Drying the carpets - Welcome to my Nightmare

As I've posted a couple threads now on my pluged rain drains and the subsequent floor flooding that followed, and so far I've managed to get past a security lockout, remove stubborn electrical clips/plugs, and get the CPU and seats removed. I just reviewed Pelican's description of how to remove the carpet, and after a lengthy and involved process on the front half, it says, "Replacing the rear carpet section that goes over the rear 'hump' in the center and also the rear seats involves a bit more work." Say what? A bit more work? I was exhausted just reading what was involved in basically a full deconstruction of everything but the dash up to that point. So my question to the brain trust here... I can pull up and back a fair amount of the carpet without the full deconstruction required to fully remove it, and put fans on there for as long as it takes, but should I? Is this something where I should just bite the bullet and take however long it takes to disassemble everything to fully remove the carpet, or can this be done with boards and fans? As these drain failures seem to be more common than I would have guessed, what have other people facing this done?

What about a dehumidifier and an ozone machine? I hear that it needs to be dry within 48 hours or mold will set in.

Take everything out if it was sopping wet. The carpet is the least of your problems to get dry, it�s the jute and padding that stays wet.

For the cab, once the rear panels are out the carpet will follow. There is some finagling around the back of the center console but aside from that it’s pretty straightforward. Did that last year in mine.

Rear panels?

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Interior rear quarter panels and the panel that covers the rollbar mechanism. Rear seat backs as well but that�s a given.

As long as you�ve gone this far, why not do it right? It sucks that you had to learn the hard way about the drains, but it certainly drives home the point of preventative maintenance! Apparently the car spent lots of time outdoors prior to your ownership - now you know! Good luck getting everything dried out and back together again. The deeper you get into these cars the better prepared you�ll be for problems in the future. There�s really very little that can�t be tackled DIY if you take your time and don�t half-*** it

I am parting out a 99 that is in amazing condition - its interior is black. The car spent its life in Utah, then Idaho, not driven in the winter. It was involved in a minor fender bender that tweaked the left front just enough to pop the airbags. I'll have the seats and carpets out within a week. The seats are spoken for, but the carpets are available. I just removed the entire frunk carpet set. It is pristine, zero water intrusion in its life, no stains. The cool weather hasn't baked the rubber/plastic bits.

I have a cab and I had the water. it did not overflow into the area under the front seat, but here is what I did to dry it out. I pulled back the carpet in the rear seat foot well and stuck the end of the shopvac in there and let it run for hours. It pulls air thru the carpet to dry it out. This may be crazy but you might go to Costco and get a 50lb bag of rice and dump that in the car and let it sit for a day. Then vacuum it out.

as crocodile Dundee would say, thats not a wet carpet, this is a wet carpet You Tube

I agree with others. Clear out the rear and get that carpet out so it and the rear of the car can dry properly. Bonus: While doing this, check your rear brake sensor connectors. They disintegrate over time. Known problem and Porsche sells a repair kit. (also available on ebay & elsewhere.) Having the rear carpet out is a great time to replace those two rear brake sensor harnesses.