[MarkinGA]

I just drove my new 2016 in the rain for the first time. A few minutes after I parked in the garage I noticed some huge puddles on the floor.

I’ve never had a vehicle bring this much water in. It wasn’t a heavy rain at all so I can only assume the water is accumulating in the wheel well areas and making its way to the floor. I’m going to have to keep a mop handy or find some sort of floor mats....

Anybody else noticed this?

 

[nickyt]

I get a decent amounts of puddles if I bring her (2006) in wet. Check the drains under the front wheel arches and make sure that they are draining ok. It they are partially blocked, then water will back up and slowly release.

It can hold several gallons in there. You want it to drain at full speed. You will get freaking incredibly huge fracking puddles if water backs up into the front cowls, then is slowly draining out after you park inside.

 

[MarkinGA]

Thanks nickyt. I will crawl around under there, once it drys up, and check the drains.

 

[nickyt]

No problem. Where is nooby, by the way? It is very unusual for a "drain" question to pop up and not see nooby as the first one to answer.

 

[hedditch]

Have you considered condensate from the A/C unit/s? Mine has the 4 zone setup and in wet or humid conditions the garage floor gets very wet.

Stuart...

 

[MarkinGA]

Have you considered condensate from the A/C unit/s? Mine has the 4 zone setup and in wet or humid conditions the garage floor gets very wet.

Stuart...

Definitely not a/c condensation. I just bought this one new a little over a week ago and have never even turned on the a/c.

The way the water was puddled, it appeared to be coming from the inner side of the wheel wells near the suspension and from the tires themselves. The rears were just as puddled as the fronts.

The rain I was in was very light. I had my wipers on a slow intermittent speed and the car had been out for maybe 45 minutes. I hate to see what would happen in a downpour.

 

[MarkinGA]

Well, I pulled the front wheel well liner back a bit on the front passenger side. I’m seeing some leafy accumulation there. This Touareg is a dealer driven 2016 and may have spent some time near a tree.

I had plans to install my splash guards tomorrow so I’m glad I caught this today. I’m probably seeing normal runoff, from big fat wet tires, plus dripping from plugs clogged with leaves. Tomorrow I will pull the drain plugs and clean everything out.
Thanks guys....

 

[Dubby]

Puddles yes. Mop yes.
Dub

 

[BenTDI]

When one comes in from being outside in the rain, the floor gets wet.

When the truck comes into the garage after being in the rain, with all the square footage soaking wet, the floor gets wetter.

Be glad you don't live where it snows. It is like high-tide in my garage, complete with muck/mud/sand/salt from the roads/dirty snow. You'd have a heart-attack.

 

[Dubby]

Be glad you don't live where it snows. It is like high-tide in my garage, complete with muck/mud/sand/salt from the roads/dirty snow. You'd have a heart-attack.[/QUOTE]

What's snow ?

 

[HVMihnea]

I totally agree with the snow. This isn't the best thing to put inside a garage in the winter...
In my country, the roads are glazed with salt and sand all winter long, so if I park the thing at night, next morning the whole floor turns white. You are probably never going to fully wash the salt away from the garage.

 

[BenTDI]

Be glad you don't live where it snows. It is like high-tide in my garage, complete with muck/mud/sand/salt from the roads/dirty snow. You'd have a heart-attack.

What's snow ?[/QUOTE]

 

[Flash635]

What's snow ?

From what I can gather it's kind of like sand but colder.