INTERNAL PADDLING POOL !!!!!!!!

[Lig]

Hi Phil,

My 2p......

A friend of mine had similar on his A6, he went through a puddle pretty quick and it 'dislodged' a plastic trim cover in the wheel arch towards the back of the passenger wheel. Would be worth having a look at this area and maybe there is a similar cover in the rear arch??? Do you recall making a big splash recently - no pun intended???!!!

Where do you look for the pollen filter blockage? Is this just the channel at the bottom of the windscreen, where it meets the bonnet???

Cheers,
Lig.

[GardinerG]

Where do you look for the pollen filter blockage? Is this just the channel at the bottom of the windscreen, where it meets the bonnet???

Nope, it's inside the bonnet, under the black panel (plenum chamber cover).

[Lig]

Isn't the plenum chamber cover the carbon piece where the air filters are housed??? Do you mean the black cover behind this where to the power steering fluid bottle is????

Cheers,
Lig.

[GardinerG]

Do you mean the black cover behind this where to the power steering fluid bottle is????

Yep, that's the one. Ebahn calls it the Plenum Chamber Cover.

[Lig]

Ebahn?? Whos he, what does he know ????

Cheers Grant,
Lig.

[GardinerG]

Hmmm, are you teasing me? It's eBahn, as in the Technical Manual from Bentley Publishers (the guys who do the official stuff for Audi).

[Lig]

Hi Grant,

I wasn't teasing, I have never heard of it but i knew it wasn't a person. If they do technical stuff for Audi they should know??!! I just thought the Plenum chamber is the space where the air is sucked in i.e below the filters?? but what do I know??!!

Lig.

[GardinerG]

The Plenum Chamber IS the "chamber where the air is sucked in below the filters". Go figure!

[skiwi]

also can be caused by blocked sunroof drains....

[GardinerG]

Do you have a sunroof?

[langstone]

Hi,

I would go for the blocked drain in plenum chamber. Had it happen to my RS6 and my previous A6 2.8.

My RS6 was parked outside my house facing slightly uphill. Rain overnight filled the drivers and and rear passengers footwell with water as there was a punctured grommet in the firewall on the drivers side. On my old A6 the water poured in through the heater on the passenger side. A6 suffered no problems apart from needing to be dried out.

I vacuumed almost 40L of water out of my RS6 and had a full complement of warning lights lit!!!!!

Had to call RAC as gearbox interlock wouldn't release, RAC man manually overode latch so I could drive car out of my drive. Car transported to Audi the following day as still had several warning lights lit, notably ABS. Gearbox ECU replaced (it is apparently under the drivers seat.).

regards

Mark

[Gavc500]

Phil, feel for you mate, what a pain, I'm wincing and its your car!
Hope you get it resolved without too much issue, or cost!

[philroach]

up to 700 quid so far , and they havent even found where the water is coming in yet !! supposedly the grommet at the bottom of the plenum chamber is clear of debris , and this has been discounted
still holding the line that a dramatic leak with no previous history , only a week after a service is very suspicious , and trusting in honesty from the dealer
fingers crossed , rest assured the result will be made public !!
phil

[nikt]

hi i had the same problem where warter was in the rear passenger footwell tock it to audi and my problem was the skuttel panel on the passenger side had come awy from the window and warter was dripping down in to the air intake pollen fillter. the damage was that it corroded the alarm central locking ecu which is under the passenger seat.cost me about £350 at audi.

[iaingbrown]

I had this problem. Lifted mats as much as possible and dried out. Then put heater on full blast to dry out completely; the result was the paddling pool filled with warm water.
The problem was a broken evaparator; fixed under warranty. The part itself was approx £500 and the labour was anothre 3-4 hundred.
Costly. You could always pretend it's a foot spa.