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[Split_Pin]

I've been having a problem with a wet driver's footwell in the A4 recently. The red one had the same issue but clearing the scuttle drain under the battery solved it.

This time though, nothing seemed to work. I tried the above, also completely removing the ECU and wiring junction and re sealing it, checking a hidden drain hole under the hood lid, checking the windscreen pillar drain holes and everything was clear but still the issue persisted. 

The rear footwell wasn't wet so I had initially discounted that. However someone had pointed out that it takes a lot of water under the thick carpet foam insulation before it s noticeable at the surface, a bit like a water table. The front footwells are the lowest point in the car so I then thought maybe the rear footwell was actually wet but it was all running down into the lower front one before it became noticeable. 

I had another prod at the rear foorwell and it is in fact ever so slightly damp right at the sill.

A common point for water ingress is the rear glass window becoming detached from the hood and sure enough, right at the offside lower corner it had - this is looking down from the top:

Some Sikaflex, and I hope I have solved the problem:

I shoved in a big roll of kitchen paper to press the glass upwards.

[richardmorris]

5 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Yes, and? 
Doesn't change the fact that 306s still used broadly the same beams, wonder bushes and all, with slight alterations, the key of which was arm angle. 

The way that AS goes on about this you'd think ZXs were winning grands prix. The actual difference is probably fractions of a femtosecond through a bend. 




 

I was only asking, calm down.

[stuboy]

Dvla relieved me of 80 quid to remove private plate off the galaxy and put on retention, cancelled road tax and insurance and await v5 to then put on marketplace spares or repair and await swaps for ps1 and pet kittens 

[JJ0063]

End of the road for Mother JJ’s Corsa C.  She’s owned it since 2009 and it’s been hanging on each year. MOT today, failed on a ball joint and a bulb… she always has it serviced at the same time as the MOT so he took all 4 wheels off to clean up the brakes etc and found the rear beam rotten - hidden when the wheel is on so wasn’t picked up on the MOT. 
 

Mums decided to scrap it as the bill would be more than the cars worth. Emptied it out and taken it to mine where it’ll sit until I get a price from one of the scrappies or banger boys. 

[Boycie]

8 hours ago, Marshall2810 said:

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of. Looks clean enough so hes getting it serviced and a cambelt change done.

He hadn't decided if he'll move the big lexus on yet. 

That looks very tidy , as it's 80s jap retro it's only going to go up in value 

[alcyonecorporation]

apologies

i was tired of the vacuum cleaner chebbing me in the head because legs a lordy kept falling on it

find her if you can 

[alcyonecorporation]

3 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I was only asking, calm down.

Sorry, another shit day. 

[loserone]

Hope dismembering a mannequin made you feel better.

 

Actually.  I hope you feel better, and the dismemberment is unrelated.

[alcyonecorporation]

Hey, no, it was good (the end of the day, not the mannequin dismemberment). 

It made space for the vacuum cleaner and because I 'improved' the garage, this made me feel better. 

I had a little bit of money left over from the Leonard brake job savefest, so I shashed £20 of it into the SVX's tank and went for a bit of an drive. 



The Fens can pass for France if you know where to look (and avoid the smells from your phone camera sensor melting down after you asked it to shoot at dusk). 
 

[Asimo]

23 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

54 year old 504 wins rally, and then drives home again 😁

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/geordie-duo-win-rally-beijing-31948930

Such a pretty car these.

[loserone]

8 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

dismemberment

[alcyonecorporation]

upgrading is not on the priority list rn but thanks for thinking of me 

[Lord Sterling]

23 hours ago, Marshall2810 said:

Dad's got a new old integra thing which he says he can get in and out of.

Fatha_Sterling used to have one of these in the early 00s. It was an auto and a car I drove a few times (prior to having a licence)

[Datsuncog]

On my way over to pick up a new battery for the Yaris at lunchtime, for much of the time I was sat behind a Signum Elite making its very final journey.

Tugged along behind a T-Met recycling truck already laden with an Astra and a RAV4, this was all green down one side with algae and pretty cobwebby. Apparently the last MOT ran out over two years ago.

Off to sleep with the angels...

[richardmorris]

20 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Sorry, another shit day. 

We all have those, don’t worry.

[puddlethumper]

I'm really extremely  sad at the moment as a very good friend of 25/30 years has taken his own life. He was such a lovely guy but was diagnosed with onset dementia which he told me he would not do. Other things that made him do what he did was that he lived off grid in his Yank motorhome and was going to lose his 7.5 ton licence, also some woman knocked him off his bike about two years ago and he was in extreme pain because of it. I can understand why he did it. He torched his motorhome so his rotten family, two money grabbing brothers and a sister, wouldn't get any of his effects, drove his car down to the bridge in Shoreham, and climbed over the parapet with a rope. Rip Neil. I miss you.

[Wibble]

5 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

I'm really extremely  sad at the moment as a very good friend of 25/30 years has taken his own life. He was such a lovely guy but was diagnosed with onset dementia which he told me he would not do. Other things that made him do what he did was that he lived off grid in his Yank motorhome and was going to lose his 7.5 ton licence, also some woman knocked him off his bike about two years ago and he was in extreme pain because of it. I can understand why he did it. He torched his motorhome so his rotten family, two money grabbing brothers and a sister, wouldn't get any of his effects, drove his car down to the bridge in Shoreham, and climbed over the parapet with a rope. Rip Neil. I miss you.

That is absolutely tragic, I’m so sorry for your loss.

[Lord Sterling]

39 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

I'm really extremely  sad at the moment as a very good friend of 25/30 years has taken his own life. He was such a lovely guy but was diagnosed with onset dementia which he told me he would not do. Other things that made him do what he did was that he lived off grid in his Yank motorhome and was going to lose his 7.5 ton licence, also some woman knocked him off his bike about two years ago and he was in extreme pain because of it. I can understand why he did it. He torched his motorhome so his rotten family, two money grabbing brothers and a sister, wouldn't get any of his effects, drove his car down to the bridge in Shoreham, and climbed over the parapet with a rope. Rip Neil. I miss you.

That's really bad man. I'm so sorry to hear that.

[Asimo]

The end of a mate is always bad, always hurts.  

But your friend had the balls to face it and then to take responsibility for the end of his story.

More than many of us will manage.

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, puddlethumper said:

I'm really extremely  sad at the moment as a very good friend of 25/30 years has taken his own life. He was such a lovely guy but was diagnosed with onset dementia which he told me he would not do. Other things that made him do what he did was that he lived off grid in his Yank motorhome and was going to lose his 7.5 ton licence, also some woman knocked him off his bike about two years ago and he was in extreme pain because of it. I can understand why he did it. He torched his motorhome so his rotten family, two money grabbing brothers and a sister, wouldn't get any of his effects, drove his car down to the bridge in Shoreham, and climbed over the parapet with a rope. Rip Neil. I miss you.

Terrible, must have felt alone too if his family weren’t close.

[alcyonecorporation]

Good god. Raise one to him tonight @puddlethumper

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

I'm really extremely  sad at the moment as a very good friend of 25/30 years has taken his own life. He was such a lovely guy but was diagnosed with onset dementia which he told me he would not do. Other things that made him do what he did was that he lived off grid in his Yank motorhome and was going to lose his 7.5 ton licence, also some woman knocked him off his bike about two years ago and he was in extreme pain because of it. I can understand why he did it. He torched his motorhome so his rotten family, two money grabbing brothers and a sister, wouldn't get any of his effects, drove his car down to the bridge in Shoreham, and climbed over the parapet with a rope. Rip Neil. I miss you.

Ouch. Sorry for your loss, and his. Sounds kinda like I imagine you to be, sound.

[Split_Pin]

5 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

On my way over to pick up a new battery for the Yaris at lunchtime, for much of the time I was sat behind a Signum Elite making its very final journey.

Tugged along behind a T-Met recycling truck already laden with an Astra and a RAV4, this was all green down one side with algae and pretty cobwebby. Apparently the last MOT ran out over two years ago.

Off to sleep with the angels...

I'd really like to find one of those with the 2.0 Turbo petrol engine. It's a GM block, engineered for a Saab 9-3 (called the B207R in 175bhp tune) and then fitted back into a Signum (early Vectra C SRis got them too) and called the Z20NET and a Vauxhall badge slapped on. Such an odd-bod car!

[24vdiamond]

12 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd really like to find one of those with the 2.0 Turbo petrol engine. It's a GM block, engineered for a Saab 9-3 (called the B207R in 175bhp tune) and then fitted back into a Signum (early Vectra C SRis got them too) and called the Z20NET and a Vauxhall badge slapped on. Such an odd-bod car!

I think I've a new crate motor if you really want one 

[wuvvum]

Treated the Renault 6 to a new battery as the existing one (bought dirt cheap several years ago in a Eurocarparts fire sale) was starting to flag.  The new one is slightly smaller but has the same CCA rating and starts the car a lot better than the old one.

My job for the weekend (or for Saturday at least, Sunday was a write-off due to it chucking it down most of the day) was to try to get the passenger windows working - the driver's window goes up and down fine but the windows on the three passenger doors haven't worked for years.  This is less than ideal for ventilation purposes in summer.  The cause was the same for all of them - the little nylon wheels which are supposed to run along tracks in the glass channel were seized solid, so the winders were trying to pull the window at a 45° angle rather than vertically.

Results were a mixed bag.  The front passenger window still won't move at all.  The passenger side rear will smoothly go up and down by about an inch, but no further. 

The driver's side rear will go down further, but it's extremely graunchy and I don't want to wind it down too far in case it won't come back up again.  

Still, I've got enough openings there to ensure a decent through-flow of air when driving, so I'm going to call that a win.

[PhilA]

Nice evening for a drive, so I went out.

Someone asked if I had edited that image to boost the colors and make it look like a video game. 

Nope, the sunsets here are that vivid in summertime. 

Rolled over 120,000 miles on the way.

Phil

[Joey spud]

I look the Beagle hound out last night for a walk through the marina and along the sea wall where she loves to roll around in the grass.

She does it countless times most walks without any problems until yesterday when she started screaming and shaking her head. Eventually she calmed down and once back home she wouldn't let me near her left ear.

Today she's not right and let me look in her ear and it looked fine but obviously sore so off to the vets we went where they looked deep into the ear and removed this grass seed.

She's only a small Beagle so that must of hurt like hell. 

[comfortablynumb]

My sister and ex brother in law had a veterinary practice, grass seeds were the bane of their lives, can cause all sorts of problems. Glad you got it sorted @Joey spud👍

[wuvvum]

Initially there I thought you'd retrieved 20p from the dog's ear and I assumed she'd been digging around in Peugeot 405 handbrake mechanisms...

[wuvvum]

Just renewed the insurance for the Mobylette.  The renewal came through a tenner cheaper than last year but that didn't take my car accidents into account so I rang the insurers and gave them the relevant info.  It put the premium up by... £14.  So £4 more than I was paying last year.  If only my car insurance had been as forgiving...