cleaning up after water ingress

[steve_earwig]

Those ones on Amazon are dirt cheap, but this time of year I don't think you'll be wanting to experiment, you need something that definitely works

[gRoberts]

Thankfully the water ingress was only rain water and not from spray or the road otherwise the salt would completely rot the car away. I've sorted the leak so it's only a matter of cleaning up what's already there.

I'll start stuffing newspaper etc down there to get rid of any more surplus water and go from there.

[Welly]

plus run the air con on max heat to warm things up & it dehumidifies too.

Running the heating on max disables the air con compressor, you're best to run it 1 degree less than max; either 29 from 30 or 31 from 32 can't remember how high it goes.

Crap time of year for drying out a car though

[gRoberts]

I'm dreading to think what that'd do to my fuel economy lol

This is on a Ford remember, I'm not sure if the same would apply?

I'll have a play around, unfortunately, I'm pretty busy for about a month and the only time I get to do anything is on the weekend, when I'm travelling lol

[Welly]

Oh yeah, but actually on my Ford (sorry, 'Volvo') the climate turns off the a/c in max-heat.

[gRoberts]

I have a max button that wacks everything on high and turns the air con on to clear the windscreen (used in conjunction with the heated windscreen)

I've not actually used it before, so it might be time to see how it works

[FarmerPug]

Pull the carpet up and dry it that way,
My yellow panda when i bought it come with a broken rear window and had been so for about 6 weeks before i bought it, and the previous owner (previous owners always get blamed dont they) he used newspaper to dry the water up, but got lazy and didnt remove it, so it was dried in and smelly, the boot was swamped in what looked like turd soup, with wee lumpy bits being what remained of the boot floor, the back carpet had newspaper under it, and to clean it took a strong stomach it was stinking beyond belief, i took the back seats out and ripped up the back carpet, got a stanley knife and drew a line from where the front seats stopped, pulled out the back carpet and burnt it (yes it was that bad) then cleaned the floor in the boot and back with jeyes fluid, went to a local carpet dealer and got an odd end of black carpet and stuck it into the car using that spray sticky stuff did the job well. The back boot floor was cut out of good plywood and carpeted also. And a new window put in. Still though the car was a bit damp smelling so i got it steamed cleaned, and kept an electric heater in it, but what really killed the smell was buying out of the chippy for a week and eating it in the car.
The fiat when i bought was really in bad nic, front wing dented, rear window put through and all the water associated with that, it was yellow, baldy front tyres, i found bullets in it, and cigarette butts and ashes. But even so it was £1000 for a 2004 car with 40k miles and this was in 2007, i had all fixed by the time it was sold on.

[gRoberts]

Not overly keen (clean?) about the word knife anywhere near the carpets lol

I can't even cut a sandwhich without f**king it up, so trying to carefully cut carpets and what not, no chance lol

At the worst, I'll find a water damage company to fix it ;)

[Welly]

Reminds me of my mate years ago trying to cut the carpet in a Ford Escrote using a stanley knife....it slipped and sliced his thumb enough to see the bone inside and bits of flesh and torn sinew - there was blood all over the place and he was spewing up at the same time

Is it lunch time yet?

[FarmerPug]

just eating a sandwich now ye ask. The fiat carpet worked superbly well, overlapped it a bit on the front bit of original carpet and used pink grip to hold it down extra strong, you wouldnt have noticed it and the house grade carpet was much better than the kleenex think stuff fiat had used.
You could go for the metal look as i did in my suzuki, i got a hold of the carpet with pliers and ripped all out, no damp to worry about.

[gRoberts]

Yum.. I could imagine the panic. reminds me of when the family were about to travel to france (we drive there every year) and it was absolutely pissing it down and our Carlton's windscreen wipers failed.

We stopped up at a service station in the town we lived in and had a look. Whilst my dad was looking around, I'm absolutely sure he said turn the windscreen wipers on. As a result, his finger was caught inside the metal mechanism that rotates lol

We then spent about 4+ hours in A+E waiting for his finger to be stitched back together. Dispite the doctors warnings, he then drove 500+ miles to get a ferry and then about another 700 once we were in france, all with a mangled finger.

Oops lol