Giles
08-02-2006, 05:05 PM
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I have recently bought an 03 reg Passat W8 4.0, a day after collecting the car I realised the nearside rear footwell was soaking wet under the carpet – I took it back to the car supermarket I got it from and they tried to tell me it was where they cleaned the carpet!
I’ve now established it’s the pollen filter. VW say it needs sealing (at a cost of £250) but when I was fitting a new battery last week I noticed there was no cover on the pollen filter at all, does anybody know if there should be a cover on the filter? Should it just be sitting there with nothing over it or should it be in a box? It looks like it should be covered with something (other than the big plastic cover in front of the wipers). I’m thinking that there is something missing and it’s just raining in through the filter, hopefully not needing sealing?
I’m taking the car back to where I got it next week, they reckon they’ll fix it but I don’t trust them.
Thanks
Giles.
I have recently bought an 03 reg Passat W8 4.0, a day after collecting the car I realised the nearside rear footwell was soaking wet under the carpet – I took it back to the car supermarket I got it from and they tried to tell me it was where they cleaned the carpet!
I’ve now established it’s the pollen filter. VW say it needs sealing (at a cost of £250) but when I was fitting a new battery last week I noticed there was no cover on the pollen filter at all, does anybody know if there should be a cover on the filter? Should it just be sitting there with nothing over it or should it be in a box? It looks like it should be covered with something (other than the big plastic cover in front of the wipers). I’m thinking that there is something missing and it’s just raining in through the filter, hopefully not needing sealing?
I’m taking the car back to where I got it next week, they reckon they’ll fix it but I don’t trust them.
Thanks
Giles.