Opinion's on mystery water under car

[Ray1965 10]

I was looking under the car to inspect the floor pan's etc. When i spotted some water around the hole on the chassis runner on the drivers side, there is one either side. don't know if this is normal? anyone shed any light on this?

 

[VAG-hag 0]

Is that a drain hole ray? Chassis looks well solid!

[Ray1965 10]

Hi Chris , i presume it's a drain hole but where does the water come from is it from the sunroof? Not sure if there should be any water there anyway.

MOT tester said it's good underneath.

Edited March 22, 2015 by Ray1965

[Dox 23]

Carpets wet?

[seanl82 23]

It's a factory drain hole I think from when they put the galvanised coating on. Sunroof drains come out inside the arch, just in front of the a pillars.

[Ray1965 10]

Carpets wet?

 

First thing i did was to check the carpets, they are dry.

[Jim Bowen 1]

Noticed it on mine before, think it finds its way in from the front end somehow. Am going to spray some penetrating wax in all these sort of voids soon.

[Ray1965 10]

Noticed it on mine before, think it finds its way in from the front end somehow. Am going to spray some penetrating wax in all these sort of voids soon.

 

Yes Jim good idea the wax treatment. I was concerned i had a coolant leak but looking now how can coolant get into the chassis? I think not.

[Jim Bowen 1]

Worst bit on mine, i took a chisel to the under seal to scrape bits off and on the back end i broke the seal and all this old brown water came out and the underside of car was rusting away underneath.

 

Its worth poking any bulging bits of under seal as its so tough the rust won't break through until its quite bad.