W124 estate Footwell wet

sheehae1

New Member
Joined
Oct 7, 2012
Messages
9
Reaction score
0
Location
Aberdeen & Kerry ROI
Your Mercedes
W124/1996/220
Folks,

does anyone have any issues with water under the drivers and passenger footwell carpets? W124 E220 Estate Auto

I just happened to lift these up while cleaning and noticed a few cups of water in each footwell and the sponge under the carpet was sodden. There was no sign of any damp on the carpet top though.

I have stripped out the carpets and hung these out to dry to get water out of sponge, and dried out the footwells.

Expecting rain later this week, so will see how quickly these flood.

Just curious if anyone has any ideas of what might be causing this.

Thanks

Eamon
 

television

Always remembered RIP
Joined
Mar 14, 2005
Messages
164,073
Reaction score
367
Age
89
Location
Daventry
Your Mercedes
2002 SL500, 216 CL500, all fully loaded
I have the info that you can have on the drains, It is hard to clean the front sun roof drains as the pipes go behind the dash, the heater box could be blocked
 

kingdave

Active Member
Joined
Feb 10, 2010
Messages
26
Reaction score
0
Your Mercedes
I've left the forum - can still be found on others, just don't have time to read them all.
Pretty much any leak can cause this I'd have thought, I've had tailgate seal ingress and boot side window leakage and the water seemed to migrate, sometimes to front footwells. Bolide has mentionned this in posts before now - suspecting water evaporates by day and condenses elsewhere by night.

Cleaning the drains is definitely a good idea! just wanted to chip in that it might not be the only/main problem.
 
Last edited:

SL63 Mark

Senior Member
Joined
Oct 1, 2012
Messages
4,514
Reaction score
2,589
Location
The South
Your Mercedes
R231 SL63 AMG
Pretty much any leak can cause this I'd have thought, I've had tailgate seal ingress and boot side window leakage and the water seemed to migrate, sometimes to front footwells. Bolide has mentionned this in posts before now - suspecting water evaporates by day and condenses elsewhere by night.

Cleaning the drains is definitely a good idea! just wanted to chip in that it might not be the only/main problem.

On one car I had, the seams in the sills and floor pan leaked as well as the windscreen, the rear screen, the wheel arches and the door seals ! Best thing to do is dry it out then keep an eye on where the water is coming from. On some cars you will never fix this. The 230 seems ok now, once I cleared out the heater box drain, so that is definitely where I would start.
 
Last edited:

television

Always remembered RIP
Joined
Mar 14, 2005
Messages
164,073
Reaction score
367
Age
89
Location
Daventry
Your Mercedes
2002 SL500, 216 CL500, all fully loaded
We have had many post on the rear fixed side windows on the estate where they leak as the metal is rusty.

Do take up my offer for the water drain paper, it will make your life easier
 

tony jr

Senior Member
Joined
May 5, 2009
Messages
581
Reaction score
10
Location
Nottingham
Your Mercedes
GL320 X164 2007
Folks,

does anyone have any issues with water under the drivers and passenger footwell carpets? W124 E220 Estate Auto

I just happened to lift these up while cleaning and noticed a few cups of water in each footwell and the sponge under the carpet was sodden. There was no sign of any damp on the carpet top though.

I have stripped out the carpets and hung these out to dry to get water out of sponge, and dried out the footwells.

Expecting rain later this week, so will see how quickly these flood.

Just curious if anyone has any ideas of what might be causing this.

Thanks

Eamon

This happened to me on both my 124's. The first time I was advised wrongly by the dealer to change the door seal! It turned out to be an accumulation of dead leaves under the top-end of the bonnet that divered the rain water so that it came in through the air intake. Cleaned the leaves out and problem resolved - did take a while to dry out the floor pan carpet and insulating foam.
 

JBell

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 9, 2011
Messages
14,845
Reaction score
7,186
Location
Torquey
Your Mercedes
C350 CDi Estate (GAD Edition)
Can you send me the instructions for a W203 Estate as well please to jonathan-bell at Hotmail.co.uk as my boot was damp
 
Last edited:

hotrodder

Senior Member
Joined
Oct 18, 2008
Messages
894
Reaction score
26
Your Mercedes
'93 320te, '54 ragtop beetle (in bits)
There's already multiple online sources for pretty much all the WIS type stuff (and a bunch more) for w124 owners, here's one example http://www.w124performance.com/service/Main.html which being American doesn't include the 4 pot petrol engines but everything else applies including drains...

http://www.w124performance.com/service/w124CD1/Program/Maintenance/My81/6030.pdf

As NW_Merc the sketches in WIS papers are often nowhere near as good 'how tos' from people that've done the job and taken pics etc as the former are aimed at experienced [strike]mechanics[/strike] fitters that know what they're doing. The problem with the later is that someone needs to take the time to do them and (generalising) it's relatively rare for someone to post back after fixing their problem let alone take the time to document it to help others and break the vicious circle that results in pages and pages of email address requests clogging up the interweb

As said water often collects miles away from where it entered the car i.e. wet front footwells could be as simple as some dead leaves blocking the scuttle drains or it could be far more convoluted... if the leak is at the back, say, from the boot side windows there'd usually be other clues like those windows steaming up regularly despite the paddling pool in the front footwells
 

television

Always remembered RIP
Joined
Mar 14, 2005
Messages
164,073
Reaction score
367
Age
89
Location
Daventry
Your Mercedes
2002 SL500, 216 CL500, all fully loaded
All sent and it will be a big help :D
 

John Laidlaw

Senior Member
Joined
Nov 15, 2013
Messages
26,373
Reaction score
9,163
Location
Wirral
Your Mercedes
Land Rover Discovery 4
Unfortunately Malcolm is poorly at the moment, not sure if anyone else can jump in with this info?
 

Simon Harrison

Registered
Joined
May 10, 2017
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
Your Mercedes
1994 W124 (S124) E300 Diesel estate
Hi All,

Forum newbie here, also with lots of water in the passenger footwell of a 1994 W124 estate. Indications seem to be pointing at the heater box drains, and I gathered from previous posts that television has a good document on this. I sent him a private message but have just seen the comment above that he has not been well - I'm sorry to hear that, and hope he is better soon.

Does anyone else have a copy of his document that they could send on to me? If so let me know and I can send contact details.

Thanks in advance!
 

bigcpg

Registered
Joined
Jul 24, 2010
Messages
1
Reaction score
0
I have the info that you can have on the drains, It is hard to clean the front sun roof drains as the pipes go behind the dash, the heater box could be blocked
Hi Could you put up the info you have for clearing the drain pipes on the W124 sunroof and heater box as my w124 estate has water in the front passenger side footwell and also water in the boot showing its coming from the passenger side rear A pillar.
 

Csp

New Member
Joined
Apr 11, 2021
Messages
4
Reaction score
0
Your Mercedes
W124 320te
I have the info that you can have on the drains, It is hard to clean the front sun roof drains as the pipes go behind the dash, the heater box could be blocked
Hi television. Please could I get a copy of your pdf relating to W124 leaks. We have a bad case on a 320te. My email address is csp43@btopenworld.com. Thanks Craig
 


www.W140.co.uk&www.r129.co
Specialist in parts for W140 and R129 Mercedes-Benz models.
Top Bottom