Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
From: "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:44:53 -0600
I am sure you're right, because I put a brand new fascia on last Febuary and
it is already
showing signs of warping, I had to park it outside in the sun last summer
and the
Texas sun is not kind.
Now I have it under a car port at least!
I did install some metal eyebrow preventors that I made myself out of some
aluminum
bars from Home Depot, but I made them too big and now they have caused
little dimples
where the edges are....damn.
I wish these were fiberglass.
- 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 22:27:44 -0600
>
>It is the sun, trust me because this happens to low mileage cars too. I
>have 59,000 miles on my car and no warpage but my car spent time in a
>garage stored and that is why the sun hasnt warped it yet.
>
>Mark V
>
>
>On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:13 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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