Hey all,
I have a 2011 Impala, and I've had an issue with moisture forming on the inside of the car, on the windshield and side windows. I haven't checked for certain, but I'm 99% sure it isn't a heater core leaking. I haven't noticed any loss of coolant and because the moisture doesn't have an oily feel to it and it doesn't have a burning sugary smell that I've smelled in cars in the past that were leaking coolant from a heater core (again, not going to swear by it that it isn't the issue).
The weirdest issue (when it was at it worst) I found a wet spot back in the trunk area over on the driver's side, and down in the bumper area (behind the carpet in the truck) I found a big pool of water that was there. Looking around to find a way to get the water out of there, I found a little rubber cap that was up under the car in that area and drained the water, and I thought that was all my issue was and it did seem to get better, but I'm still having the problem (and it's been dry back in the trunk area since).
I took it to my local mechanic to have him check it out because I looked all around the car trying to find out where the issue might be. The day he worked on it, he could see the moisture that had condensed on my windshield (that morning), so he saw the same issue I've been dealing with. He checked everything he could think of that might be the issue as well. My mechanic tried pouring water all over the windshield, back glass, side windows to see if there was a leak around the windows, blew the ac drip hose clean to see if there was water collecting in there for some reason. He also checked the carpet around the heater core and it was dry, and around where I found the water in my truck and everything was dry, nothing. Luckily, my mechanic was pretty cool and didn't charge me for anything since he couldn't find the issue to fix it. The only thing he could think of is there is a duct open to the outside air that isn't closing or maybe a crack somewhere in the vent system. I think he might be right because the other day (about a week or so ago before Christmas), I was warming up the car and had the defroster on and the windshield didn't have hardly any moisture on the glass, but after I fired up the defroster, it seemed to get more moisture on the window than I had before (unless the moisture was simply in the car already and it was condensing on the cold glass š¤·āāļø).
I will tell you guys, this car is a salvage title car, so I understand that some of you guys will probably point to that as my culprit that its a POS and it wasn't rebuilt right, but I was told by the people I bought it from that the only damage that they repaired on the car was some outer fender bender type damage and that was all. Overall the car seems to be a pretty good reliable car, but this is really the only issue I'm having with it.
Thanks
I have a 2011 Impala, and I've had an issue with moisture forming on the inside of the car, on the windshield and side windows. I haven't checked for certain, but I'm 99% sure it isn't a heater core leaking. I haven't noticed any loss of coolant and because the moisture doesn't have an oily feel to it and it doesn't have a burning sugary smell that I've smelled in cars in the past that were leaking coolant from a heater core (again, not going to swear by it that it isn't the issue).
The weirdest issue (when it was at it worst) I found a wet spot back in the trunk area over on the driver's side, and down in the bumper area (behind the carpet in the truck) I found a big pool of water that was there. Looking around to find a way to get the water out of there, I found a little rubber cap that was up under the car in that area and drained the water, and I thought that was all my issue was and it did seem to get better, but I'm still having the problem (and it's been dry back in the trunk area since).
I took it to my local mechanic to have him check it out because I looked all around the car trying to find out where the issue might be. The day he worked on it, he could see the moisture that had condensed on my windshield (that morning), so he saw the same issue I've been dealing with. He checked everything he could think of that might be the issue as well. My mechanic tried pouring water all over the windshield, back glass, side windows to see if there was a leak around the windows, blew the ac drip hose clean to see if there was water collecting in there for some reason. He also checked the carpet around the heater core and it was dry, and around where I found the water in my truck and everything was dry, nothing. Luckily, my mechanic was pretty cool and didn't charge me for anything since he couldn't find the issue to fix it. The only thing he could think of is there is a duct open to the outside air that isn't closing or maybe a crack somewhere in the vent system. I think he might be right because the other day (about a week or so ago before Christmas), I was warming up the car and had the defroster on and the windshield didn't have hardly any moisture on the glass, but after I fired up the defroster, it seemed to get more moisture on the window than I had before (unless the moisture was simply in the car already and it was condensing on the cold glass š¤·āāļø).
I will tell you guys, this car is a salvage title car, so I understand that some of you guys will probably point to that as my culprit that its a POS and it wasn't rebuilt right, but I was told by the people I bought it from that the only damage that they repaired on the car was some outer fender bender type damage and that was all. Overall the car seems to be a pretty good reliable car, but this is really the only issue I'm having with it.
Thanks