V50 General : New V50 Owner - Wet Floor??

[V50RDesignSport]

Hello everyone,

Just picked up a 2009 V50 RDesign Sport (2.4 Diesel D5, Geartronic).

Very pleased with it, think we ended up with a bit of a bargain. There is a few things that I need to address though, and one of them is that after the drive home from buying the car (some 3.5hours down the M6/M1/M25), I found the next day that the rear passenger side carpets were very wet.

I only realised as I was hoovering it out for the "first clean" of ownership, and I saw water being sucked out of the carpet by the hoover!

Now, I checked the carpets were dry when I went to view the car, and they were (because I used to have an older vectra, and it suffered badly from water ingress into the carpets...).

The car has a sunroof, and I also had the AC on on the journey home yesterday. Are there any common failure points with either of these that would cause only the rear passenger carpet to be wet?

Any advice appreciated, thanks

[plugsteet]

V50 models suffer from fatigue cracking in the floor pan , I would check this first , If found stop drilling is the short term fix to stop propagation

Final fix is a permanent repair IAW volvos service bulletin on the issue

[V50RDesignSport]

Originally Posted by plugsteet

V50 models suffer from fatigue cracking in the floor pan , I would check this first , If found stop drilling is the short term fix to stop propagation

Final fix is a permanent repair IAW volvos service bulletin on the issue

That seems a bit worrying :/

Do you have any information on that service bulletin? I had a quick search and cant seem to find anything online about it?

Thanks.

[plugsteet]

Repair is in the form of a doubler plate welded over the crack , Has the car suffered a back end shunt as this is often the cause of floor pans cracking , Might be worth checking for buckling in the rear tub area .

Classic giveaway of a heavy shunt normally

[V50RDesignSport]

Originally Posted by plugsteet

Repair is in the form of a doubler plate welded over the crack , Has the car suffered a back end shunt as this is often the cause of floor pans cracking , Might be worth checking for buckling in the rear tub area .

Classic giveaway of a heavy shunt normally

I checked the boot floor/spare wheel area fairly well when I went to see it before buying, and it all looks factory fresh there, no damage to rear bumper or tailgate either.

Thanks for the information, I think maybe I'll let my mechanic have a look at it. I would really hope it isnt a cracked floor

[IainG]

Hi
I would have thought a crack would let the water out!
Worth checking out the sun roof drains if it has been raining, there have been quite a few blocked, disconnected ones.
Not sure if the air con would put the water in the rear if the drains leaked.

Iain

[plugsteet]

Originally Posted by IainG

Hi
I would have thought a crack would let the water out!
Worth checking out the sun roof drains if it has been raining, there have been quite a few blocked, disconnected ones.
Not sure if the air con would put the water in the rear if the drains leaked.

Iain

Indeed it would but the water absorbed into the carpet would not drain out so easily would it ?

[iainmd]

First two things to check are:

1. Do you have a sunroof? If so, check the drains run freely out under each wheel well. If they don't it's the most likely culprit.

2. Is your windscreen seal intact? Push (from the inside out) the top corner of the windscreen on the side that's wet and if you get any movement your seal has failed.

The suggestion of the cracked floorpan, in 13yrs of being on this forum it's the first time I've heard it. I've no reason to disbelieve it can happen but would advise checking the above first as they are the two most common reasons for water ingress into the footwells.

[LizardOfBodom]

Just to add to above

1) Sunroof drain clogs - main culprit

2) O-ring heater core cracked (from the internal radiator of heat exchanger in the cabin) have seen few cases of this especially on US forums, but in this case you are obviously loosing coolant aswell

3) Windshield seals

Hopefully its neither, did it re-appear after drying?

ps - in 1 and 3rd case - if that happened, you should check the CEM connections (passenger footwell under glove compartment) as in lot of cases those corrode because of water ingress from roof/windscreen and makes the car not running anymore...