After sitting in the back seat in rain to find the leak it seems that the water is seeping in through the top door seal down around the inside door frame an under the carpet in the rear left corner.
Water in back seat floor bmw.
Repeat for the other side.
Managed to get a bit of the trim off today.
The seats are not at all wet just the floor.
Just push back slightly on the front edge of the cushion about 6 in from the door.
What i have found is that the water leak is actually from the front door and under the side carpet there is a ledge and the water runs along this ledge and ends up pooling in the rear of the vehicle.
The car is parked on a slight incline so that the driver side is higher than the passenger side.
I ve since collected it and driven it for a week.
Water getting in car.
Water in chassis pours into passenger rear footwell.
There appear to be two major causes for this mine had the more frequent of the two.
One is that the sunroof drains can get clogged.
2002 bmw 530i 113 000 mi during a heavy or prolonged rain or carwash water collects on the rear interior floor boards.
Turns out it was a blocked sunroof drain water was running down the headliner and along the front door rubber seal and then pooling in the front and rear passenger seat floor.
Bmw seats are far easier to remove than most.
Bmw wet carpet problem easy fix e39 e38 e53 e36 e65 e66 e60 e90 e92 e85 duration.
I ve had the car back to the dealer who kept it for 4 days over the weekend and apparently stripped the car back and water tested it twice but couldn t find where the water was coming from.
You don t want to remove the seat back just the cushion.
Sometimes i do it with my thigh with my knee on the floor but yours is wet.
This happens after it rains.
At the same time pull up on the front lip of the seat.
The floor behind the passenger seat is soaking wet.
I have exactly the same problem with my 2014 f11 except my floor mat was soaked.
I m parked in a level driveway.
I took it in and the machanic tested t.