Holes to drain water from roof/hood?flooded..maybe seal?
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did'nt have connection those 2 days.
THANK YOU A MILLION for the photos !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It's raining and still did'nt sort,now gonna look at your pics carefully.
It's to remove the inner parts ,and tubes are far from sunroof
that's why did'nt find them Oo ,
will have to bring to tech to do it i'm afraid dont have garage and weather is terrible.Man , how much i would offer of drinks for that kindness ^^
Big Hug ,
Alex
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Happy you're happy with photographs :)
Please…. before you remove anything, use a coloured liquid like very dilluted white water-based paint and pour on car where rain water would collect,
1.Around sunroof panel (electric roof seal) roof closed.
Then open roof fully and squirt liquid into tray at the four corners.2.Into the two roof gutters where it meets the windscreen glass.
3.around the windscreen seal.
4.Around the door top seal.
Do the above 1-4, one at a time, check inside the car for coloured liquid after each test.
You can do these tests yourself before you give to 'tech' and waste your currency. :(
:cheers: kev b.
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1 tech :"i dont do roofs, if i do i change everything i meet for safety"
2 tech well , it will be 400 upwards (at the phone wothout to see the car)So .. desoerate and thanks to your suggestion ,on my launch pause (and the only sunny day ) i removed the front plastic arch splash guard .
Found the tube ! after removing another screw , putted a" laundry cable "
(metal inside , plastic wrapped) and then on the way til the roof , 3 times .Yesterday it was heavy raining , and i did check twice , and also today.
No "big water" whatsoever , just a bit of moisture on the roof ,
but on the side and back ,
not frontally flooded like it was.
Let's cross finger .
Thanks for the tips , they give me the "strenght" to do at least tht alone ^^
-_______________________________-Next would be to do similarly on remaining tubes , but i have to figure out
How to access Rear tubes from Below the Car.
..when it will stop to be so WINDY weather !! (here we are 160 kh wind today Oo ).
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1 tech :"i dont do roofs, if i do i change everything i meet for safety"
2 tech well , it will be 400 upwards (at the phone wothout to see the car)So .. desoerate and thanks to your suggestion ,on my launch pause (and the only sunny day ) i removed the front plastic arch splash guard .
Found the tube ! after removing another screw , putted a" laundry cable "
(metal inside , plastic wrapped) and then on the way til the roof , 3 times .Yesterday it was heavy raining , and i did check twice , and also today.
No "big water" whatsoever , just a bit of moisture on the roof ,
but on the side and back ,
not frontally flooded like it was.
Let's cross finger .
Thanks for the tips , they give me the "strenght" to do at least tht alone ^^
-_______________________________-Next would be to do similarly on remaining tubes , but i have to figure out
How to access Rear tubes from Below the Car.
..when it will stop to be so WINDY weather !! (here we are 160 kh wind today Oo ).
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Happy you found location of one front drain tube! :)
The rear ones are behind the rear wheels, under the bumper/fender,
You can either remove rear bumper (big job :( )
Or you can remove boot/trunk plastics (even bigger job :( :( ), when these are removed there is an access hole in bodywork each side, that leads to the stale air vents and in the same place you will see the rear drain tubes exiting the bodywork, you can pull these into car and use your laundry cable again, without removing rear bumper/fender? :D
Another idea, check for gaps in the windscreen gasket/seal trim surround? and where the outside roof gutters meet the windscreen gasket/seal? :shock:
Fingers crossed kev b.
PS; are there many MX3's in Triest, Italy? :o
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Well last big rain , did'nt get wet forward ( just laterally a bit and also on rear roof headlining i sensed a bit ) so i think seal of windscreen is ok.
The rear drain stuff looks difficult , cannot do on street like i did with forward ones as you tell me.
I have to research a bit the english terms to get it correctly("stale" air vents),
And then plastics in the floor , or angles of the boot .Useful to know anyway.________________________-
How many In triest? now we are 2 ( we were 5 til 2 years ago , 1 sold for "foreign exporation" , 2 had accident) .
One red , owner is a blondie who i know does/did some " escort " kind of job and mine (black) .
Due to stupid italian law i had to let go a Mx3 with only 60.000 km
(wanted to keep for spares but you cant here ,you have to "hide it "somewhere and it's anyway not law allowed )
Forgot to mention =
my car has motorized automatic belts.
Really cool , but findingparts in the case should be painful i think
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alexlotta:
Your MX3 has the American \ Canadian style seat belts.
This is the link to the American OC with lots of Canadian members.
http://www.mx-3.com/phpBB3/index.php
Be easy to find parts on there for it.
If you want a quick way of clearing the rear sunroof drain pipes, use a stiff cable, like RF (TV) or RJ45 (Computer network) and feed it down.
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thanks lory !, in fact using laundry cable was quite the same approach ( and i did look at antenna cable as you see on my posts , just did'nt find one hanging around in my house).
Rear tubes are more difficult to reach than front ones
(front tube =just remove mudguard/mudflap behind front tyres , and you reach them easily) .
Good tip nevertheless , useful for future reference for other people.Going to check canadian forum , though is always better find parts in Europe (customs stuff and long pricy shippings)
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Hi ya alexlotta.
Well after the 'Last big rain'!! If the rear of headlining is wet then there is a good chance its the rear sunroof draintube that side?Did you park the car in a different direction, angle?
The boot/trunk plastics are fairly easy to remove, just take your time and if things can not be removed easily, then there is probably 'one more' screw to be removed!!!
More pics to help?
This is what you should see?…... look towards the white 'grid' shaped object (stale air vents).... these just let out 'bad', 'damp', 'smelly', air from the car interior, and make the last door to be closed easier to shut, by releasing air pressure.
Pull this tube into the car and use your laundry cable once more, perhaps over a bucket in case you clear the blockage? :shock:
Once you have finished make sure you replace the tube back into the grommet in the outer bodywork.The other side is the same, it's just a different shaped hole in the inner metalwork.
Hope this helps? :D
kev b.
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Bro you are magic , gonna save pics and study them .
I parked the car with front slightly up ( on a "walkable"step ) ,but not so much ,enough to use the screwdriver (lol my setup is too low frontly) .
But when i tried water it went out .
EDIT:t looks like rear tube are reachable without to remove anything!! , can be?EDIT2:they are not (only left rear and curves too steep)
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