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Boo Always fun to leave a loose coin behind the dash or under the rear seats / boot floor
Bought the Battersea Gransport . . . .
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Boo Always fun to leave a loose coin behind the dash or under the rear seats / boot floor
Far worse though is when you remove the entire dash, retrieve the little cover on the light/temp sensor, put it all back together and then drop one of the dash screws through the windscreen vent.
...Getting there. Plenty of stops along the way to correct the poor work of previous surgeons! For one the steering column adjustment now works correctly whereas it was jammed before (the spring release had been installed with the spring on the inside of the mounting....doing nothing). More finger tight screws and others missing.
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Initially I thought the origin of the water's ingress was solved and that this was, to all intents and purposes, madness...
I mean, who does the matrix replacement for sh1t&giggles..? But I suppose you may not be wasting your time if it's as bad as you suggest...
Proof that FSH and previous careful owners are anything from a-z
I mean, who does the matrix replacement for sh1t&giggles..? But I suppose you may not be wasting your time if it's as bad as you suggest...
Proof that FSH and previous careful owners are anything from a-z
So finally got it all apart and thankfully there is a new heater matrix in there....also thankfully found a fair few of the missing fixings behind the dash, along with a very Heath Robinson install of a Nokia handsfree kit with tentacles going everywhere and the remnants of an old radar jammer....all now removed.
The source of the problem was a very blocked condensate line, blocked at the kink under the evaporator box. Terrible design to be Frank.
Sorted by attaching a bottle to the lower part of the line and making an airtight seal on the pipe and then using it like a set of bellows to blow the crud back up the line, before sucking it back down under negative pressure...whilst feeding it water from the top. Repeated the process until all the crud and leaves had been drawn through the pipe. It now drains out perfectly.
Yes I could have done this without removing the dash but I'm not sure I would have been able to trace it so easily...I can also now put it back together correctly once and for all with the metal / metal heater core, all the correct fixings and have sorted the steering column problem and a few other niggles too.
The source of the problem was a very blocked condensate line, blocked at the kink under the evaporator box. Terrible design to be Frank.
Sorted by attaching a bottle to the lower part of the line and making an airtight seal on the pipe and then using it like a set of bellows to blow the crud back up the line, before sucking it back down under negative pressure...whilst feeding it water from the top. Repeated the process until all the crud and leaves had been drawn through the pipe. It now drains out perfectly.
Yes I could have done this without removing the dash but I'm not sure I would have been able to trace it so easily...I can also now put it back together correctly once and for all with the metal / metal heater core, all the correct fixings and have sorted the steering column problem and a few other niggles too.
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Great Job! Presume you will pay particular attention to prevent possible rattles and squeaks
To round this off - all now back together with new fastnings and clips where required. Took a while to get a few of them from Italy ! Suspect I could have found them cheaper and nearer but given their relatively small cost I thought it better to go from the factory drawings. Rattle and squeak free....and leak free. Hurrah!