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Thought I'd ask the experts on here  None of my cars are garaged and last night was a typical example of with my Shitroen just feeling damp and cold inside and it mists up like mad. Heater matrix doesn't get hot so it's hard to clear. The Datsun never had heating, so with that in the winter I'd have to drive with the windows down blasting cold air on the screen. It works but not ideal. Heating will be back in this though. The Thunderbird is ok. The heating in this thing is mad hot but it still could do with dehumidfying as in winter it mists behind the glass in the gauges and the cold chrome inside collects condensation. So, what tricks are there to absorb the moisture? Bucket of salt? A kilo of silica gel? Any ideas are welcome  |
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1962 Ford Thunderbird 6.4L
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS CA18DET
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS SR20DE
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ive a couple of things that help
if its a fine dry day...dry the windows with a microfibre cloth and leave the winodws cracked open /tailgate open if you can....don't leave the wet cloths in the car
when your heating works...get it nice and hot and then a mile before home open the windows so its outside temps inside , seems to help a fair bit on mine
check you havent got water leaks ..while all old cars seem to mist up a bit , its often bad water leaks on the worse ones
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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Also check that your door drains arent blocked, that can cause misting.
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alexg
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You can buy some stuff to apply to your windscreen called MistGard. Stops it misting up apparently. Never used it so don't know how good it is. But its in Halfords for a few quid.
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1990 'G' Rover Metro GTI 1.8 VVC
1985 Sinclair C5
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Leave a pot of salt in your car.
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Leave a pot of salt in your car. That's what i allways did in me caravans over winter ;D |
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Got one of them in a fiesta thats been out the back of my house for 6 months. Dry as a bone in there. |
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I tried one of those salt based caravan dehumidifyers for a car i had to scrape the insides of the windows every cold morning.. Didn't do the slightest difference.
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i keep waiting for the Rangie to steam up so i can test the heated screen.  |
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Looks like the Frost item is most suitable for me. Cheers
I drove the Thunderbird tonight after college for the first time in 2 weeks and it's now nice and toasty in there. There was light mist in one of the gauges. I suspect the moisuture could be coming in from the door or something but couldn't detect it.
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1962 Ford Thunderbird 6.4L
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS CA18DET
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS SR20DE
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jet wash or car wash usually steams them up or shows up leaks if you need to find them.
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Well the passenger side rear window rubber is definitely in bad shape. Thing is it's not bad on the windows for mist, it's just most noticeable on one of the gauges for some reason. My Shitroen is way worse. All windows mist up on that and it even feels damp in there.
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1962 Ford Thunderbird 6.4L
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS CA18DET
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS SR20DE
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Friend's brother-in-law had a Xantia of that vintage and his damp was traced down to two places- the duct below the front screen got blocked up with pine needles and wasn't draining right, and the seal around the rear hatch had a dribble in the corner and the boot doesn't drain well.
Couple hours with a vacuum cleaner, hosepipe and various other poking tools and the front didn't leak, the rear was solved by a replacement seal from a scrappy...
The carpet in the boot holds a lot of water and doesn't see much air circulation and tends to hold water. We ended up taking it out, hosing the crud off it and putting it in the cupboard with his boiler for a few days, seemed to solve that.
Failing that at work we had a DeLonghi dehumidifier which we'd stick in our airplanes for a few days, especially in wintertime to dry them out, as they used to leak like sieves. That's effective but those things aren't really cheap.
Bucket of rice can sometimes work but when it gets damp makes the car smell funky. If you can get them, the little sachets full of silica gel that come with computer equipment and other electronics (not the tiny teabag ones, the bigger ones about the size of your fist) go well in the oven at 80c for about 6 hours, then just flung on a tray or cardboard in the vehicle and left to absorb moisture, a small fan inside helps to stir the air up.
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Thats interesting, my Xantia is parked under a tree that right now is shedding lots of pine needles everywhere. Thanks for the tip, I'll see what I can clean out from it.
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1962 Ford Thunderbird 6.4L
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS CA18DET
1981 Datsun Bluebird SSS SR20DE
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I've got about six of those bags of silica gel scattered around my golf, had a bad leak about a year ago, foot well was full of water, but its dry as a bone in there now.
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yeah if my car has a small leak or feels damp i just hit upa shoe shop and nick a load .....
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wouldnt you need thousands of those show box packs to do a car...lets face it they're meant to be able to handle a shoe box size area , gona be like p1ssing in the wind using a few in car
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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berendd
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open your windows before you park it up, the warm air inside contains more moisture than cold air is capable of, so when the warm air cools down, the moisture settles in the cloth or windows. When you let the warm air out before parking the moisture is out too.
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we have the same problem with the wife's polo. just got a little dehumidifier pot thingy for it from the local £1 shop I'll let you know if it works
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