My car is melting!!

[s p a c e m a n]

'Walkie-Talkie' skyscraper melts Jaguar car parts. The downside of making panels out of plastic, do things like this happen in hotter countries?

If I was a little bit childish I would be there today with plastic cups and bits of paper

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675

[Asterix]

Sort of.

Here in Dubai it's not unusual to see older cars with ruined dashboards that have bubbled, split, expanded etc... Roof linings are also susceptible to the glue deteriorating and coming away, as has mine!

But it's a long term thing - not immediate like the Jag.

[motco]

It's not melting as such, but stress relief resulting in distortion. In the polymer technology jargon it is called 'heat distortion temperature'. There is always some frozen-in stress in a moulding and this temperature reduces the stiffness of the material sufficiently that this stress manifests itself as distortion until the frozen-in stress is released. It will be very unlikely to get worse with even higher temperatures once the stress is relieved. Incorrect material selection together with highly stressed mouldings will result in this. Unfortunate for the owner that the focussed sun rays raised the moulding locally above its heat distortion temperature.

[GTIR]

Asterix said:

Sort of.

Here in Dubai it's not unusual to see older cars with ruined dashboards that have bubbled, split, expanded etc... Roof linings are also susceptible to the glue deteriorating and coming away, as has mine!

But it's a long term thing - not immediate like the Jag.

You can usually buy soft dashboard matts for that reason. I had one in Australia.

I also tried to buy one here in the UK. No one sells them!

[Asterix]

GTIR said:

Asterix said:

Sort of.

Here in Dubai it's not unusual to see older cars with ruined dashboards that have bubbled, split, expanded etc... Roof linings are also susceptible to the glue deteriorating and coming away, as has mine!

But it's a long term thing - not immediate like the Jag.

You can usually buy soft dashboard matts for that reason. I had one in Australia.

I also tried to buy one here in the UK. No one sells them!

My car is never left without a screen shade. Apparently it's the UV as much as the heat for the dashboards.

[Lostprophet]

Damn you beat me to it... I was going to post this story.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/look-walkie-talkie-skyscraper...

[Shaw Tarse]

Lostprophet said:

Damn you beat me to it... I was going to post this story.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/look-walkie-talkie-skyscraper...

And puddenchucker beat you both to it http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...