Raincouver got to the inside of my car finally. LOL. Both vapour seals on the driver's side were showing signs of water leakage months ago. I didn't make time to fix it immediately so I used towels in the bottom forward corners of the door sill to absorb any water that made it into the cabin. Little did I know that even though I kept the carpet dry something under the carpet was brewing. The amount of water that can collect on the surface is TINY compared to the amount of water that can collected underneath.
My good friend brought it to my attention and brought over his tools as he's a former BMW tech and we took the door panels apart to learn that the black sticky stuff that sticks the spongy/styrofoam vapour seal to the inside of the door panel was unsticking causing water to leak out into my car's interior. A quick wand of a heat gun to all the glue goo with some manual labour to squish the vapour seal back onto the sticky goo was all that was needed. Literally a 20 minute job. But due to my procrastination and ignorance of how bad a water leak can get, I spent 4-5 hours using a wet vac and shammy to absorb as much water as I can from the dense sound proofing sponge underneath the carpet. As you can see from the below pictures, what's under the carpet holds so much more water that you won't feel from the surface of a dried carpet. Luckily it was still caught in time that mold didn't succumb to the sound deadening sponge. Looks like it's going to take a few days to dry up now....
Moral of the story? Don't procrastinate and learn the consequences of even the small problems.
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