Ka - Water in drivers footwell

Lift the rubber strips, the bodyshell tends to rot out under the door seals etc.

PDH

check the heater drains for leaves

Ex wife to be? Leave the bloody thing ;)

In message , Krycek writes

Is that not why he's getting the hose out- to fill the thing up? ;-)

Finding water in the drivers' footwell isn't as common as in the passenger footwell.

Some Kas have a problem whereby water gets in behind the door mirror plastic, but as I understood these were only the early machines and not the later ones. The water dribbles down the door, shorting speakers, central locking and occasionally window switches :-/ before forming a puddle.

Does the Ka have air conditioning? If it does and your ex-to-be (?) has been running it, I suspect a blocked drain pipe. By all accounts these are easy to spot... but I never found ours and it needed relocating a couple of times. Is the water very cold?

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Ex wife to be? You mean the Ka makes her not want to be a Leak any more?

In just 3 and a half years?! That's a disgrace.

So what's new? I have not touched a Ford in years due to the build quality, the car I had that turned me against Ford spent more time in the garage draining my pocket than on the road. Ford gives you less, as they should have said in the adverts at the time. :o(

Besides, I did mention that VAG offerings have the aluminium washers in the brake system that rot in as little as three years, this in another thread. Don't get me wrong, no manufacturer is perfect, never will be. The hard part when buying a car is getting advice on what CAN go wrong. From personal experience I would not touch anything from Ford, VAG, Fiat/Alfa, but that's just me, you probably have a different view on good and bad.

Rdgs

PDH

Not a different view, but I'd just add Rover, MG, Proton and Hyundai to the list. I'll stick to Japanese for my own cars, regarding as boring by some, but a car should primarily be for transport from A to B (or Z, if you're into that stuff), so it doesn't have to be more than that necessarily.

That depends though.

I could either drink copious quantities of beer and chant soccer songs...

...or take my car on track days.

Neither is right nor wrong, they're just different.

The current wife's Ka had this problem - pipe runs from central console under the carpet on the (forget term - the raised strip between passenger and driver's seat) and out through a grommet to vent to outside.

In the current wife's case - some blockage in the area of the central console - popped the pipe from the grommet. Insert into mouth. Blow. Reconsider wisdom, as 3 months of stagnent water pours into mouth. Make good and it'll be fine for another couple of years.