Known Protege Firewall Cabin Water Leak Locations

twoI didn’t see a thread just for this so I figured I would post my findings on this.

NOTE: Keep in mind I have a water hose pointed directly in the wiper cowl on full blast... you will never see that much water even with going through a car wash.

My first leak was at the harness plug going into the cabin.. Silicone on that and all is good.


The next set of leaks are in the wiper cowl. First remove the wiper cowl as that’s where majority of my leaks were from but one. I still have yet one more to find and ill update that once I correct that issue.

The wiper cowl is held in my two screws and the wiper arms. First remove the caps off the wiper arms, unbolt the wiper arms (you will have to wiggle them off), remove the caps on each side of the wiper cowl and remove the two screws. Then the wiper cowl could come right off. Its held in by a few plastic clips.



Here on the driver side you can see me spraying water in the wiper cowl.



I noticed a great deal of water coming in on my driver side floor board. I however it the water pool up as I currently don't have the carpet installed in my car and noticed the water swirling around these holes.





This is what the leak looked like on the inside on the driver side. The water was shooting down the sound deadending, and out where the bolt hole is and down onto the clutch switch


I then cut the water off, dried the area the best I could and applied some silicone. This is on the driver side right around the gauge cluster




Edit: The above location started leaking again a few thousand miles later. The bracket that holds the clutch pedal was starting to apart from the location where we applied silicon. You can see in the below video as a result. I had to get this welded back into place as well. Click the two below video clip to see what was going on.

and here it is after it came completely out!


next I cleaned out the drain hole in the cowl under the fender liner on both sides the car. Use something like a metal coat hanger to clear out the drainage ports.






This one was tricky for me to find....


I had to remove all the factory crap in the way that was covering the crack and go about a foot up in the dash to get it all visable. Then i cleaned it, scuffed it up the best i cound with 80 gritt, cleaned it, and applied seal-all/seam sealer from autozone.