A few days ago I had my car parked at work (top up) and there were several hours of extremely heavy rainfall/wind. When I get in to go home it won�t start and there is a bunch of water on the floor. I pulled the immobilizer out from beneath the seat brought it home and cleaned it up/dried it out. Reinstalled today and it fired right up and I drove it home to dry out fully� no apparent damage done but should I be looking for anything? Also I had cleaned out my drains a few months back� but I�m wondering if the parking spot may have contributed to the problem. It wasn�t an extreme slope but I would say that it was at least 5 degrees nose down. Given the Rube Goldberg nature of the drainage system I wonder if it just couldn�t keep up. Any thoughts from those who know more? Final observation is that the foam under the carpet in the foot area for the rear seats holds an amazing amount of water. Short of pulling the carpet out I tried to squeeze as much water as I could but it�s still pretty wet. Any ideas on how to accelerate the drying? I currently have the drivers seat moved out of the way and a box fan blowing through the area. Fortunately I was able to get Howard Freeman on the phone the evening it happened and he emphasized that not all was lost and I should try pulling the box and drying out the board ASAP.
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I agree. The rear seat floor area holds a surprising amount of water. What I did to accelerate the drying was to put my shop vac nozzle in there, turn the vacuum on low and let it pull air through the carpet for an hour+ each side. Unfortunately, the side air bag sensors are located in the door sill and mine gave up with the last round of water so off to the dealer tomorrow for drain cleaning and airbag walletectomy. Fortunately, it isn't supposed to rain on my 4-hour RT to the dealer. If you can't get your drains cleaned in time, put some pig blankets under the carpet.
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