So lucky for me I have only one seat in the car and no carpet......yesterday coming home from work in the pouring rain, the floor on the passenger side started to get water on it..... a lot of water!! A LOT !!!

Lucky for me I know a thing or two, and my indy is on the way home.... I rolled in and shut er' down quick before it overheated...... jumped out screaming "HELP, I have a coolant leak" Within minutes we diagnosed it as a bad heater core. Turned out to be a bigger problem as we also discovered my impeller had come apart which was likely the reason for the core going...So I have an appointment to get the windshield re-sealed early next week

Thought I was thru with water problems

 

the ghosts of 996's past are looking for you Ed....

 

heater core... ha.

 

Seriously, do you heave heat, of any kind, in that beetle?

 

hahahahaa!

it has the most convoluted heater control set up I have ever seen...there are 4 places to make changes
1. the dash (about 5 sliding "things")
2. the console in front of the gear selector
3. 2 levers behine the gear selector
4. a switch on the center console between the seats

with the right combination of these, you keep busy enough to forget what your were trying to accomplish

 

My 86 always had great heat... AC, not so much.... but toasty heat!

 

"back in the day" I always had a towel on the passenger seat of the BUG... I hope that is not something that will be required as defrosters!

 

Sorry to hear, Ed. Did the impeller inside the heater actually come apart? I just replaced the left side blower motor on that car before you took ownership.

 

Wow sounds like a 59 VW bugs arrangement of heater controls. Your car really has water flow for heat? I was thinking it was air cooled with chambers around the headers, oh well. As far as defogging the windshield I thought that's what the a/c is for

I remember many a days in germany getting in a vw van that was water cooled and it still wouldn't pass enough heat till past caring.

Oh yah. Your windshield seal leaking is a good thing to fix to end flooding Go cruise the Willamette valley this fall and winter to test it
Marry's Peak out of Corvallis and on to the coast would be a good cruise.

 

No Mike, the windshield leaked badly in the rain about 3 cups of water on the passenger floor from Bothell to home!!! - the post was a spoof, "coolant leak"....... I got it fixed today and well, no rain so I dont know how the turn out is.

is the 99' up and running?

 

Ed, you could have just drilled a 1" hole in the floor pan. Water would have drained right out.

 

HAHA
well to be honest I thought the water was coming "UP" and I had no idea how so much water would do that

Gravity made more sense, running down a spot in the front, then along the tunnel and puddling right where the passenget seat "should be" - I mean a lot of water!

 

OK, then drill a 2" hole!

 

I'm on it

 

hehehe nice guy. Yah if it were oregon then the rain would be traveling up, sideways and down just like the moss on all sides of a tree in oregon. Washington I don't think you guys have it that bad but it could be part of global warming. Hey it could be sprouting a sun roof.