You can try soaking with diesel and oil mixture. But I had a captivated nut start to spin and used a Silverline finger sander belt to get in and sand it off. A real PITB. Also cut away enough of the sound dreading on the bulkhead to get a good square on purchase on the bolt heads.
I was thinking of putting one in the side of the dash centre if I can, just need to remove the vents/cup holders to check were there's the most space
Morning Dave,This morning i cleaned out and re greased Ethels OSS guide rails...annual spring event for me.
Such a great color! Proper oxidized copper
Evening,
What else Audi A2 owner can do on first day of his week off.....maintain his car
And this despite @timmus and I having put sealant around the rear vents when we installed the PDC rear bumper last Autumn! I've now sponged out the water as far as possible, I just hope my Diversity unit and particularly the BOSE sub are OK ...
Firstly, good to hear no one is injured as it could have been so much different. Next question has Crystal got OSS? I had water getting in and trickling down near the back side window panel, as the car was Sorn at the time I drilled a few 6 mm holes in the battery trying as it's only GRP so water in water out. It stayed like this until Adam K worked through his OSS fix list which solved the leakToday was NOT a good car day
First, at my partner Lynette's house in Chesham, my lovely Volvo C70 convertible was most likely written off by a runaway DPD Sprinter van, which rolled back down the hill while the driver was out making a delivery. The Volvo was pushed sideways into her Yaris, so it has damage on every panel both sides, with a huge mess where the driver's door was. The Yaris has a load more minor cuts & grazes to add to its collection but is luckily still perfectly useable now that I've pulled out the front and rear wings. Thank goodness, no-one was injured. We had been about to load up the Volvo to take her daughter back to Uni in Derby: if I'd been checking the tyre pressures beforehand as I usually do, I shudder to think what the situation might be right now
Eventually we ended up taking the Yaris to my house in Leighton Buzzard and picking up my Crystal TDI75 for the rest of the journey to Derby. While fitting a rear seat to it for the second passenger, I noticed some mould on the boot floor carpet ... and a look underneath revealed a battery tray with about 2" of water in the bottom
only to find the one via the rear vents behind the bumper. These A2 like to test us. Hope you find & fix yours soon. Is one side of your rear seats wet? That's what I found on the vent seal issue.
Name and phone number, I can get the policy from AskMID (for a nominal fee) anyway. Having filled in the claim last night, my insurers have already responded that they're treating it as a total loss, before I've even sent them any photos. They'll doubtless way undervalue it and I'll have to go after his insurers to recover its real value.
She's a tin-top, which is why this has surprised me so much. I run around in van-mode nearly all of the time with polythene over the boot floor, because we do the supermarket waste food run for the local community fridge fairly often, but I very rarely have a second passenger. I'll have to investigate further soon: with the events of yesterday I haven't had any time so far except to sponge out what water was there.
