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Submarine?! Ok, we've seen that mug shot you call a picture of yourself, heard of your troubles with the law, you're always coming up with electrical circuits for whatever nefarious purpose may strike your whim (who knows what you do for people outside this board), and see in your signature (probably only just a few of) the multiple locations you reside in... All very mysterious...

Steve

QuickDrive - Oh, that sucks... So you have a lot of moisture. What's the greatest length of time you've had the car running with the A/C on, the temperature at full heat, the blower motor on speed 4, and the duct control set to "HEAT?" A long road trip that way might help a lot, especially if you also have desiccant in the car at the time, or even just kitty little sprinkled all over the carpeting.

Steve - Hahaha.... That reminds me, then -- I do have at least one other picture of me online:

http://www.brainteam.org/2002/2002.jpg

Also pictured is the submarine I speak of: the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. One year we put an active cooling system in that caused condensation inside the hull, so we used silica gel.

See http://www.brainteam.org/ and http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/water.cfm for more information.

My longest heat related journey would be 3 hours, maybe more...

Yeah, I don't know where it came from, there's no holes in the floor, but the rear passenger carpet was soaked one time.. I vacuumed most of it out and haven't really gotten back to it, too cold to be outdoors messing with that. But yes wet would be a better term. than moist. That's kind of why I'm waiting to spring as well.

Has anyone removed their complete interior? er, well seats/ carpet? is it a long hard process?

QuickDrive wrote:My longest heat related journey would be 3 hours, maybe more...

With the heat and A/C full blast, coming out of the floor ducts?

Has anyone removed their complete interior? er, well seats/ carpet? is it a long hard process?

Seats are easy to remove. Just undo 4 bolts (14mm heads I think) for each of the front seats, and a few little screws to separate the seat belts. They should be clear after you remove the plastic covers around the base. The rear seat has just three 12mm-head screws: two on the front that you'll see and one between the two cushions in the center. Then the bench will pull out and you can lift the back up and out.

The carpeting looks like it would be fairly straightforward after that but I haven't actually pulled it myself.

No, not with the heat full blast.

I'm sure it'll be a weekends work to remove the seats and carpet, look for and fix minor problems, reroute my trunk and gas door poppers into the center console, and wire my car stereo.

Should be fun

I've run for about an hour or so with heat on full blast. It was insane. I don't know if your heaters are like mine, but it was rather cold outside, and by the time I was close to being home, I was sweating!!

Yeah, it definitely can get uncomfortable... I've done it a few times though to dry out the interior. Sometimes I kept the sunroof and/or windows open, which helped some, but I would imagine hurt the cause of drying stuff out a little.

maybe i'll dig my car out and wipe down the inside windows. I usually dont use window cleaner on the inside, as long as you have a dry, very clean cloth, all the crap thats on the inside SHOULD come off.

Oil from peoples' fingerprints requires some kind of solvent. For some reason my windshield always gets fingerprints all over the inside.

An old trick if the defrost packs up is to cut a potato and rub it on the inside of the window to prevent fogging.

Steve

you need some form of solvent/cleaner. maybe if your windows are rather clean with a thin film.....but if you think of all the crap that is in the air and that can build up on the windows.....you really need a little bit of something

vrg3 wrote:Oil from peoples' fingerprints requires some kind of solvent. For some reason my windshield always gets fingerprints all over the inside.

sorry

Huh? I don't get it.

it's like the car scene in titanic, except there's more room to get rowdy in a legacy.

I've got a sedan, plenty of room in there, but nothing compared to a wagon.

to get back on topic........... If the windows won't de-fog with the defrost on full, then your heater core may be bad. My friend's 93 oldsmobile's windows would fog up all the time and it turned out to be her heater core. does the air coming out of the vents smell sweet like coolant?

Andrew