Wet Feet
 

Sometimes (always lately, but only sometimes last year) after it rains there is standing water in the driver's footwell of my '02. I assume it is just some clogged drain. Where are the drains on the NBs, and which ones would cause water to fill the footwell? I need to fix this, since my car now smells bad because of it.

If it's not just a clogged drain, what else should I check?

When that happened to my wife's old NA, it was because I screwed up the rain rail install when I replaced the top. It leaked into the footwell so bad there was standing water when it rained.

I was very close to selling the car at the time, so that floor received a few more drain holes. Problem solved. (or band-aided)

I wouldn't do that to a car I cared about, though.

It doesn't seem to be leaking in from the back, since the carpet isn't wet under the seat. At least not always.

Just sharing my experience. Your mileage may vary.

Hope you get it figured out, though. Wet car = not cool. That smell is awful. I need to replace my top and just can't seem to find the right hard top yet. I shudder when I hear rain.

My car does this on the passenger side because the jack point drains get clogged up. Get something thin and not sharp and poke those out.

Poke out from the bottom you say? I will go give that a try.

I just checked the drains and the ones in front seem to be clear, but I found some rubber tube ones at the front corners of the top (when it's down) that were full of standing water (hasn't rained in two days), and they dumped a bunch of water out when I poked the coat hanger down from the top, so hopefully that helps the situation. Now if I could only get the floor to dry before the next rainstorm!

Hairdryer! That's how we do it.

If you pull up the carpet, towards the front about 4 or 5 inches from the edge of the passenger area there are little rubber stoppers, pop them out and you have a quarter sized hole that will help drain the water.