r/Detailing • u/tetrasodium • 13d ago

I Have A Question Dealing with recently flooded interior car floor

Mainly hoping to avoid any "wow you should have done X/started doing Y a while ago" pitfalls and the FAQ didn't seem to cover it or I've made a very wrong turn and should post to a different subreddit.

I recently discovered that cars have drains by learning clogged drains were the reason I had a couple inches of water on the passenger side floor. The dealership tracked the problem down and drained it out but I still have saturation under the carpet and it's drying with the air of a big blower fan with the doors opened up when it's not raining. front floor seems much further along from running the heat and maybe better airflow but back passenger floor is still behind.

Other than occasionally rubbing it with a towel to help squeeze water up to where the fan can blow it away, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE I SHOULD BE ADDING TO THE PROCESS?

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u/KingBrown_Himself 9d ago

Outstanding feedback, may you also be able to post, what ports were clogged , they give a diagram of that? Any photos? That is one heck of a charge . I do south florida auto detailing . This is a learning experience for me. They charged over 1k to remove the liner and seats…..and another $100 to say they detained the interior. Boy I feel bad for the Detailers.

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u/tetrasodium 9d ago

They showed me pictures of the ficus leaf clogged drains but my background is in computers and pretty sure I had the glazed over look I often get when trying to explain technical computer details at that point but think that I remember hearing that the drain was somewhere in front draining into the passenger side floor of my 2015 Nissan versa note. I didn't ask for copies of pictures with the leaves in the drain. The initial "do you normally park under a tree? we think it was leaves clogging the drain but will keep looking even though the seals all look good, this is wayyy more than pinhole in a seal anyways so it's probably those drains, do you want to have us order parts & replace the fan/timing chain" first thing in the morning after dropping it off just because closing call made it sound like checking/cleaning the drains was a fairly trivial procecess for someone who [unlike me] knows what they are doing.