Wel that is what they thoght happend to mine too, along with some other gasket. then they found a seam that wasnt sealed, so they sealed it. then they leak tested it and it still is leaking. today they are ripping out the dash. This is not looking good. Will keep you all posted. BTW i got a Stripped cobalt as a loaner, it had manual windows, locks, mirrors, etc... BUT it gets 36MPG!!

 

I'd like to see some kind of diagram showing how this cabin filter and filter box is put together. If it filters outside air, and it's raining out, just how is the water diverted away from the filter (That is if it was assembled correctly ) Apparently this wasn't done in some cases it appears! And how does the filter box collapse ?? Is it made out of cardboard or something? I can't help but wonder if we're going to have this problem down the road someday ourselves. We've only had 2 real downpours here in the year that we've our HHR, but it was in the carport during both of them.

 

When was yours built? Mine was 12/05, maybe the same guy made the same mistake on our cars.

 

Thats what they ended up doing to mine, the carpet that is. But if for some reason it comes out stained or smells etc, I would take it back and demand new carpet. My dealer told me that because I got it in soon after that cleaning and drying the carpet and padding would make it as good as new and this time the dealer was right but he also said if I was not satisfied with it afterwards to bring it back and they would install new carpet.

 

i dunno when mine was built, i will have to look. I bought it in March , so it is possible that it was made in December.
Well i got her back today and they had to take the cowls off and the passenger fender as well as the interior panels. They siad there is s seam in the cowl area between under the pass fender that was not seald form the factory. The leak tested it and it seems ok. Tomorrow Ernesto hits the mid atlantic, should be a good test.

 

Hi,
I'm new to this forum and wanted to check something. We went to look at an HHR earlier in the week and when the salesperson pulled it out, said he couldn't show it to us because the front floor was filled with 2 inches of standing water (we saw it too). He made the comment that someone must have left the window open. We agreed to purchase it if they could clean it up, which they did. We picked it up yesterday, and as my husband drove home, I was feeling drops of water on my foot. This morning, the front passenger floor is soaked again, with about a half-inch of standing water. I called the dealer and they brought out another one to borrow while they attempt to figure out the problem, and I swear the passenger floor rug is all wet on this one too. Both are 2006 LT models, but I was wondering how many others had this problem. Thanks for your time!

 

It looks like there are about 10 out of 1868 members with this problem ... For what it's worth that is about 1/2 a percent (0.5%) with this issue.

 

Just encounteed this problem for the first time last week, and reproduced it yesterday...off to the dealer.

 

Hi all,
I'll try to give ya'll the cliff notes version of what happened to me!

2 weeks ago we had heavy rain in NY and I drove to a friends house, about 30 miles from mine. When I got there I noticed a small little black spot of water by the passenger door floor board. Didn't think anything of it cause I went through some very large puddles at 55mph.
Left my friends about 6 hours later, drove home, pulled into my garage and went to get my pocketbook off the passenger seat when to my surprise I saw a couple of inches of water swishing back and forth on the floor!!!
Took it to the dealer the next day. Dealer called and said they found the leak, coming from the sunroof (I totally questioned that) apparently the sunroof shifted and the seal moved. I pick up the car 2 days later. Carpet still a little damp. We drove home (dealership is 60 miles from my house) and by the time we got to the Tappan Zee Bridge the passenger floor was wet...AGAIN! Forgot to mention that this was Saturday and NY was feeling the effects of Ernesto.....

Called my Uncle (who is my dealer) and he made some calls to give the service department a piece of his mind. I have to bring the car back on Wednesday!

I am so aggravated! My 96' cavalier NEVER gave me problems! I love Chevy's and thats why I went with another! Now I feel like crying because we have had nothing but problems with my HHR. I love my car but I am at my witts end with all this back and forth to the dealer!

We had the following problems since buying the car on March 17th:

1. remote start didn't work - had to go back in for that - so far so good
2. car turned off while I was driving 60 mph on the Interstate...went in for that, dealer couldn't duplicate the problem so no resolution.
3. rattling sqeaking noise when you go over a bump - again dealer could not duplicate, no resloution
4. Water problem....on going saga!

Sorry such a long vent, but who better to share with than fellow HHR owners...

 

NY
You may have already seen this. But a lot of members just print off a copy of the TSB (Technical Service Bulletins) and take them with them.

Here is one of the links. http://www.alldata.com/tsb/General-M...16B/index.html