strange leaking

ClockworkC5 · 07-08-2011, 01:54 PM

not my car, but my girlfriends 03 dodge stratus. water is appearing inside the vehicle soaking the floor mats. the windows and sunroof dont leak and theres no indication of where the waters coming in from. the car will be sitting there all night, come out next day and the floor panels are soaked. no rain, no homeless people using for an f shack (movie the other guys joke), no clue. im going to check the coolant levels and see if its not something leaking from the heater coil or anywhere else. this ones got me pretty stumped so far. if were not enduring hurricane like forces this weekend im hoping to do some investigating. ANY ideas?

chris308 · 07-08-2011, 02:15 PM

like on C5's if the AC drain gets plugged it will leak into the floor board, you can check the AC drain on her car just a thought.

**Rich Z** · 07-08-2011, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by chris308

like on C5's if the AC drain gets plugged it will leak into the floor board, you can check the AC drain on her car just a thought.

Yeah, that would be my guess. Coolant would have a pretty noticeable odor associated with it.

Is the car driven the day before this happens? Try driving it a day without running the AC and see if the problem doesn't appear then. Probably easier said than done with the temps like they are lately, though...

mickeystoysz16 · 07-09-2011, 09:10 AM

I second (or third I can't tell which number in line i am) on the AC drain plug.

Z06 Rocket · 07-10-2011, 06:09 PM

I had a previous truck with an A/C problem that did the same thing.

ClockworkC5 · 07-11-2011, 08:21 AM

thanks for the input. one of her friends is mechanical and going to look into it today. ill post up what they end up finding.