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Originally Posted by 97vulcan
Its not too wet. Its just damp. It doesn't smell moldy in the car, Its all rusty underneath the car, but I guess that what you get with a car in WI. Should I look anywhere else and check for damage?
thanks,
Adam
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How are you making out with this? Was thinking, is the headliner damp/wet at all? If so, it's usually a sure sign that the top of the windshield is letting water in. Let us know what you find out.
With it rusty underneath the car, the best course of action is to firstly protect your floors from the inside. [especially since you have the dampness inside] Take if from a jeep owner -- Floors go more so because of the inside than underneath. The carpet when it holds moisture and salt let's it continually sit on the floor of the car, which rusts faster than from the underside. [and driverside is always worse than the passengers side]
Once you find the source of your leak, the first course of action I'd take is remove your front seats and center console and peel back your carpet and take a good look. How does the floor look? Is there any softspots? If so those need to be take care of. If not, just sand down the rusted area, then prime it. After that give it a few coats of bedliner making sure you don't miss any spots. Driverside floor will always be the worst so an extra coat or two can't hurt. If you don't use your backseats much for passengers, it'll be fairly easy to do as there shouldn't be any rusting of that area and you don't need to worry about taking up the back seat at all. Just up to it. Now that that's done, your inside floor will now be protected.
As for the underside, hardest part is getting underneath it to coat it. If you can get it up on a hoist, check the underside for softspots. Again, if there are, they need to be addressed asap before they get worse [especially before winter hits! winter/salt will make it spread damn fast]
The best thing to do honestly is get a product called POR15.
http://www.por15.com/products.asp?dept=1 It'll help keep the underside from getting any worse than it already is. Coat the entire underside of your floors and you'll be good to go.
