M23 Nightmare

[Chrissy G]

Anyone get stuck on M23 this afternoon, spent 1hr 45min in 8 mile tailback. Car behaving admirably until 1hr 30min when engine died (no warning) left with oil light flashing, startedher up turned no problems, then the alarm came on, eventually navigated to slip road on left. Pulled up, waited 5 minutes. No sign of engine overheating, temps between 90-95deg alltime, oil pressure 20 (normally 38 at 2k revs, 40-42 at 3k revs on mobil 1 0w/40 oil). Started engine first time carried on another 200yrds same happened again. Managed to start her up turn round and head back home (out of heavy traffic) and no further problems. Also to my dismay when fetching map behind drivers seat it was saturated with water as well as my footwell (hadnt noticed this when i got in). The bottom half of drivers side door wet too. Back at home some 250miles later car behaving impeccably again, hmm. Leaving things dry overnight.
Figure that being stuck in traffic that long would cause trouble but more annoyed with water leak (car was left outside last night - heavy rain) perhaps maybe window closure didn't work last night when showing car to rels, no obvious damage underneath.

Still love the car though! I'm sure its just teething problems.
Has anyone else experienced this problem when held up for v long periods in crawling traffic.

Regards

Chris (still surprisingly happy)

[Chrissy G]

thanks steve

will do a search on "the leaking door scenario", before then I'll wait until things have dried out. Have a thorough look, when its light and dry before contacting dealer.

[Chrissy G]

Car finally dried out, but still lets in water if left outside in rain overnight, made sure window closed fully, I think whats happening is water is leaking into door from outside via sill and then somehow gravitates to the footwell. Haven't managed to inspect car in good light and dry conditions yet but think it will be drier over the weekend so I'll let u know what I find. The passengers side is bone dry so maybe worth comparing two doors.