Water coming into 98 Dodge Caravan - passenger footwell
By Debs_place
@Debs_place (10520)
United States
July 23, 2007 10:39pm CST
I have a 98 Dodge caravan with about 130K miles on it.
I got in it to go to work today and heard a sloshing, I look down and water is pouring into the passenger footwell from the dashboard under the glove compartment. Two sloshes and it was done flooding. Then nothing else and I drove it about 50 miles.
Now I have been using the AC lately.
We had a Jeep (I think it was a 92) that had the same problem, it was the AC drain getting plugged, they are both Chrysler products and are hoping it is the same problem.
Can anyone shed any light on what the problem could be?
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3 responses
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
24 Jul 07
I had a dodge dakota with the same problem. In my case it was a plugged AC drain. The solution was to stick a stiff wire up the drain hole. It took several times to destroy the obstruction. But it is easy to do. You can do it yourself.
The obstruction seems to have been a paper towel placed in the resevoir at the factory. The paper did not manage to get over to the drain and plug it up until the vehical was several years old.
Why someone would do this at the factory is a mystery to me, but how else can something get into the AC water drainage resevoir?
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
24 Jul 07
Similar problem with our jeep, but the drain kept getting plugged up by dirt. We used a coffee stirrer to clear it.
Also a chrysler product..most interesting.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
24 Jul 07
My guess would be the heater core. When ours went out it would only do it after it was driven for quite a while. My husband could drive it a half an hour to work and it would not leak.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
24 Jul 07
What did it end up costing you to repair..is this an easy job that I could do myself?
Thanks.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
24 Jul 07
My husband changed ours, but it was not easy. They are under the dash somewhere and very hard to get to. It took him 6 hours and lots of cuts and bruises. The part was only $40. The garages wanted an average of $500 to put it in.
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@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
25 Jul 07
Wow—water in the vehicle- I have not heard of this- I mean when I use the A/C and I stop the car the water runs out from underneath the car- not in the car- Could be something this simple. Have you made sure it is water? And not anti-freeze. I’d get it checked out if it keeps happening.
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