2004 Chevy classic almost 280k on the clock.
I noticed yesterday when I left work for my lunch break water was dripping onto my foot getting my sock wet. It would only happen when I turned left though, I had to be moving can’t just turn the wheel stationary and get it to happen. Didn’t happen when I turned right.
It was raining that day, maybe that’s a coincidence. It happened both with the heat on and off. It was dripping directly onto my ankle from above as if it was coming from the dash.
You may want to remove the trim below the windshield and look inside the windshield wiper linkage trough to see if there are any holes from rust or cracked body sealant.
Tester
And when you remove the trim from below the windshield to check for leak spots…clean out all of the years of gunk that are in there helping to create rust and clogging up the drains that are under there.
Turning left tends to force any accumulated water to the right. That suggests the source of the water is to the left of your foot, and perhaps above. Look for any water accumulating in those areas. The doors are designed to allow rain to get into their interiors, then it just drains out via holes in the bottom of the door, over the sill and to the ground. Make sure the door’s drain holes and the rest of the path isn’t clogged. Another experiment, on a dry day spray water on the windshield, then watch underneath the car where puddles accumulate. Usually there are two paths from water on the windshield to drain to the ground. Is the puddle on the ground under each path about the same size?
Make sure the evap drain is not clogged also…
In addition to the cowl vent area in front of the windshield, plugged door drains, and a plugged evaporator drain (the a/c runs in cold weather, too, and lots of condensation can occur when it’s rainy), there are the drain(s) for the sunroof, if it has one. They can plug, causing water to leak into the car.
OP says the water is appearing on the driver’s side floor. Not the usual location for the AC evap drain.
But if the evap drain is clogged who knows where the water will leak out.
That’s a good point.
Last summer my ‘06 SAAB convertible was ending up with a drenched passenger’s side floor. I went through a lot to clean out that darned evap drain. But that wasn’t it… (ugh, tho’ I guess I’m not unhappy to have given it a good cleaning). It was the seal around the fresh air intake/cabin filter box on the firewall.
Not the 1st time I have seen water in the drivers floor board from an EVAP drain clogged… lol
I never said it was the drain, just to check it to make sure it is not a clogged drain… 
+1
I recall that, with AMC cars of the '60s (and maybe even into the '70s), even if the evaporator drain wasn’t clogged, it wasn’t unusual for water to leak onto the driver’s and/or the passengers feet from the A/C if the driver made a sharp turn. Some car magazines commented on this “feature” after doing test-drives.
Just curious, what makes that job particularly difficult on the SAAB? None of my cars have A/C, so I’ve never had to clean it, but on my Corolla I see the rubber tube sticking through the floor from the underside, and it looks like it would be pretty easy to clean w/a shot of compressed air.
It was just it’s location - it doesn’t just hang out the bottom, but comes out of the lower firewall in a spot with really tight access. And it has something of a rubber cap on it, x’ed at the end, presumably to allow water out, but keep debris from entering. So you can’t see what you’re doing, and have to do it by feel.
I didn’t actually know about the rubber cap until I figured out that it would pull off, so that made the “feel” more mysterious for a while. And since the drain wasn’t a problem at the time, I never got the gush of water I expected, so I just spent a lot of time confused, bent over the fender, shoulder deep and clumsily messing around with stuff. After I had the cap off, I did manage to get a scrap of heater hose on it that was shaped right to get a shop vac onto the heater hose.
In the end though, the bottom line is just that I didn’t know what I was doing (in a specific sense). It will still be annoying to do it again, but much less so next time.
This isn’t my pic - just one I stole from a SAAB board:
When my brother was picking-up his son’s Saab after yet another repair by our trusted foreign car mechanic, the mechanic’s conversation with my brother went like this:
Mechanic: There’s just one thing that I can’t figure out with these cars.
Brother: What’s that?
Mechanic: Why do they make the damn things?
LOL. Since it’s a TOTAL tangent from the thread subject, I’ll try to keep this short, but speak on behalf of the SAAB.
I bought it on a total whim for all of $2K with some high degree of trepidation. The kids were out of the house, and I was getting us out of the minivan. I was looking for a mid-sized SUV. The used market was slow for that, but I stumbled on a craigslist post for the SAAB - 2006 9-3 convertible with a 2.0T. It was not well-maintained at all, or in great shape (esp the interior), had a bit over 200K on it, but it ran and drove great with a nice set of Michelin touring tires on it. The wife FREQUENTLY mentioned that she’d always wanted a SAAB. I figured WTH? $2K for a little black convertible that would make my wife happy.
Four years later it’s in the 240K+ range and has caused me almost no trouble at all. Plenty of road trips, plenty of everyday driving. Vacuum pump and PS pump reseals. An upper radiator hose. A set of plugs and coils… 9/10 times she comes home in it saying “I LOVE THAT CAR!”
I was trepidatious, but I’ve got no complaints. (And it’s funny - it was the GM years, so about half the stuff under the hood says SAAB and the other half GM. And it needs a Tech2 which stinks, but I’ve at least got a code reader that reads all of it’s codes).
Seems you are having good luck and a good car in your SAAB I think that design may be a little sensitive to gunk getting into the ignition switch area and causing grief. Have you had any problem w/that? 200k mostly care-free driving on a turbo, seems very good!
I’ve not had any ignition switch troubles (but thanks for jinxing me by making me say that - knocking wood…)
And I’d say there is some luck to it in terms of having no real problems. It is a really fun ride - and that little 2.0T packs some punch (I’ve never had a turbo before - pretty amazing what it does). And capable of 30ish mpg. (When I’m driving. My wife is a bit more impetuous and wonky on the throttle. She gets mid to lower 20s).
