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Smell of screenwash?

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Disco Matt:
Yeah, it had faded this afternoon. The sun came out and it got pretty warm in the car which would naturally help evaporate it. I did find some leaves around one of the washer jets which could have had something to do with it - if they got soaked they'd act like a sponge dipped in screenwash and held near the vents.

Saffy:
worry if you start tasting it

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/pneumonia_screenwash/

well lack of tasting it in fact :lol:

lurch_917:
also the air intake for the heater is in your wndscreen scuttle on the passanger side with this weather youd be using your wash whipe more thuse more screenwash hanging around in there

Frankie-Boy:

Next time you go under the car check the heater box drain tubes, these can be found either side of the transmission tunnel near the bell housing, they are about 25mm in diameter and have squashed rubber ends to them, pull the ends off and you'll probably get a cupful of black stinky water running down your arm.

Have fun.  :D

Disco Matt:
Sounds just like the drains on Mazda MX5s - they have a couple of pipes running down through the bodywork behind the doors which get blocked, leading to water pooling where it shouldn't be. The cure is simple - straighten a bit of garden wire and use it to rod the drain. Only snag is that your feet will be precisely underneath said drain when you're standing in the right place to feed the wire in...

The smell was back again this morning, even though I hadn't used the washers for ages. I can't fathom it at all, but providing it isn't a sign of something about to go horrifically expensively wrong I'll live with it. I've been checking coolant and oil levels and condition hawk-like after the temp gauge started climbing on a hill (it didn't get out of the safe zone in the middle, radiator was half-full of mud, so cleared that and had no repeat of the problem but still!) I would quite like to play in the snow this year after a soggy Britpart spring made it unusable during most of the last lot.

Wonder if I can get some research funding out of being the world's first vehicular hypochondriac? :lol:

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