Thread: Water in floorboard (Take 2) - The Permanent Fix

Just go to your dealer and give them the part # as was posted earlier in the thread. It cost me $7.70 canadian for mine. Great info from all that helped in this discussion. Thanks.

update july 18: Rained yesterday and last night, floor is dry.

Oh Kdubhoffy, lopsy, mopsy...whatever -

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-Swash

I just installed mine. Paid $4 for it.

Originally Posted by Dangerous313KidInAPrix

well I got water on the driver side and i dont see where its running down from anywhere... help please!

I just had this famous leak happen to mine.......It was very wet on the drivers side floorboard and also a little bit wet on the passenger side. The car was parked so that it was tilted to the drivers side being lower than the passenger. Not sure of the internal water path that it takes to get into floorboard area, or if I have something other than this wrong..... Any advice on what to look for or is it just the passenger side leaking and following gravity..........any guesses? Thanks..........

well......I bought the part from GM and installed it last night. We will see if I have any more wet floorboards or not. Thanks for the write up. This installation was easy even with the one piece cowl that I have-took off both wipers and the entire cowl....cleaned it out. I do not have a cabin air filter(didnt come on these I was told by several sources?) so...........wait and see...

what year regals are compatible for these cars?(97-03)

Originally Posted by Liquifire

what year regals are compatible for these cars?(97-03)

That will work.

Just installed this part in all 3 of my GPs last night. Thanks to this Abrasive and this site I won't have a wet passenger floor and my blower motors and resistors are covered. Your write up, pictures, and steps made this very easy! Thank you!

I felt a bit guilty for I definitely would have bought these from Abrasvie or Reptile. I had read the 1st page of this post, then skipped to the last page. Now I have read the whole post, hmmm $15 is not very much to keep water out of my car. The discounted blower resistor would cost me $30, and the resistor for the auto climate control is MUCH more expensive. Sure I spent less than $15 on all 3 of these but I would have been happy more knowing the blower and resistor are now covered from water!

Next projects are a new radiator for the '97 coupe and new tires for the '03.

Originally Posted by Abrasive

They are an already produced part for another car. With a little modification, they will fit ours perfectly. The dealer will rarely have these in stock since they are not a part that "goes bad" per say and usually have to order it in. We offered them on hand, in stock, shipped to your door cheaper and faster than if you ordered them online from the parts warehouse. Saving valuable time, especially if you are waiting for the next rain storm to hit and flood your car again.

Unfortunately, those of you got one from us probably got one of the last ones we will ship out. Too many people were hung up by the fact they could go to the dealer, have them order it, make another trip, pick it up, then install it themselves cheaper. We offered convenience and quickness and made nothing monetary wise for the effort. I was getting them to some people within 2 days of their order and they didn't have to do a thing but wait for it to arrive in the mail and install it. We didn't make a dime, but some people think that we were out to get them since they could get them somewhere else and save a few pennies, but not calculate in the legwork they were going to have to do to get it. Unless they live next door to the dealer, they probably spent more getting it than if they had us ship it to them. Not to mention the time they had to spend going there and back running it down. It's just not worth the trouble. Sorry guys.

Compare our price and our delivery time to gmpartsdirect and you will see that we were trying to do everyone a favor here. They are a few cents higher, but if you have ever ordered anything from them, you would understand the value of how quickly we got these to the buyers who didn't want to go through 2 or 3 more rainstorms before it arrived.

So with that, we will no longer be offering these. The GM part is #15794785

see above.....

That is about the right price, I used that GM part number and mine came fine. While you are in there get a cabin air filter and put it in. They are the ones that came in the Buick Regals and other W bodys. They did not come in our car stock, but the place for the filter to sit is already there. Not sure why they didnt come from the factory?