Cabin cooling ducts
Discussion
Hi there
I've been trying to trace the route of the cooling ducts for the cabin fresh air. I am getting correct cooling / heating. However my house mates cat decided to pee all over the front of the car while I was on holiday and I can't get rid of the smell, so am investigating the possibility that he's peed somewhere on an air intake!
BTW he also peed inside the car as I left a window open, so have also spent 2 weeks removing the smell from the carpets and trim. This has worked, although the smell returns as soon as you start the cabin blower.
Thanks
Richard
I've been trying to trace the route of the cooling ducts for the cabin fresh air. I am getting correct cooling / heating. However my house mates cat decided to pee all over the front of the car while I was on holiday and I can't get rid of the smell, so am investigating the possibility that he's peed somewhere on an air intake!
BTW he also peed inside the car as I left a window open, so have also spent 2 weeks removing the smell from the carpets and trim. This has worked, although the smell returns as soon as you start the cabin blower.
Thanks
Richard
thats funny because when I bought mine a few months ago there was an awful smell of pee from the car. I figured it was just musky or something....I cleaned the whole thing out inside and it seems to have gone....however once or twice it comes back when I start the car...its almost like the car is made of pee :-)
sounds like a nice cat though :-(
sounds like a nice cat though :-(
drum4it2 said:
what a pain... it may be the pee on the carpet smell coming back when the heat goes on?
Quite possibly, although as I'm down in New Zealand there no need for heating at this time of year... 80)
However, the smell is worse if the car has been left in the sun with the lid on, so maybe there is residual pee in the carpets. Unfortunately I also get the acrid part of the smell which actually hurts the eyes!
More pressing problems, however, as have just got home and found water pouring out the expansion tank onto the drive, although fans are working fine and temp guage showing temps as normal. Very frustrating as the height of summer and perfect driving weather.
Richard
drum4it2 said:
Richard - I'm so jealous, would love to live down there... and take my Chim too!! - all the best from ooop North!
Thanks drum4it2 - see my profile for a piccy of the Tiv sunbathing...
However, it's not all great down here - the speed limits on open roads are 62mph, and are heavily enforced. I've already notched up £ 200 of speeding fines in 6 months and 40 demerit points - 100 and you lose your licence. Get caught doing over 90mph and you'll lose your licence and possibly your car. They are also clamping down on boy racers, so you can have your car impounded for 28 days for "excessive show of speed" and "intentional loss of traction" - ie wheel spin off the lights and get caught and bye bye car for a month.
Also the driving age here is 15 and you can pick up a Jap import Scooby or Nissan Skyline down the auctions from as little as £2k there are alot of young, inexperienced, dangerous drivers hooning around in high powered cars, sitting a few inches from your rear, waiting to prove they are better than you on the next over taking opportunity. Whereas in the UK I'd have been tempted to give them a burn, here you just let them go and kill themselves somewhere else.
Right, off to test the cooling system.
Cheers
Richard
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