Engine Bay

[LOCKE]

Does anyone else find when washing the car you get a lot of water around the slam panel?

 

[Jimmy]

Do you mean by the bonnet latch?? If so, yeah I get a lot of water pooling there, always have done. Needs a good mopping out with a microfibre!

 

[LOCKE]

Yeah exactly there. It drains away ok but when I dry the car there is always a drip from the diamond (must be the drainage route). Must be the half bonnet design!

 

[sevenfourate]

ANOTHER Renault 'floor' ?

Hard to believe......

But yes - bugs the hell out of me too......

 

[Pav]

not but here but there's some..

 

[Adam_C]

Something like this may help http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/washing-and-drying/metro-vac-sidekick-blaster/prod_1152.html its on my to buy list

 

[Chris]

Something like this may help http://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/washing-and-drying/metro-vac-sidekick-blaster/prod_1152.html its on my to buy list

This is cheaper.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00660BI72/?tag=clio197-21

 

[LOCKE]

I use the wife's old hair dryer!

 

[Pav]

the cheapest..

 

[Adam_C]

This is cheaper.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00660BI72/?tag=clio197-21

Would look like a right tool carrying that around blowing it at your car :excited:

 

[Jimmy]

This is cheaper.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00660BI72/?tag=clio197-21

Trust you to know where to go for the best blow

 

[Pav]

Trust you to know where to go for the best blow

he certainly does

 

[sevenfourate]

So if cleaning the whole car:

1/ Under the hood first - only to have to go back after doing the outside and clear up the leakages under the hood, or:

2/ Outside first - then lift bonnet to find the 'normal' leak on the front panel and then have drips running down the bonnet into the engine bay too ?

Decisions, decisions............

 

[Jimmy]

So if cleaning the whole car:

1/ Under the hood first - only to have to go back after doing the outside and clear up the leakages under the hood, or:

2/ Outside first - then lift bonnet to find the 'normal' leak on the front panel and then have drips running down the bonnet into the engine bay too ?

Decisions, decisions............

A dilemma indeed! But if the bonnet has been dried, you should be drip-less?

 

[Pav]

 

[sevenfourate]

A dilemma indeed! But if the bonnet has been dried, you should be drip-less?

Its the ones that get in the gaps and come back on themselves and hang under the bonnet like stalagmites you have to watch out for. One twitchy move and they drop.....right on that battery cover you've just cleaned. I swear they do it for fun

 

[Jimmy]

Its the ones that get in the gaps and come back on themselves and hang under the bonnet like stalagmites you have to watch out for. One twitchy move and they drop.....right on that battery cover you've just cleaned. I swear they do it for fun

They're also clever at resting underneath the rear wiper and then dripping down the bootlid when you close it after drying off the shuts!

 

[sevenfourate]

Your not wrong Jimmy.

They are related i tell you. Blood-brothers with a mission to ruin lives.

 

[Jimmy]

They also get in the wing mirrors - they definitely breed in there, there's no end of them running down the doors, even hours after the cleaning has finished

 

[Pav]

and side bullets too..