| Author | Message | ||
     Jeffrey McCarthy Prolific User Username: jefmac2003 Post Number: 225 Registered: 5-2007 |
I just today removed the rear parcel shelf trim to do some work on SRH20280 (1974) and noticed that the 2 wires for the rear window demister disappear into the rubber around the screen. Can I assume that these were once connected to internal demister wires in a previous rear windscreen - this one is obviously not the original. Short of buying a new screen with the wires in it I'm considering mounting one of those hair-dryer type aftermarket hot air blowers (the ones with the overheat cut-out) in the boot to send hot air through the little wire screens on the parcel shelf. Perhaps I've got it wrong and there's a glass heater along the base of the screen? Any advice, as always, much appreciated. | ||
| Paul Yorke Grand Master Username: paul_yorke Post Number: 688 Registered: 6-2006 |
Jeffery, there should be almost invisible wires running vertically through the glass. Do not try and pull the wires. | ||
| Jeffrey McCarthy Prolific User Username: jefmac2003 Post Number: 226 Registered: 5-2007 |
You're right Paul - they are nearly invisible. I've cleaned that windscreen dozens of times and never saw them till this morning! I'll have to wait for a foggy day now to see if it still works. | ||
| Paul Yorke Grand Master Username: paul_yorke Post Number: 690 Registered: 6-2006 |
posh. eh?  | ||
| Jeffrey McCarthy Prolific User Username: jefmac2003 Post Number: 227 Registered: 5-2007 |
Positively discrete! I'm glad I found out about it before I had the screen removed for tinting and a new seal. I'll get one of the local RR experts to do that job I think. | ||
| Stefan Morley Prolific User Username: myupctoys Post Number: 228 Registered: 7-2009 |
Hi, First noticed it when I saw the moire effect through the rear vision mirror. Made me wonder what caused it. Very neat. This will give people a chuckle. Tried to take the car out for a spin the other day but didn't get far. An Echidna decided the garage was a nice place to hole up and just behind the rear wheel was a good spot to camp. Took him two hours to decide to move on. Seemed like an easy exercise to encourage him but if anyone has tried to move one they will know what an impossible task it is. Least ways not without hurting them. Just lucky its easy to see the underneath of the car walking into the garage. Guilty offender.  Sort of nice to know they are around. Cheers Stefan | ||
| James Feller Prolific User Username: james_feller Post Number: 157 Registered: 5-2008 |
Its amazing you mention echindas Stefan. This and the platapus the only 2 monotreams in the world to my knowledge and australian at that! I was driving a Spanish friend of mine through the hunter valley earlier this year and was trying to explain to him what an echinda looked like. He had googled 'australian animals' and thought echcinda was a joke and not real. Would you believe while we were driving to where my grandparents property is about 30 mintues from Singleton on a deserted road, I caught sight of what looked like a grass plant moving across the road.... clearly grass plants don't move.... yes it was, amazingly enough, an echinda. As most Aussies would know it is very rare to see them in the wild and even rarer to see them during the day out in the open. I pulled the car over and we got out and I showed him exactly what an echinda was.... this brave Spanish 'matador' was quite fearful at first but I explained they were not agressive and so long as you leave them alone they will do you know harm. The chances of seeing these lovely animals in the wild are so remote and rare and the chances of then seeing one with a disbelieving Spaniard are even rarer... god I love Australia!!! As luck would have it he had his camera and got a picture to prove. ohh he was impressed with the Turbo R by the way, but he talked incessently and non stop in 'spanglish' about the amazing fauna he had just seen all the way back to Sydney.... Cheers J | ||
| Stefan Morley Prolific User Username: myupctoys Post Number: 229 Registered: 7-2009 |
Hi James, In certain locations there more common than one would think. Very shy of any human activity though. We've had a couple around this spring, might correspond to the season. Seems to have brought on an influx of jumping ants. These little buggers http://home.iprimus.com.au/foo7/jumperant.html There seems to be two types. One is about an 30mm long and solitary, one about 20mm long and form a nest. The poison isn't in the bite but in a sting from the back end. Certainly know you've been had. The shorter one can jump up to about 2>>3 inches and very aggressive if its warm and your near the nest. Not sure if the Echidna's eat these but assume if the jumping ants are having a good season other types will as well. It is a privilege to see one though. Cheers Stefan |
