Mechanical help from the "Beast from the east"

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Disco 2 door handles are a remarkably shit design that are guaranteed to freeze solid. "Carplan" finest* deicer is also shit, if you leave it in the car the pressure drops so it just trickles on your hand.

 

I've had much success with silicone spray and door handles. Our tailgate handle was a fucker when it felt like it... Not anymore! Same for door seals and freezing to the doors.

[cobblers]

Girlfriend had a bottle of Halfords branded antifreeze (neat, unopened) in the boot back in 2010 which had turned slushy. Female logic - "but it's not frozen solid and the ice will go when it warms up, won't it?".

 

 

IIRC neat antifreeze freezes easier than diluted stuff, for science reasons. I ran neat screenwash years ago and it just slimed out of the washer jets when it was -4 ish.

[forddeliveryboy]

Water is truly weird stuff - unfreezing slushy chemicals at sub zero temps, losing density between 4C and 0C even while still a liquid, and so on. And so full of Hydrogen which requires even more energy to release then store than it contains.

[fordperv]

I've also heard trickling water sounds from behind the dash too, but I have no idea what, if anything, that is indicative of.

That noise will be air getting around the heater matrix, can be some thing as little as an innocent airlock that you've never noticed, but if I were you for peace of mind do get the usual hgf checks done though

[Squire_Dawson]

Can't say this 'beast' caused me any problems...

 

 

other than it being too cold to do the odd job I wanted to do.

[Mally]

Looks like rear wheel steering from that angle.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Loving the Aggro - P reg will be Antique gold....?

 

BL stuff was all but unstoppable with the Princess being a snowmobile. Minis, Maxis etc were all good.

[Magpie215]

Almost had an allagro as my first car.....unfortunately got talked into a 78 1.3L mk1 chavalier instead

[Squire_Dawson]

Loving the Aggro - P reg will be Antique gold....?

 

BL stuff was all but unstoppable with the Princess being a snowmobile. Minis, Maxis etc were all good.

 

Thanks. Yes, I have used it for the last 4 or 5 years since I put it back on the road without any trouble or deterioration. The secret is regular washing (underneath) in winter and necessary attention in summer and autumn. This car is a late Mk.1 in Harvest Gold, first owner a former Austin employee.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Yeah, it looks more Harvesty in the third pic. OD is a West Country reg isn't it? Devon Cornwall?

[Isaac Hunt]

Fooken washer jets are frozen solid, forgot to put neat shite in the bottle and my mix just won't cut the deep freeze. Ended up tailgating lorries on the DC just so they could throw enough shite up to moisten the screen.

 

Headlamp washer jet covers are hanging out the bumper. Who needs that shit anyway as if a dirty headlamp is gonna get cleaned from a spray of "stuff'. Think about it, your screen is white and if your jets ain't frozen, you give the screen a spray, it doesn't clear until you wipe, so how the feck are the headlamps gonna clean right up without wipers. This is a poverty spec headlamp wash, sort of bidet style, dampened but not wiped.

 

Note to self, take the fuse out of the feckers and leave it out for good, simple conversion to a downgrade upgrade.

 

Note to self, do not try any handbrake turn antics, remember ones yoof when you did a spectacular entrance in a Mk3 Cortina Estate and misjudged the kerb buried in the snow and buckled the steely 'proper like'. Hammered the rim flat and deployed it to the spare and lived in gratefulness that a half shaft wasn't fully shafted. Remember thy lesson self.

[Squire_Dawson]

Yeah, it looks more Harvesty in the third pic. OD is a West Country reg isn't it? Devon Cornwall?

 

That's right, supplied by Blacklers of Paignton, I bought it from the second owner in Totnes, it still has the dealer sticker.