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Thanks for your responses! I did lift the carpet the other day, but didn't notice any pipes... The water seems to be coming from behind the glove box, I have seen it dip, and we leave a bowl there to collect as much as possible. I'll take another look tomorrow. Will also check windscreen joins Had a look in the Haynes bible about Pollen filters. Bit scary - lots to remove - looks like I will need to rebuild the front of the car to sort that one out! Also think I read somewhere on the forum that someone removed their wiper blades and never got them back on again properly :wacko: that sounds like something that'll happen to me!! Did I read wrong the other day that incorrectly fitted air filters can cause leaks? Was it pollen filters? Also should I replace that PCV filter thingy while I am feeling proficient B) If so can someone give me the part number or detail so that I can find it online. I have tried googling it, and there is lots of talk about PCV valves, but not alot about filters...

Hello everyone, hoping someone might be able to help me out here! Anyway I have an 02 Ford Galaxy diesel, and water is coming into the front passenger footwell. The rear windscreen wiper spray is working - so am assuming that the water isn't coming from there. The other day I googled it and found out that it can be caused by an incorrectly fitted air filter. Anyway today I refitted the air filter and it all seemed to be fitted correctly - although the section where my Haynes manual said a PCV filter should be was empty. Is the PCV filter important?? Also confused that this could cause leakage on the passenger side as its located on the drivers side! I am not really a mechanically minded person, but really don't want to keep spending money at the garage only to find out the problem is still there (they said the rear wiper washer wasn't fitted properly and they fixed it - which was meant to have solved the leak, but obviously hasn't :blink: ) Finally I noticed that the hard battery cover is missing. Not sure if its ever been there though! Any further suggestions of where water ingress could be coming from. I know very little about cars, so please be gentle with me - nice plain english and simple instructions!! This time of year it is proving to be a real problem, and I don't know how much longer I can put up with de-icing the inside of the car! This didn't happen last year, and I do think the problem occurred since my last service. HOpe you can help! :)

Hello again, sorry to bring up the subject, but I am still unhappy with my heat exchanger. OK, so I have come to terms with the ticking and the jet engine noise. However, there is a a lot of exhaust coming from the unit. It smells too. I have driven about 200miles since having the new unit fitted, about 80 of those on a motorway. SO I think I have blasted out any of the new unit smells. Now it smells very exhausty. I even get a strong whiff when I get out of the drivers door. Although I can't see it, it leaves a horrible taste in the back of my throat for ages. Sometimes I can see it if I look at the heat exchanger, it just looks like dirty exhaust fumes. I am wondering if this is normal - it doesn't seem very healthy to me. Is there any risk that this could be going inside my vehicle when I have the heaters on. Should I get the garage to do an emissions test on the new unit, and / or maybe an internal fumes check? Or from reading the forum I notice reference to pumps - could this be faulty? (although today I can't seem to find a forum search function!) The Galaxy is a family car and I don't want to be gassing out my kids!

Yeah, you also miss the 500quid it costs to get a new part from Ford! My garage said they couldn't get a replica part - wonder if they tried VW.... Luckily they fitted the part for free as the glow plug hadn't fixed the prob - so at least I saved on labour.

Well, this is a great relief. I spent hundreds having this repaired, and was so worried it had lead to even more repairs - like the car I finally got rid of 17 months ago! I love the galaxy, so nice to drive despite the size, and surprisingly easy to park. Thanks so much for your help, however I hope not to be back on this technical forum again too soon!!!! CAn;t afford more repairs just yet, and unfortunately me or my husband are not DIY'ers. 'Fraid your not part of my Galaxy's family tree - mine starts EK52! It would have been freaky if it was though. :glare:

Hi, thanks for the reply. I bought mine from a dealer in Horley, so poss not yours? So you think this is all well - even the noises from the engine? I was just reading another posting about a high whirring noises coming from the engine and a reply stated: It sounds like the electric run on pump. It's main job is to prevent hot spots building up in the engine when the engine is stopped. On diesel models it is also associated with the auxiliary heater under the car. it is located right at the back of the engine compartment towards the right of centre. Unfortunately they go noisy when they are getting ready to fail

Hi, I have a 2003 Ford Galaxy Diesel. I am not sure if I have a similar problem... However I know nothing about cars so please bare with me! I had loads of smoke coming from infront of the rear wheels. Intermitent, but told by garage it was the heat exchanger and a common problem. So first we replace a "glow plug"(?) - the problem got SIGNIFANTLY worse. So then we replaced the heat exchanger (at great expense). Anyway, although the smoking has now stopped, I now have a ticking noise and a high pitch fan noise coming from the engine, and the heat exchanger unit itself sounds like an aeroplane taking off. It is pretty loud, and you can hear it from inside the car when idle. This is intermitent and appears to happen when the car is either warming up - after 1 mile of driving, and I have just now discovered, poss when it is cooling down - I have just done 2 hr motorway drive and when I turned the engine off the car sounded like an aeroplane about to take off. (unfortunately I didn't look at the temp guage, but when I looked during journey it was about half way, there were no warning lights on dash though). The aeroplane noise from infront of the pass rear wheel continues even when the engine is turned off - for about 30 secs - 1minute, but stops suddenly. It is like it is turned off rather than dies down. A high pitch whir was coming from the engine during the last leg of my journey, and I assume the heat exchanger was prob going too, but driving too fast to notice. Garage insist they have done everything right and don't think their work could have caused these additional faults. And ofcourse as intermittent never happens when they look. They haven't a clue. But as far as I can see they changed a part that is now making lots of noise and I have extra noises from behind the dash (passenger side), I'm not blaming them, but they seem nervous about doing anything more (understandable I guess). Any thoughts, or are the noises what a heat exchanger is meant to make! (bearing in mind the old one was broken!) I have only had the car 17 months. Please help!! :glare: