks for replying - The windscreen one sounds interesting, I'll remove the A pillar when I can and see if that's the culprit. All promising ideas so far, hopefully I'll trace it eventually! Now I'm wondering if it's safe to stick the carpet in a big washing machine at the laundromat :)

Davidwort! Hope you've been keeping well - glad to hear you're 2 are still running! The scuttle seal area doesn't seem to be letting in anything. Used a high pressure jet on it last week and nothing dripped onto the carpet like it used to, so I'm going to rule that one one. The foam that you mentioned in the rear well is completely dry so I'm assuming the badges and lights are water tight. I did change the rear lights to rule it out too. I haven't tried to low pressure hose on the glass, would the membrane be sodden to touch if it was leaking though? Because I removed the door card previously and it was completely clean and dry (I don't think it had ever been removed before!). I will get the hose out again though sometime this week and see what happens. I left work early today to remove the carpet as this leak was bugging me. The drivers side is completely dry, and as expected the passenger side is completely ruined! At first I didn't think it looked too bad. That was until I lifted the padding! (bad camera phone pic, sorry) Another thing I forgot to take a picture of. If you look closely at the top right of the mouldy padding, you'll see a rubber grommet looking thing stuck to it. Anyone know where that's supposed to go? See a pic further down as to a possible location! The front didn't look good either. There is mould which appears to be coming from the matrix area. I'm not sure if it has been changed at some point in the past, but I'm not losing any coolant and the leak is definitely water Is this hole supposed to be plugged? Here's an overall shot of the nastiness which lurks beneath: Something I did seem to spot was that the raised hump which splits the front and rear had water along it parallel to the central tunnel. Over the next couple of weeks I will be taking the dashboard out (swapping for another one, god help me) so if it turns out the leak was from the front then I'll have a better view of it. I have talced the whole floor (probably used a bit too much) so all I can do now is pray for the god of rain to unleash his fury! Any ideas anyone? On a side note, what is wrong with VW? My friends mk2 golf leaked water, my brothers mk4 leaked water and the fecking corrado does too! Nick

Hi there, thanks for the reply. Sorry, I should have mentioned that the car is parked on a flat driveway. For good measure I have been alternating which way I park just in case any slight angle would affect it. I will be removing the carpet hopefully this weekend but was wondering if anyone had a similar problem. The front is dry, even when stomping on the carpet to try and get anything soaked up! hear it's worth talcing the floor once the carpet is out so maybe that'll tell me what's happening. Carpet is due a clean anyway!

Good afternoon all, Firstly, it's nice to be back! After what seems like an eternity of working away I'm finally back to see the forum looking completely different (for the better so far). In the unlikely scenario that anyone was wondering what happened to me and my Corrado, it's still here and finally getting some TLC. Back on topic (already used forum search btw). The car did previously have a leak through the scuttle blower area, which in turn killed my ABS ECU and relay. That's been fixed now using generous amounts of silicon, new gasket and an SWG smooth scuttle for good measure. Now, the rear passenger footwell always gets wet in the rain and for the life of me I can't find where the f k it's coming from. Here's a picture: Things done/checked: - Sat in the car for 15 minutes whilst it was being hosed. Nothing comes through at all! - Took the passenger door card off, the membrane is all intact and everything feels dry/clean. - Removed rear seats and doorcard, dry and clean - Checked front sunroof drain channels, clear - Checked the puddle, it's water not coolant - Checked rear badges and lights, the boot is dry I've yet to check the rear channels, would i have to remove the headlining or do the channels run down a pillar trim somewhere in the back? Looking at the picture it would appear that it's leaking from above, but the headlining is dry and unstained plus I'd probably notice water dripping down... Anyone got any ideas or experiences as to where the water is getting in? I've just had to replace the entire alarm as it was false alarming... I'm hoping it wasn't due to water damage because that would mean my alarm would be next! Next weekend I'll be removing the carpet as there's probably a nasty mess lurking beneath! Cheers, Nick

Big shame to hear. Anything we can do to convince you to keep her? :norty: I've found a buyer for my old flat, meaning I have to empty the garage. In there is a (working) bare KR block, front 16v brakes and lots of other random valver bits which could be donated (Just need them gone otherwise they'll be scrapped and I'm rubbish at selling). Had some interest in terms of collection but nobody has really committed so it's first come first serve. You know it makes sense! ;) Nick

Out of my depth, but I do have a set of assembled VR6 hubs/bearing housings which can be donated to the cause. They were kindly gifted to me by alex303 (I needed the brake bits) so send the beer to him! I don't mind covering postage, but they are heavy buggers! Did you need just 1? Nick

Looking good! You know, those wheels aren't too bad! How long has it been in total since you've not had it? Nick

White one with what looked like a Reiger kit, Kwik Fit Dorking on Saturday (I was driving past)

Full service for mine, slave to the stamp!

Belt could be too tight as well, hopefully that and a bleed will cure your problems although when mine started whining loads it became apparent that the pump was knackered!

Dark VR6 in Coulsdon driving past me, reg ended in OUU or something :salute:

PM sent (i think - stupid phone!) Nick

If it's any help to you, I have a bare KR engine (i.e. just the block and head) you could have for free if collected. One of the water pump bolts sheared but could be removed with easy outs or something. It's done around 115k IIRC and tbh could do with the room otherwise it'll be scrapped. Nick

With ET15 9s on the rear, you're gonna struggle with adaptors! You'd need some archwork doing, more than rolling I reckon Nice wheel though :)

Paranormal Activity 3....alright if you like that kind of thing, but a fair few plot holes! 6.5/10

Working for me!

Seeming as it was cleaned for the first time in forever: