Hey all, I've posted on here before, I've posted primaraly in the brakes section to find out about an abs issue I've had and I've helped others in there. I have a question now about another issue that I have that I've tried diagnosing myself but haven't been able to and maybe someone else with a 97 grand prix can help shed some light on my issue.
When I got my car I noticed a dark spot on the front passenger side carpet. It was along the crease towards the back of the floor board for the front passenger and slightly around the console. I figured it was damp from maybe my brothers shoes so i felt it and sure enought it was wet. I tried to use a towel on it to dry it up after a day or two and it stayed there. I tried heating my car up really warm with the vents to dry it out with the windows slightly cracked (and trust me it was hot) and that didn't work, so I removed the trim along the bottom edge of the passenger door (its a 2 door) and pulled up the carpet to find a pool of water. shocked I threw the towel at it, let it soak most of it up and then like I tried before, I turned on my heat and let it warm up to dry it out. I kept the carpet pulled up for a week to dry it out and sure enough it dried up. Not thinking anything of it, I put it back down and put the trimming down, and about 2 weeks later noticed another water spot. Now getting pissed off, I pulled off the trim and pulled up the carpet (was at a friends house and I just happened to have a towel again) and I put that on it, soaked up the water, and in order to keep it pulled up I used some heavy duty jumper cables (worked quite well lol) and let it dry back out. Came home and my dad and I looked at it. We came to the decision that the water was coming through a small hole drilled through the firewall (we assume it was for a sterio system) and we sprayed water through the wheel well and sure enough water came through. We plugged it up and thought it was fixed. NOW . . . I was replacing the blower motor in my car because when it got really cold out whenever I turned it on, it wouldn't spin up on the lowest setting, then it would barely turn on setting 2, then on setting 5 it would turn but squeal so loud I'd have to turn it down, and I couldn't use it until it warmed up and even getting it to warm up was a chore because I had to have the fan running for it to heat up, so I waited for the anti-freeze to warm up then I turned on the fan for like 5 or 10 seconds at a time, then it would eventually stop. Well while replacing it I dropped a screw behind the carpet (never put the trimming back on after the last wet spell because I needed some of the trim off to replace the fan) and when pealing up the carpet to get the screw, well, its wet again. We get the fan out and it looks like water got into the blower motor. We have sprayed water through the leaf guard to see if water was coming through the air intake for the blower motor but we didn't see any water coming in (we put a lot of water through the leaf guard).
ANYBODY have any idea how water would be getting in and under the carpet (it looks like its going UNDER the carpet not above it) and how possibly water would have gotten into the blower motor?
When I got my car I noticed a dark spot on the front passenger side carpet. It was along the crease towards the back of the floor board for the front passenger and slightly around the console. I figured it was damp from maybe my brothers shoes so i felt it and sure enought it was wet. I tried to use a towel on it to dry it up after a day or two and it stayed there. I tried heating my car up really warm with the vents to dry it out with the windows slightly cracked (and trust me it was hot) and that didn't work, so I removed the trim along the bottom edge of the passenger door (its a 2 door) and pulled up the carpet to find a pool of water. shocked I threw the towel at it, let it soak most of it up and then like I tried before, I turned on my heat and let it warm up to dry it out. I kept the carpet pulled up for a week to dry it out and sure enough it dried up. Not thinking anything of it, I put it back down and put the trimming down, and about 2 weeks later noticed another water spot. Now getting pissed off, I pulled off the trim and pulled up the carpet (was at a friends house and I just happened to have a towel again) and I put that on it, soaked up the water, and in order to keep it pulled up I used some heavy duty jumper cables (worked quite well lol) and let it dry back out. Came home and my dad and I looked at it. We came to the decision that the water was coming through a small hole drilled through the firewall (we assume it was for a sterio system) and we sprayed water through the wheel well and sure enough water came through. We plugged it up and thought it was fixed. NOW . . . I was replacing the blower motor in my car because when it got really cold out whenever I turned it on, it wouldn't spin up on the lowest setting, then it would barely turn on setting 2, then on setting 5 it would turn but squeal so loud I'd have to turn it down, and I couldn't use it until it warmed up and even getting it to warm up was a chore because I had to have the fan running for it to heat up, so I waited for the anti-freeze to warm up then I turned on the fan for like 5 or 10 seconds at a time, then it would eventually stop. Well while replacing it I dropped a screw behind the carpet (never put the trimming back on after the last wet spell because I needed some of the trim off to replace the fan) and when pealing up the carpet to get the screw, well, its wet again. We get the fan out and it looks like water got into the blower motor. We have sprayed water through the leaf guard to see if water was coming through the air intake for the blower motor but we didn't see any water coming in (we put a lot of water through the leaf guard).
ANYBODY have any idea how water would be getting in and under the carpet (it looks like its going UNDER the carpet not above it) and how possibly water would have gotten into the blower motor?
