Water in your Passat..SOLUTION..
 

If you have found water (lots of) in your rear footwell on the left
hand side of the car then read on. I recently followed the advice in
the following link and was amazed at how effective it is. Please bare
in mind if your carpets are wet then there will be a tidal wave
underneath so you must get them lifted, remember you have the CCM in
the front and the wiring loom from front to back (none of which mix
well with water). Lastly, this doesn't take into account for blocked
sunroof drains or leak doors. Check it out, Andy....

http://www.weirdlittlebiscuit.com/passat/leak/

Water in your Passat..SOLUTION..
 

Nice writeup. And, good to know about as a fellow B5 owner.

One comment: the big black thing you mentioned in step 8 is not the
brake master cylinder (although the m/c is attached to it).

It is actually the brake servo (a.k.a. brake booster). It's a large
vacuum diaphragm with control valves in it that cause it to 'servo' the
brake pedal position to a pushrod that drives the brake master cylinder,
with the pressure gain provided by vacuum (engine vacuum on a petrol engine)

The m/c itself is a much smaller affair, naked aluminum in our case I
think, with a number of brake lines coming out of it.

-Arthur

AndyB03 wrote:
> If you have found water (lots of) in your rear footwell on the left
> hand side of the car then read on. I recently followed the advice in
> the following link and was amazed at how effective it is. Please bare
> in mind if your carpets are wet then there will be a tidal wave
> underneath so you must get them lifted, remember you have the CCM in
> the front and the wiring loom from front to back (none of which mix
> well with water). Lastly, this doesn't take into account for blocked
> sunroof drains or leak doors. Check it out, Andy....
>
> http://www.weirdlittlebiscuit.com/passat/leak/
>

Water in your Passat..SOLUTION..
 

Nice tip, but while you're in there you may want to just remove the rubber
grommets that really do nothing more than restrict the drain holes.
Otherwise you'll be repeating the clean out in a few months.


"AndyB03" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> If you have found water (lots of) in your rear footwell on the left
> hand side of the car then read on. I recently followed the advice in
> the following link and was amazed at how effective it is. Please bare
> in mind if your carpets are wet then there will be a tidal wave
> underneath so you must get them lifted, remember you have the CCM in
> the front and the wiring loom from front to back (none of which mix
> well with water). Lastly, this doesn't take into account for blocked
> sunroof drains or leak doors. Check it out, Andy....
>
> http://www.weirdlittlebiscuit.com/passat/leak/
>

Water in your Passat..SOLUTION..
 

Nice tip, but while you're in there you may want to just remove the rubber
grommets that really do nothing more than restrict the drain holes.
Otherwise you'll be repeating the clean out in a few months.


"AndyB03" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> If you have found water (lots of) in your rear footwell on the left
> hand side of the car then read on. I recently followed the advice in
> the following link and was amazed at how effective it is. Please bare
> in mind if your carpets are wet then there will be a tidal wave
> underneath so you must get them lifted, remember you have the CCM in
> the front and the wiring loom from front to back (none of which mix
> well with water). Lastly, this doesn't take into account for blocked
> sunroof drains or leak doors. Check it out, Andy....
>
> http://www.weirdlittlebiscuit.com/passat/leak/
>