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ceedy · 1st January 2020, 10:39

Just found a car with a really stupid plenum drain design, makes ours looks pretty tidy

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Renault kangoo, my elderly neighbour had a flood on the pessenger floor, so had a read up on the net and unblock his drains , but this plenum area has a approx 8 x 6 inch hole which you can seen the blower fan thro' .
and this hole is only about an inch or so up from the plenum floor so any more than that waterwise and it just pours in the cabin, or if less it will probably come through when cornering..

dem frenchies

C.

edwardmk · 8th January 2020, 19:41

So that's one more struck off my bucket list.

Comfortably Numb · 8th January 2020, 23:24

Probably the same idiot designer that put window motors in the door bottoms on the post-2003 Renault ranges, and made the drain holes in the door bottoms so small that the motors flooded in a heavy downpour. By contrast, I stupidly drove my R19 16v cabrio through 2 feet of running flood water in the Cumbrian floods a few years back. Water came over the bonnet, through the bonnet venturi, and filled up the plug tubes between the cam banks (the rubber seals had perished on the tubes). The car drove 50 yards through the flood, and kept running while I enquired if the driver of a stranded and very dead micra needed any help. However, my car expired a couple of hundred yards further on, as one by one, the plugs shorted out. Surprisingly, once the water in the plug tubes was evacuated, the car restarted from cold, and suffered no long term problems, not even the carpets got damp (unlike the Rover). My current Mk1 Megane convertible appears to be equally well-made and watertight.

1st January 2020, 10:39	#1
ceedy This is my second home All Trophy Blue ,ZT260#50 , ZT CDTI Auto, ZR105+ and 1.8T Firefrost spoiling the Set . Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Nr Sherborne But in Somerset.. Posts: 6,075 Thanks: 916 Thanked 1,214 Times in 768 Posts	Plenums Just found a car with a really stupid plenum drain design, makes ours looks pretty tidy . Renault kangoo, my elderly neighbour had a flood on the pessenger floor, so had a read up on the net and unblock his drains , but this plenum area has a approx 8 x 6 inch hole which you can seen the blower fan thro' . and this hole is only about an inch or so up from the plenum floor so any more than that waterwise and it just pours in the cabin, or if less it will probably come through when cornering.. dem frenchies C. __________________ The Three Bloo's Wifey's Zr105, MY CDTI & 260 #50 and Number One sons 1.8T in Firefrost When I were a lad Zero to 142 in 10.25 secs at the Pod on my Blown Norton. 210 Kart Champ in 70's

8th January 2020, 19:41	#2
edwardmk Gets stuck in MG ZT 260, Rover 75 Connie SE auto Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Redruth Posts: 984 Thanks: 1,324 Thanked 399 Times in 271 Posts	Renault Kangoo So that's one more struck off my bucket list.

8th January 2020, 23:24	#3
Comfortably Numb Posted a thing or two Rover 75 Saloon Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Penrith Posts: 1,336 Thanks: 165 Thanked 303 Times in 241 Posts	Probably the same idiot designer that put window motors in the door bottoms on the post-2003 Renault ranges, and made the drain holes in the door bottoms so small that the motors flooded in a heavy downpour. By contrast, I stupidly drove my R19 16v cabrio through 2 feet of running flood water in the Cumbrian floods a few years back. Water came over the bonnet, through the bonnet venturi, and filled up the plug tubes between the cam banks (the rubber seals had perished on the tubes). The car drove 50 yards through the flood, and kept running while I enquired if the driver of a stranded and very dead micra needed any help. However, my car expired a couple of hundred yards further on, as one by one, the plugs shorted out. Surprisingly, once the water in the plug tubes was evacuated, the car restarted from cold, and suffered no long term problems, not even the carpets got damp (unlike the Rover). My current Mk1 Megane convertible appears to be equally well-made and watertight.