Might try pulling the carpet and padding back to dry it out, then lay out some news paper and watch for any drip patterns...

 

Rice is a very good desiccant and has saved a few wet cellphones.

 

A little off topic but almost every cell phone maker, makes their batteries removable except Apple... almost every phone is salvageable if you can get that battery out quickly if the phone gets dunked

 

It is parked today with the windows open to help dry it out. I just want to start at dry and go from there. If it is hot and dry and I run the a/c and the carpet gets wet, then I know it is a/c related. If it rains and the carpet gets wet then I know it is either the sunroof or something else.

I hate trying to guess. The joys of buying used I guess.

- mike

 

So it has been a couple of weeks and I thought I'd post an update about the wet carpet.

After not running the A/C and then having the water pool up after a major rainstorm, I narrowed the water problem down to a leak.

This past weekend was beautiful and dry, so I started checking the sunroof drains. All were fine, so I decided to check the windshield next. No problems there, but the way the water ran down the inside of the door, it looked like the door seal may have been letting water in.

I was going to buy a new door seal, but it was the weekend and I would have had to wait until Monday to order, so I used flowable silicone to seal from the top to the bottom as a temporary measure becasue it was supposed to rain.

And rain it did. At first the carpet seemed to stay dry and I thought I had figured out the problem. Nope after a short drive and more rain the carpet was soaked.

Back to the drawing board.

This afternoon the rain was intermittant, and during a lull I just happened to peak in the passenger door and lo and behold, I found the problem.

So let me try to describe the door seal in two parts. There is the part that you shove over the pinch weld that is rubber-encased metal and there is the flexible part that touches the actual door and is more like foam. Where those two parts meet makes a little channel. In that little channel was pooling water, not quite flowing over into the cabin.

The water was coming from the door!

The door itself has a drain hole at the bottom near where I suspected the water was coming in, but it is too far below the door seal to leak into the cabin. However, at the bottom of the big plastic interior door panel, was wet. Really wet. And when the door closes, it is right above the door seal.

So somehow the water that should be driaing out of the door drain hole is actually draining out into the cabin.

I will post descriptive pics later. And I will post more about finding the leak in the door.

- mike

 

Thanks for the update

 

Just a thought here. I had my windshield replaced on my 99 Suburban. After that I had water in the heater fan and when I turned it on it sloshed around untill it was gone. Couldn't figure it out so went back to installer who went over it and said they couldnt find anything. Still happened so went back and we even opened up the factory sealed cover under the trim on the passanges windshield cowel. Ran water through it and no drips at all. Sealed up all screws with silicone and that stopped it all. They had expanded some of the screw holes and didnt seal them up. No more water in the truck now. Just a shot there.