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Replying to: edededski (Oct 18, 2006 8:13 pm) |
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| i had the same problem. i fixed it. all i did was jack up the car to where you can see the bottom no problem clearly. check for any dents or rust spots no matter how big or small. mine was a dent proll the size no bigger then a pencil eraser but wen there was water the i stuck my key in it and noticed it was def. a whole and the water drained right away. i sealed it up and havent had a problem since. | |
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The past few days have been rainy ones.... So I go to get somthing out of my car, and what do I find? 2 - 3 inches of water above the carpets. And when you step on the carpet, it feels like your standing on a water bed. I have a 1990 grand am, and I have a water problem. I started the clean-up. I sucked about 5 gallons of water out off of the tops of the carpets with a wet-vac. I pulled out the seats, pulled up all the carpets. I found a good 2-3 inches of water under the rugs. Wet vaced it all up. Time to fix it. The water that was ontop of the rugs was coming from the passanger door, at the top near the seatbet. pulled out the silicone and went to town. Now thats fixed. However i sat in the car while it rained and saw were the water was coming from. It was all coming from the firewall. Tommorrow, I am going to try the fix that someone said on here, I think the weep holes are jamed. I will let you know what I find. However, the trunk showed anoyther problem. I found over 10 inches of water in there. It was an ez fix. The grand am is prone to rusting. So I looked for holes. I found my holes by taking a sharp rod and jaming it in the tirewell. when I did that it opened a fist sized rust hole going right into the trunk. After more proding around, I found another hole in the tirewell that went right into the back seat of the car. Went over to Ace hardware, got some bondo and glooped it on. No more wate in the trunk, or back seat. Hope this helps! |
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i no this has nothing to do with this topic but im new here and im tryin to figure stuff out, and well i cant. lol im tryin to figure out how to post my own brand new topic but the only thing i can find is to reply to other topics. can some one please let me no how i can do this?
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Replying to: 93grandamsev6 (Jun 05, 2007 12:22 pm) I have tryed everything!
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Replying to: 89dam (Aug 25, 2007 1:25 am) |
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Replying to: 93grandamsev6 (Jun 05, 2007 12:22 pm) I have a 1995 red pontiac grand am GT, 4 door... got in march 2004, had 120k miles on it. not too bad for the age I guess. it had one owner prior to me and it looked as if the previous owner took good care of the car. The exterior is in great condition and so is the interior (except for the driver and passenger side floor). I have a leak on the driver side floor, this has been going on for over a year now. I've taken it to several mechanics, paid all sorts of money and it's STILL not fixed. Finally I just got fed up with pulling money out of my a$$ and it not doing any good. Mechanically the car is great and I have NEVER broke down... the car now has 165k on it. I try to take real good care of the car, regular oil changes/maintanence..etc. Truth is I HATE that car right now, I HATE IT SOOOO BAD! I hate when I spend lots of $ for something to be fixed and it's not fixed. I'd pay any amount of money to just get it fixed! well last night it was raining hard... I KNEW that this morning I would walk to my car, open the door and see a puddle on the driver side floor... YAY! no shop vac to suck it up so I had to keep my feet out of the water so it wouldn't soak into my shoes.. and of course I needed to be able to use the brake/gas. YAY! (sarcasm) WELL I found out today not only is my driver side filled with water. but after reading everyone's post here I decided to investigate. I lifted up my passenger side floor mat and it's a little wet as well. NOW I remember checking it before and it was never wet, so obviously the problem is getting worse. Before I left work today I decided to pop the hood as well and check my oil/fluids and all that. I popped the trunk, went to grab my paper towels and they were soaking wet! that's a first! SO NOW my FREAKING TRUNK IS LEAKING! WTF?! ya know?! I hate this POS and never again will I buy a grand am just because of all the forums I have read about them. NOT JUST THIS FORUM, but I've searched online and looked at many other forums, grand am's are notorious for leaking in these area's. (mostly the driver side floor) and yes I know my car is 12 years old... (actually 13 cuz it came out at the end of 94 but whatever). so I don't expect the car to act like a brand new 2007 ford mustang or anything like that. Right now the car runs fine and I'd gladly race anyone in it if I had to.  LOL the water leak has got to stop though, it's disgusting smelling. someone told me to get some baking soda and put it in there, it's supposed to suck up the smell.... IT BETTER! It's been well over a year and it's annoying. only when it rains real hard is when it leaks. although even when it's not raining, the floor is damp. (yep, there's water under there hanging out having a party, waiting for me.. I know). I am dreading even seeing what all is under the carpet. YUK. Anyways this weekend if I'm able I'm going to have a buddy of mine check it out. it sounds like the water is coming through these "weep holes" you're talking about. I sure hope I can get this fixed and move on. as for the trunk leak, hell if I know. who knows. I've never had any problems with it til now. maybe a seal somewhere near the tail lights? Anyways, glad to be a part of this forum, glad we can all vent to each other about our grand am problems.  -Nikki p.s. think it's time for me to get that 2007 ford mustang I've been wanting so bad. hate car payments like the next guy but after all the money I've put into the car, mis well get a stang instead of having this POS grand am nickel and dime my a$$. 
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Replying to: 93grandamsev6 (Jun 05, 2007 12:22 pm) |
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Replying to: norbs1 (Aug 25, 2007 10:04 am) 
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Replying to: barbstoy99 (Oct 30, 2007 12:23 pm) |
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