My cold air feed is also a cold water feed

[Alexander 0]

Hello chums.

 

Had the C serviced yesterday - thankfully nothing major was needed but my mechanic pointed out that my air filter was pretty soggy, obviously the rain coming off the road going up through my cold air intake in the lower bumper.

 

Is there anything I can do to prevent this happening?

[davidwort 0]

leave the intake where VW intended it to be?

the mk1 GTI's had a low down pickup and occasionally destroyed the engine when driving through water

try moving the outside air temp sender to the 'behind-headlight' position, I doubt you get any different a reading than from the low down position.

it's probably swings and round-abouts, in the winter close to the road may be coldest, but in the summer the tarmac heating up can cause higher temps close to it

[Alexander 0]

Hmm OK that makes sense. It was like this when I bought the car, I didn't move it there myself.