Re: Strange Cardboard Stuff by Radiator

[Jean-Claude Desinor <desinor@ibm.net>]

** Reply to note from drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:51:20 -0400 (EDT)

  I would not remove it! Even in TO.

  By the way, when I lived in TO, I used Conti Contacts in the winter. I believe all season tires are for California in
August :-)

  Anyways, those winter tires helped me in those few occasions where TO closed because of a few centimeters of snow. And when
the regular sprinkling of snow melted in the sun then the water froze, I could still drive around the fender benders.

> This is because one of the mounting clips for the baffle has come off, allowing air to push the baffle flat against the rad. They're
> supposed to be mounted perpendicular to the rad, at the outer edges. Remove it alltogether - not having any baffle at all is better
> than having part of your rad blocked off. If you have a properly functioning thermostat and heater system, there's no need for any
> rad covers with the kind of winter temps seen in the TO area.
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Oliver H Huls wrote:
> > My cardboard actually covers one third of my rad.  I thought this was for cold
> > weather climates to keep cold air out.
> > Am I way out?
> > Do I remove it since it is covering a good chunk of my rad.
> > Are we talking about the same stuff?
> > Oliver. Toronto.
> > 88 Scirocco Slegato.



        Jean-Claude
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