RE: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
From: "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:39:38 -0500
Take a look at the one in the "concours" folder. That one has been in the
sun all of its life.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: DMCVIN6683 [mailto:dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 11:28 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
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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