When I got into the car today after work I noticed that when I stepped on the floor mat it went squish. It was soaking wet.
Admittedly it has rained like crazy the last few days, but there was no way I could track in that much water. In the Miata world there are two main reasons why there would be a lot of water on the floor, not counting leaving the top down in the rain, a plugged drain in the door molding and a plugged A/C drain line.
The water was only on the driver’s side of the car which eliminates the A/C drain line because that soaks the passenger foot well. Must be the hollow in the door molding. I poked the long thin brush I have for cleaning Camelback hoses down there and it wasn’t plugged at all. A mystery.
I dried out the area as best I could and we’ll see if the water reappears.
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Years ago, I asked a friend who was the service manager at the Mazda dealer (I was driving a Mazda truck) what he would do if a person hypothetically left a window open and allowed 3 inches of rain inside the cab of the truck.
He thought about it a few mintues and then said “that’s not a valid question – no one could be that stupid.”
Needless to say, I had to look somewhere else for my answers…