New to your forum from the Mustang Source site, referred here due to my water leak passenger side..yadda yadda yadda exactly like everyone else's leak....hmmm sounds like a pattern My car is a '07 GT vert build in late July or early August '06 (delivered to Vancouver Canada on Aug 26th) We get tons of rain and this is my daily driver, so she cannot be a garage queen. I thank all of you for the heads up on this problem...going to the dealer for #1 attempt to fix tomorrow am. Scott
I have a 2007 GT deluxe with the same soaked passenger floor padding so many of you describe. (5-speed, built 11/06). It sounds less severe than the 05 and 06's, but it is still there. My dealership is promptly attempting to fix it. My question is slightly different. If the dealership (pre-TSB) can't fix it right the first time, (it's possible!), what do you recommend in the meantime to keep mildew from occuring. Would you remove the padding, and/or carpet altogether, keep it pulled back, spray lysol, what?. No mildew smell yet as my car has less than 500 miles on it. Also, are you guys using clear silicone caulk, or something more specialized? Thanks in advance, this thread is amazingly helpful. Thanks, sleeper2
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I'd like to enter my car in the "leak poll" hyproman, but I can't get it to work, is there a click-on somewhere that I'm missing? Thanks, Sleeper2
Are you just getting the results? If so, any possibility someone else from that computer may have taken the poll. You can filter the messages in the top right corner of the message list just to see polls. Are you having this problem with other polls on the board?
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Yeah, buckshot, all I'm getting is the results of this poll, I'm not sure why. Thanks for trying. Anyway, my dealership (which actually seems pretty attentive) turned my car over to "the water guy" who tested it for "two and a half hours" and came up negative. I've got free carpet padding coming my way because I voiced my displeasure that they didn't dry the padding before putting the carpet back down. After driving the car home I promptly ripped all the front padding out from both sides (at least it's not newly wet) and put towels under the carpet. Although not the normal experience I expected with a new car, at least this way I can keep an eye on things (geez I'm getting fast at taking my car apart) and actually drive the car while I'm waiting for the new padding and the leak TSB. This is definitely MUCH more of a "retro" experience than I ever expected!
Yeah, buckshot, all I'm getting is the results of this poll, I'm not sure why. Thanks for trying. Anyway, my dealership (which actually seems pretty attentive) turned my car over to "the water guy" who tested it for "two and a half hours" and came up negative. I've got free carpet padding coming my way because I voiced my displeasure that they didn't dry the padding before putting the carpet back down. After driving the car home I promptly ripped all the front padding out from both sides (at least it's not newly wet) and put towels under the carpet. Although not the normal experience I expected with a new car, at least this way I can keep an eye on things (geez I'm getting fast at taking my car apart) and actually drive the car while I'm waiting for the new padding and the leak TSB. This is definitely MUCH more of a "retro" experience than I ever expected!
How much carpeting did you rip up?? Just the passenger foot area??Take any lastic moulding off?? I don't trust the guys at the dealership loooking after my car...I had the carpet half taken up to dry things out...they water tested and soaked the rest of the carpet all the way back to the rear footwells. Still haven't found the leaks source. Service guy already said they wouldn't replace the insulation and I have no car until Monday next week...and no loaner. I am loving Ford service right now
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Dayum, I've got it too. To go along with my defective fuel pump, mysterious drop in idle after feul up, and blown door speaker. My car smells like crap, and almost stalls when I start it after filling up, but it's got 300hp! I can't imagine how fast it will be after rust eats hundreds of pounds of metal off of it.
2006 GT. Bought it in August of 2006, 20K miles already. My only hope is to run the wheels off of it before it falls completely apart.
I love my mustang, so is there any hope of getting this thing fixed? This is so frustrating. I don't have time to be without a car for days and days.
Answer for Twokids: I took the left and right sill pieces and the left and right trim pieces off. (the left piece is the one around the hood lever, the right piece is the one with the access panel everyone talks about.) Then I cut the carpet in the middle (carefully, there are wire harnesses to avoid ) in the hidden area in the very front under the dash. This cut is about three inches long, is out of sight and allows me to peel the left and right carpeting back (move the seats all the way back.) Then I cut (with shielded shears, not a knife) and ripped out any damp padding I found. This allowed me to get things bone dry, and keep an eye on things. In addition to towels, I put down some heat underlayment to keep the carpet around the transmission hump from getting too hot. Luckily, everything's been dry since then. I haven't had time to do the rear carpeting or trunk yet.
Question for adnlyn: did they specifically say what the problem was? Can you describe it?
Got the call at noon car done early, so I go after work. Read entire service blurd about their findings and what they fixed...plenum leak gromets, poor seals, hung up carpets to dry, heater used all night to dry. Do you see where this is going yet???
I open the door and the mats are dirty, car smells musty. Gotta get kids home so I leave. At home, I find my rear quaterpanel deeply scratched and very smelly mats. I rip up the passenger mat and it is f'ing SOAKING wet. I did this infront of the service rep as I went back to show scratch, dirt and smell. It is wetter than when I dropped it off (as I dried it out). I lost it and had to leave I was so mad. Called GM and will talk again Monday when I have settled down. This is ridiculous.
Got the call at noon car done early, so I go after work. Read entire service blurd about their findings and what they fixed...plenum leak gromets, poor seals, hung up carpets to dry, heater used all night to dry. Do you see where this is going yet???
I open the door and the mats are dirty, car smells musty. Gotta get kids home so I leave. At home, I find my rear quaterpanel deeply scratched and very smelly mats. I rip up the passenger mat and it is f'ing SOAKING wet. I did this infront of the service rep as I went back to show scratch, dirt and smell. It is wetter than when I dropped it off (as I dried it out). I lost it and had to leave I was so mad. Called GM and will talk again Monday when I have settled down. This is ridiculous.
i live in Vancouver as well. If you dont mind me asking, which dealership you take it to? Ive had warranty work (minus the water leak) done on my car at Coastal Ford in Burnaby and they are pretty good.
Update. Passenger side not leaking!!!! YAY. But now the drivers side is wet. Not soaking like the passenger side but wet nonetheless. I will give it one more rain storm. If it is wet again then MustangLissy gets out of her lease and goes to Toyota.
I called ford, and they gave me a line of horseshit.....they told me that by fixing the leak they are going above and beyond the call of duty for me....what scumbags! three times in the dealership....well, one long time...I never even got it back, and they kept having to fix it, yand me finding new problems. well, I have it back now....I hope it stays dry. Now I hear the drivers side is capable of possible wetness too??!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I'm just pissed off with a company that produced an otherwise awesome car. I do love my car.
I called ford, and they gave me a line of horseshit.....they told me that by fixing the leak they are going above and beyond the call of duty for me....what scumbags! three times in the dealership....well, one long time...I never even got it back, and they kept having to fix it, yand me finding new problems. well, I have it back now....I hope it stays dry. Now I hear the drivers side is capable of possible wetness too??!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! I'm just pissed off with a company that produced an otherwise awesome car. I do love my car.
Oh that is rich. I think we drive the same leaky boats. I am going to try to keep her garaged and avoid rain....if that is humanly possible in Vancouver
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Mdnytrider, I park my car (05 GT) on a pretty steep incline (facing uphill), yet I havent noticed any water anywhere. I am located on the Gulf Coast south of Houston and we see quite a bit of rain here. My mother-in-laws Focus was pretty bad about letting water in, but still no problems detected in the Mustang.
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Add me in for return trip #2. Living in NJ my car had to sit through the Nor'easter we had here least week. My dealer subs their leak problems out so they have a guy come in on Friday's to handle the leaks. Needless to say, it sat all week with the standing water. When I dropped it off this morning you could still cup the water up with your hands. Needless to say the first conversation I had was about the carpet and underlayment replaced AFTER they finally fix the leak.
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