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Our 2016 Audi TT cab leaked. Like a bucket of water emptied inside type of leaking. I had to take the driver's seat out and pull/cut out all the sound insulation that was like a huge wet sponge, dry it indoors and put it all back. Despite clearing all the roof drain holes a week later it was wet again. So it sits with a cover over while it rains and does not get used much.
I have that lovely musty smell inside the car, its not too bad and maybe I've just become super sensitive to it but for me its not a good kind of fragrant.
Is it just the last bit of drying out/damp in it that causes the smell and it'll go once total dry or is there something else causing it?
I have that lovely musty smell inside the car, its not too bad and maybe I've just become super sensitive to it but for me its not a good kind of fragrant.
Is it just the last bit of drying out/damp in it that causes the smell and it'll go once total dry or is there something else causing it?
Worth taking the door panels off & checking that the plastic sheets stuck to the metal of the door frame are present, intact & properly sealed to the frame.
If not water can enter the door via the waist seals, drip onto the back of the door panel & run down that & into the car.
The plastic sheets keep the water inside the door so it can run down & exit via the drain holes in the bottom of the door.
If not water can enter the door via the waist seals, drip onto the back of the door panel & run down that & into the car.
The plastic sheets keep the water inside the door so it can run down & exit via the drain holes in the bottom of the door.
Edited by paintman on Wednesday 11th March 20:23
Frimley111R said:
Our 2016 Audi TT cab leaked. Like a bucket of water emptied inside type of leaking. I had to take the driver's seat out and pull/cut out all the sound insulation that was like a huge wet sponge, dry it indoors and put it all back. Despite clearing all the roof drain holes a week later it was wet again. So it sits with a cover over while it rains and does not get used much.
I have that lovely musty smell inside the car, its not too bad and maybe I've just become super sensitive to it but for me its not a good kind of fragrant.
Is it just the last bit of drying out/damp in it that causes the smell and it'll go once total dry or is there something else causing it?
My last car had an untraceable water leak but it didn't smell. Like you I dried it all out but then kept a cover on it. Any new water that did get in, for example because I'd brought the car home dirty so couldn't cover it and it rained again, was kept down a bit by one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/AERO-Ultra-Absorbent-Dehu...I have that lovely musty smell inside the car, its not too bad and maybe I've just become super sensitive to it but for me its not a good kind of fragrant.
Is it just the last bit of drying out/damp in it that causes the smell and it'll go once total dry or is there something else causing it?
A mains dehumidifier would of course be better but you'd have to get a cable in, and you might not like the idea of a mains appliance running in your car all the time.
If you haven't found and fixed the leak it will just happen all over again
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