Maybe someone can explain this:
My dad had a car with an elusive (rainwater) leak somewhere near the base of the windshield, we can only assume.
After a heavy rain - dry notta!
After a light soaking rain, there’d be a puddle on the floor on the passenger side!
Very illogical, captain!
Go figure!
Is your Dad running the A/C - Defroster during this time. Many times the condensation from the A/C will not drain out of the car and may end up on the interion floor of car. It uesd to happen to a VW I had.
I was gonna say the same thing. I had the same elusive “leak” that turned out to be the air conditioner. There was a hose underneath the dash on the passenger side that would occasionally come loose, and you just had to jam it back in and voila! No more leak.
Two theories. 1 During heavy rain it is windy and rain doesn’t have a chance to collect where ever the leak is.2 Heavy rain the drops are larger,or become larger from running together, and run on past the place where the leak is. The lighter smaller drops don’t have the mass to run away and slowly accumulate at the leak then run through before they run off. Get inside the car and have somebody spray it with the hose at different pressures, see what happens. Of course these are REALLY wild guesses, I grew up in West Texas and I was 18 or 19 before I knew rain was something that also happened outside of books.
“Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx
If you don’t value your car a great deal, i have aslution to the problem.
On my '79 AMC Concord, when the trim around the widshield started to crack and water began to leak onto the passenger floor, I drilled a hole right in the middle of the puddle, so the water would leak right through.
A few months later, I had to get rid of the car because the brakes failed, but I think that it was a completley unrelated incident.
How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy magazines kept me in business through that first shaky year. Oh, by the way, here’s your new issue of “Gigantic Asses.”
-Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
>>I grew up in West Texas and I was 18 or 19 before I knew rain was something that also happened outside of books.<<
Me too. Stamford TX.
When it did rain and a duststorm was going on at the same time, it was kind of neat to see the little mud balls coming down.
Do you remember the cowboy calendars they used to put out? One showed a cowboy under a porch with one guy trying to pull him out by the leg. The caption was “Oh come on out Tex, it’s just rain”