Gerry, I'm pretty much convinced my bugs didn't come through the heater
inlet. I have just taken a look at the top of the heater box (2011 +4)
and it's fitted with a fine piece of black mesh-foam, for want of a
better description, that I reckon no insect could have penetrated and
showing no evidence of trapped bugs. My bet is still on ingress over the
top of the screen. The catalogue of deceased fauna trapped included
bees, butterflies, moths, beetles and lord knows what else; the
specimens that got through were the smaller ones, like mosquitoes.
Gerald
*
*
On 19/07/2012 21:47, Gerald Wallace wrote:
*/Gerald, I too had the hood up, mainly to stop anything flying out of
the car in the slipstream. Although I was travelling solo, I'd filled
most of the passenger footwell and parcel shelf with stuff necessary
for the trip- I also had my Boot-Bag strapped to the carrier
containing my clothes etc. Although the weather could have been
better, I didn't seem to encounter that much rain whilst I was
driving- I haven't taken the hood down so I've yet to see how many
bugs are accumulated there./*
*/Regards, Gerry.
/*
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Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Heater inlet screen
From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:53:24 +0100
To: [email protected]
Gerry -
I'm interested to read of your experience as I too, in France around
the Le Mans Classic weekend, experienced an influx of dead insects
that covered my co-driver and me like a load of crumbs. In our case it
happened only when the hood was on and it was raining. Our impression
was that the insects were dying on impact with the windscreen, then
being washed by the rain (there was a lot) through the screen/ hood
gap. This was borne out by the large quantity of dead bugs we later
found lodged under the front edge of the hood, as though in the queue
to be washed on to our shirts...
Any other explanations of the dead bug phenomenon?
Gerald
Gerald Simonds
On 19 Jul 2012, at 20:27, Gerald Wallace <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
*/During my recent tour through France I became aware of a number
of dead insects landing up on my lap. I checked the heater inlet
and found the open mesh 'filter' to be a bit damaged. I'm trying
to think of some suitable and readily available substitute for the
original- maybe a bit of nylon stocking. Any other ideas? It needs
to be fine enough to stop said insects, but not too restrictive to
the airflow./*
*/Gerry
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