Passenger footwear soaked

[an6y]

Hi all,

Bit the bullet and got the daughter an aygo to help her learn tobdrive. Great little car part from a few qwerks. 

1.horn randomly beeping when turning, temp measure took the fuse out as not had chance to check relays.

 

2. This is the one hats got me. The cat does not move for weeks, got in it yesterday and saw mould up the rear of the passenger seat, felt the footwear and its soaked. The question is cn anyone advice how to dry it out, I was thinking of taking the rear seats out and and get a dehumidifier in there.  Any advise would be great.

I will abviously try to source the leak, stating with the door draining plugs and door seals.

 

Thanks again for the help, 

Cheers

Andy

5door mk1 aygo 45k from new

 

 

[Mjolinor]

I use a dehumidifier in all my cars at least once a year for a week.

This Aygo I have here had a floating spare wheel when I first started sorting it out. Remove the bung under the spare so it can drain if it is collecting water.

High level rear light seal is a joke on these cars, scrape it all off and get some proper, non-setting mastic from a greenhouse shop to fix it for all time.

Mine still rains in and the next job is to thread a rope down the tube on the tailgate seal to make it tighter. It is always a bit worrying when they don't bother having a frame for the tailgate, so easy to overdo it and end up with glass confetti all over the car.

 

 

 

[an6y]

Thanks for the advise had a look in the boot this morning, looks like some of it is coming in from near the lock.  

[Cyker]

Ah, welcome to the world of Aygo ownership!  

As mentioned above, they are notorious for leaks at the back - Usually it's the lights having poor sealing so going over all of them including the top light is a good place so start investigating. The next common place is the door weather stripping, but that doesn't seem as common unless you live somewhere with lots of small debris, e.g. pine needles, can fall on the car and get into it.

The horn thing has come up now and then, and is usually caused by a failing clock-spring cable in the steering wheel. There was a thread about how to replace it somewhere on the forum but my search-fu is failing me at the moment.

 

[an6y]

Thanks mate had the 3rd light off, dries all the water from in there will get some sealant,   what o have found is someone has already attempted to do some work on the rear passenger seal as its got white silicone underneath 😉 

Looks like it will keep me busy for a while.

[fossyant]

Reseal high level brake light, silicone around the boot seal, replace rear light seals, silicone the two lower bump stops for the glass boot. If that doesnt work, there are two vent flaps behind the bumper that sometimes fail. Ours is bone dry now. Didn't need to do the vent flaps.

[an6y]

Thanks Foddyant,

I have 99.9% cracked the water ingress which is a bonus. Now I have the challenge of the seats having mildew or mould on them. The dehumidifiers are doing a great job but because the car does not move that often its sat in the cold.  

 

 

 

[Dave the aygo]

I use damp crystals put in two or three tubs  in the car I use them in my old mini during the winter really works well no damp or mould 

[dads Taxi x3]

I use a fruit bag from tescos(white net type thing ) then I used silicon cat litter I used on full bag so I got one fruit bag on dash its about size !Removed! packet . Then one under drivers seat  size water bottle then another water bottle size in the boot an car clear as day.

Wash the inside windows with viniger window cleaner  gets all crap off the clash . 

[dads Taxi x3]

Hi all I have to say since I been using these silicon beads in the veg net  we been out in the rain with full car and the windows have not misted up .