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nctnico:

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--- Quote from: nctnico on November 27, 2019, 11:27:35 am ---BTW: I did have a weird electric problem in my Toyota. If I switched off the rear window wiper at a specific point it would blow the fuse. I ended up with installing a big fat PTC fuse in series with the rear wiper motor to fix that.

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Do you mean the fuse blew 'when' you turned it off, or when turning on again?? Of course the wiper
should return to the bottom first, even when turned off. If not, then the power off micro switch would
have been faulty... Strange...

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The fuse blew when I turned it off. But only if I turned it off right before it reached the 'home' position. I guess it was more like a fault in the circuit.
SparkyFX:

--- Quote from: nctnico on November 27, 2019, 11:27:35 am ---However nowadays cars which are sold in these kind of areas have a zinc layer on them to prevent rusting.
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Still underbody Teroson-like coat and wax in enclosed spaces for those i know.


--- Quote ---BTW: I did have a weird electric problem in my Toyota. If I switched off the rear window wiper at a specific point it would blow the fuse. I ended up with installing a big fat PTC fuse in series with the rear wiper motor to fix that.
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Most rear wipers have a hardwired end position switch within their enclosure to open the circuit once triggered, maybe the other side of a changeover contact that is supposed to be open has contact to chassis or the override to start the wiper is affected (active ground?). Most likely the wiring harness between roof and tailgate broke and has a short circuit... Often these harnesses can be obtained as inplace fix (cut out old, crimp in new).
G7PSK:
My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.
The Soulman:
 
--- Quote from: G7PSK on November 27, 2019, 05:14:42 pm ---My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

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:-DD
james_s:

--- Quote from: vk6zgo on November 27, 2019, 02:55:31 am ---The salt thing reminds me of living in Southampton UK & seeing cars which would have pretty much been in their "adolescent" years in Australia, pretty much rusted out.
They were believers in salting the roads, as well as adding "chippings"(small pieces of hard rock, similar to those used in roadbase).
A better recipe for underbody rust couldn't be found!

It's not as if the weather was that savage----it only snowed twice in the 10 months or so I was there.

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I went to Chicago for work last year and it was really noticeable how there are NO cars older than about 10 years old on the roads there and many that are only about 8 years old already have rusted out areas in the fenders. Several years ago I worked on a car for a friend of a friend who had moved here from Michigan and while it looked ok on the surface, the subframe had rusted out so badly that the entire steering rack broke free and turning the wheel caused the rack to slide back and forth instead of aiming the front wheels. It was miraculous that it held together until she turned into a parking lot that happened to be near my house instead of breaking somewhere during the ~1800 mile drive. I've heard people say that modern cars don't rust but they absolutely do, not as bad as they did up through the 70s but it still happens. It's just not as visible because there's so much plastic and paint has improved but they rot out underneath and from the inside out.

Salt is horrible, nasty stuff. It absolutely destroys cars and it rusts out infrastructure like bridges and light poles. That was another thing I saw in Chicago, light poles with nasty rusted out bases, some of which had been patched up with welded in repairs. Even out here on the rare occasions it snows I hear people moaning that they need to salt the roads and I don't get it, they must have NO idea how destructive it is. Driving in snow with appropriate tires is no big deal, salt makes everything a slushy mess with patches of ice and causes untold billions of dollars in damage. Salt has no business being put on roads anywhere.
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