Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
From: "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:13:15 -0600
Not true, the plastic that the fans are made of is different from the
polyurothane rubber
that the fascia is made of, it is a flimsy loose noodle if you have ever
handled one.
There is also a lack of support in the design where the warps form.
The tub is made of fiberglass and repells the heat, it flows up and into the
front of the
fascia and builds up on the top of the inside.
It is either this, or the sun but surely not the high beam headlights.
- VB
>From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
>Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:40:09 -0600
>
>If it got that hot the radiator would melt the front end off the car
>and melt the cooling fans plus your engine would have seized due to the
>high temp of the radiator fluid!
>
>Mark V
>
>
>
>On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
>
> >
> > Here is a theory that I haven't heard mentioned.....but maybe the heat
> > that
> > is
> > warping the facsia is not the headlight or the sun, but the RADIATOR
> > directly below?
> > When I leave my car running, I have actually burned by leg and left a
> > mark
> > from
> > the heat that builds up on the fenders from the hot air being blown
> > off the
> > radiator.
> > Then the car is parked after a drive on a hot day, all that head that
> > is
> > built up in the
> > radiator is no longer being blown back and it simply rises up into the
> > inside of the facsia.
> > Combined with the heat of the sun this could reach up to 180-200
> > degrees
> > maybe?
> > This could soften the plastic and then when it cools it warps.
> >
> > That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
> > - Videobob
>
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