Volvo 940 Estate - Interior condensation - apmoss

I am experiencing heavy interior condensation to my Volvo 940 Estate now that winter has arrived. It occurs if the vehicle has not been driven for a few days and at its extreme, water gathers on the inside of the glass sunroof panel and drips on myself and my passengers. Any ideas to cure/reduce this problem. I have noticed that this condensation will sometimes occur during the summer, although not to the same extent as now.

Volvo 940 Estate - Interior condensation - Peter.N.

The first thing to look for is any dampness in the car, are all the carpets dry? Assuming they are, if the glass mists up when you put the heater on the matrix could be leaking. Make sure that the air control is not set to 'recirculate'. Driving with the fan full on with as higher temperature as you can stand will help dry the car out

Volvo 940 Estate - Interior condensation - gordonbennet

As above, lift the carpets including the under boot floor storage area and the even lower areas where the spare wheel and the rear washer bottle (cracked and flooded?) sit.

Once found where the water is gathering might give you a pointer where its coming from, sunroof or blocked drains is my guess with water coming down through the front bulkhead vents, 940's have good proper gutters so should be an easy trace.

Remove or lift carpets as best you can and leaving a couple of windows slightly ajar leave an electric fan heater running for a couple of days pointing at the wet part in there over the break.

If you don't dry it properly like this you won't get it thoroughly dry before next summer, and have windows iced up inside to look forward to when winter arrives proper.

As you know you should have done this when the weather was nice..;)

Edited by gordonbennet on 24/12/2011 at 18:31