Watch Gallons Of Trapped Water Drain Out Of Early VW Group SUVs

Most cars have design flaws in one way or another, but the way early VW Group SUVs trap gallons of water over time is insane - check out these ridiculous videos of the draining process
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Do you ever hear a watery sloshing noise when you pull your car up at the kerb, or at traffic lights? Maybe it’s just the petrol tank… or maybe it’s several gallons of water hiding inside your bodywork.

Owners of first-generation Volkswagen Touaregs, as well as the Audi A7s and Porsche Cayennes based on the same platform, have been reporting vast quantities of water getting caught inside the chassis. Videos of the draining process have been picked up by Jalopnik, and they’re jaw-dropping.

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In the first couple of clips you can see the insane amount of water that flows freely out of an early Touareg and a MkI Cayenne. How exactly the water is getting in there seems to be up for debate, but it builds up over a period of years until there’s a small child’s worth of extra weight swirling and sloshing around inside your car’s hollow bits.

The problem on these cars isn’t limited to the hollow sills. More videos are out there showing the small pond’s worth of liquid, leaves and other crap that builds up in the drains that descend from ahead of the windscreen.

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When they’re not cleared out regularly, they block, back up and can force water to enter the cabin via the footwell. Wet shoes, anyone?

The Touareg, Q7 and Cayenne all look like bargains in the classifieds, now that emissions regs and fuel costs have made cars like that so undesirable. But, if you do buy one… clean out the drains ASAP.

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Anonymous

Trying to wash away all the carbon from dieselgate

02/15/2018 - 15:02 |
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CarGuy 5

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Comment of the week?

02/16/2018 - 07:03 |
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Anonymous

They’re scared
They wet themselves

02/15/2018 - 15:05 |
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Nishant Dash

Still won’t rust as much as Phil…

02/15/2018 - 15:08 |
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Anonymous

This could be a worry, my family has a Audi Q7…

02/15/2018 - 15:13 |
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nandee

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Well, if your family has an Audi Q7, that’s a worry in itself, they could have spent all that money on a better car.

02/16/2018 - 20:36 |
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CS55

VW owner: Oh so that’s why my Touareg V6 TDI felt heavier and body rolled like a boat…. Ouch

02/15/2018 - 15:31 |
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Well I wonder what happens to the owner in “frequently flooded countries”

02/15/2018 - 16:19 |
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5:19.55

Wet reduction bro!

02/15/2018 - 18:27 |
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Anonymous

Porbably vws reaction: meh we could do something about it but lets just say its the customers fault and let them spend thousands of dollars just to fix a problem wich is actually our fault

02/15/2018 - 18:54 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

No they designed a system designed to hide the water when it’s being drained or searched for

02/15/2018 - 19:06 |
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Anonymous

Water retention at its best.

02/15/2018 - 19:21 |
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Anonymous

VW Touareg 7L… this 7L is the amount of liters of water inside the bodywork ?

02/15/2018 - 23:06 |
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