I filled the rear of the cars inside body walls and all the nooks and cracks with expansion foam. I removed the entire interior of the car being very careful with the leather and all the little plastic pop screws that love to break. I went to my parents house in Ocala and took over the garage for a weekend. Lauderdale, some Torx bits, Great stuff expansion foam and some spray contact cement. I used a case of Dyno-mat (extreme) and some similar material from Select products in Ft. Road noise was a problem in my SES, and a little more after my recent mods. No chance at all of it being AC or heater matrix.So, as you know Ford did virtually no sound proofing in the Foci line. Could there be a bulkhead seal behind the soundproof matting that has perished?Īny help gratefully received. But then again I cant figure how the side seal would ever stop the water from the roof rail area from ending up in the similar area, so I would also expect and water here to find a safe way out.
Main question after all this is whether the area under the cowling (where the red arrows are) should be dry or wet in heavy rain? It looks to me that it should be designed to be dry and maybe the external seal along the bottom of the windscreen has stopped being watertight. Put it all back together - still appears to be leaking into the car. The area around the upstand was clogged so I cleaned this out. There is a plastic tube with a flap valve that has an upstand with holes in it. While doing this I could see through to the drain area at each side above the wheel arch. Removed the wipers and the plastic cowling and cleaned up the seals.
I don't know if it should do this - it seems as if water is leaking either through the seal between the bottom of the windscreen and the plastic cowl, or at the similar seal down the sides and then tracking across.
Removed the grille inserts (leaf guards) under the bonnet and observed water dripping down below the windscreen into the cavity area. Removed the plastic below wheel arches, nothing looked crudded up (There was a random padded plastic bag that I assume is more soundproofing - should that be in the wing cavity?) I cut out the soundproofing matting as high up as I could but the top part becomes sodden and sets up trickles to the floorpan. Still leaking in heavy rain from the drivers bulkhead. Long story - all carpets removed, 4 litres of water vacuumed up. Car has been sitting out without use for a few weeks and I found wet carpets.
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