OT: Paging Passat fans and VAGisti.

Get rid of it - get a Mondeo, they don't leak :-)

No, you just don't notice the leaks, 'cos they drain straight through the holes in the floor. :-P

I happen to have a rather nice, but TDDi engined Mondeo Estate for sale...

Which could be the answer, check the drain holes in the sills on the Pissant. They may be blocked with Caledonian Crap.

Heh. Spoilsport.....

This happened to my Primula. You could hear water sloshing about inside the sills under braking and accelleration.

How much? Spec/pics/mileage/etc...?

I'm enjoying chucking my Primera about, but the running costs nag at my yorkshire-bred brain...

There's a bloke mega interested in it who's coming to look at it again tomorrow but he seems to be a bit of a windowlicker.

Mondeo estates are quite good fun to hurl about, and incredibly huuuuuuge in the back.

There should be a plastic membrane sealing the inside of the door behind the door card. If this has been damaged or isn't stuck down properly then water will get into the car.

The front doors have metal panels in them rather than plastic membranes, are the rear doors different?

I should probably go out and check (c:

Sounds interesting. I'm not too fussy about creature comforts, but I assume the mondeos all had a/c by then?

Heh. Fair enough. Let me know if he doesn't take it.

According to the wikipedia, Ford basically snaffled the suspension design from the primera for the mondeo, hence the tidy handling. I wouldn't complain about that, anyway - the Primula is pretty enjoyable to chuck up and down the place.

Update: A bead of silicon has been laid round the lower edges of the metal panel as there was evidence that water had been seeping through the seal round the bottom.

I'll park it outside tomorrow and try filling the door with water to see what happens. (c:

Zetecs did..

Will do.

Wikipedia knows nuffink.

Cool. haha. /ahem.

Ta muchly.

True enough. For quite a few weeks, one of my mates was apparently President of the Dominican Republic. Turns out that it wasn't true at all..

Right, the Mondeo looks like it's sold - subject to finance - so it's gone to the bodyshop today for a bit of a fettle. I'll let you know if anything changes.

Kewl...

Right you are. No worries. Keep me in mind if anything similar pops up at sensible money though, if you don't mind.

Heh. Our entire subnet has been banned from editing the wiki now, for some altogether unconnected reason.. :-)

That's what I was going to say. IIRC they should be held on by a sort of mastic that stays rubbery - like 3M body caulking. The thing is, a lot of cars have drainage channels built into the door skin, and if you glue the membrane up at the bottom it gets a chance to have a head of water and the increased pressure eventually bursts it. The best place to apply sealant is to the bottom of the guttering inside the car door. OTOH if it fixes it for a while, you might as well wait for it to leak again.

How many horses to they have, and how much?

Drain holes blocked beneath the battery. Remove battery and clear drain holes.

Thanks, I googled that too, and checked it out. It's a common problem I believe, but its fine under there in this case.

However, when I pour water into the back doors, I can see most of it run out the drain holes and some of it run out from under the door card, inside the door seal and into the rear footwells.

The problem is a faulty bead of sealant on the lower edge of the metal panel inside the door. I've run some sealant round the bottom of the inner door panel on both doors but I've made an arse of it on one side, I'll try and take some pictures of it when I open the door up to try again.

Accompanied by the sound of a chisel on slate Doki, managed to produce the following words of wisdom

Appears to be either 90 or 115. I imagine this one will have been a 90.

We normally sell them for between 2750 and 3500 depending on age, spec, etc. Occasionally get mega plenty cheapness ones.

I'm picking up a Toyota Pious today (Thursday)...