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To check if water is down there, lift the bonnet and (as you are looking at the engine) remove the left hand side (drivers side) black plastic cover - the one that sits just below the windscreen, above the wiper motor.
Look in there with a torch and see if you can see water. If you can, you need to get draining quickly!
To drain, remove the cover from the passenger side. then pop out all the little tabs that hold the winscrean trim in place, then remove the one screw (plastic) that holds down the trim pieces. Remove the long rubber bulkhead trim and then you should be able to wiggle the cover panel out from under the scuttle trim panel.
You may also need to slacken off the 8mm bolt that goes through the plastic bulkhead on that side.
There are two drains, one is actually accesible without removing all the gubbins above, and is just next to the bonnet hinge. A long peice of bamboo should happily clear this!
The other is down in the big hole you've just created by removing all the stuff above. Its roughly left central to the aperture, (widthwise) between the engine computer and the cabin air filter. Bamboo is your friend here too. Don't be tempted to removed the engine computer, the wires aren't long enough to facilitate removal whilst connected. Once thr drains are cleared, the water should drain rapidly. If it doesn't, keep rodding the drains till good flow is achieved.
HTH
Andy
Look in there with a torch and see if you can see water. If you can, you need to get draining quickly!
To drain, remove the cover from the passenger side. then pop out all the little tabs that hold the winscrean trim in place, then remove the one screw (plastic) that holds down the trim pieces. Remove the long rubber bulkhead trim and then you should be able to wiggle the cover panel out from under the scuttle trim panel.
You may also need to slacken off the 8mm bolt that goes through the plastic bulkhead on that side.
There are two drains, one is actually accesible without removing all the gubbins above, and is just next to the bonnet hinge. A long peice of bamboo should happily clear this!
The other is down in the big hole you've just created by removing all the stuff above. Its roughly left central to the aperture, (widthwise) between the engine computer and the cabin air filter. Bamboo is your friend here too. Don't be tempted to removed the engine computer, the wires aren't long enough to facilitate removal whilst connected. Once thr drains are cleared, the water should drain rapidly. If it doesn't, keep rodding the drains till good flow is achieved.
HTH
Andy
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