Does your car weep?
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Does your car weep?
My car has been getting very very warm under and on top of the bonnet. I'd like to get a statistical sampling of other owners that might be sharing this one problem that my R56 has.
After the car's been run for a while and has come to full temperature, the windshield washer fluid becomes superheated (boiling?) and begins to weep out from the spray head and down the bonnet (leaving trails on the hot bonnet, of course). This begins to happen a few minutes after the car is switched off and continues until it's cold enough to stop.
If this happens to your car, post something like "me too" as a reply. I don't really want to turn it into a discussion thread.
I'm going to post this on the Mini2 site and try and get international input; please don't reply on both forums.
After the car's been run for a while and has come to full temperature, the windshield washer fluid becomes superheated (boiling?) and begins to weep out from the spray head and down the bonnet (leaving trails on the hot bonnet, of course). This begins to happen a few minutes after the car is switched off and continues until it's cold enough to stop.
If this happens to your car, post something like "me too" as a reply. I don't really want to turn it into a discussion thread.
I'm going to post this on the Mini2 site and try and get international input; please don't reply on both forums.
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My car has been getting very very warm under and on top of the bonnet. I'd like to get a statistical sampling of other owners that might be sharing this one problem that my R56 has.
After the car's been run for a while and has come to full temperature, the windshield washer fluid becomes superheated (boiling?) and begins to weep out from the spray head and down the bonnet (leaving trails on the hot bonnet, of course). This begins to happen a few minutes after the car is switched off and continues until it's cold enough to stop.
If this happens to your car, post something like "me too" as a reply. I don't really want to turn it into a discussion thread.
I'm going to post this on the Mini2 site and try and get international input; please don't reply on both forums.
After the car's been run for a while and has come to full temperature, the windshield washer fluid becomes superheated (boiling?) and begins to weep out from the spray head and down the bonnet (leaving trails on the hot bonnet, of course). This begins to happen a few minutes after the car is switched off and continues until it's cold enough to stop.
If this happens to your car, post something like "me too" as a reply. I don't really want to turn it into a discussion thread.
I'm going to post this on the Mini2 site and try and get international input; please don't reply on both forums.
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I think that if you covered the lines with some self-adhesive insulated barrier it would help alot.
#12
The dealership's official reply was that I did not actually see fluid squirting from the washer jets. That I only thought I saw it.
That, in fact, the lines on the bonnet were caused by residual cosmoline in the cracks around the jets that was liberated by rain.
Even though it hadn't rained. And I did see it squirting from the jets...
So asinine.
The folks upstairs at the dealer are better though and went to bat for me. Due to the various issues I've had with the car, they're swapping me into a new one.
That, in fact, the lines on the bonnet were caused by residual cosmoline in the cracks around the jets that was liberated by rain.
Even though it hadn't rained. And I did see it squirting from the jets...
So asinine.
The folks upstairs at the dealer are better though and went to bat for me. Due to the various issues I've had with the car, they're swapping me into a new one.
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