ralton wrote:

you gotta love these defenders! - i opened my passenger window a little to let in some air to demist the windscreen, while driving in the rain. BUT, the "pull" of the air through my door means that i get rather wet! (i can see the road through the closed door). absolutely wonderful!

haha, wouldn't be a Defender otherwise boet!

alantd wrote:

I think there was a technical bulletin on this.

The fix is pretty simple. Wear a coat

i finally diagnosed where all the water in my passenger footwell was coming from: it's the drain hole in the heater vent getting blocked. There's a little 'sump' in the intake duct that leads to the drain. It's supposed to prevent water passing into the blower. The rubber seal in the drain gets clogged and the pool builds up until it flows through the heater and out of the interior intake by the passenger's feet.

Might add one of those horrendously expensive (and too pretty IMHO) KBX vent scoppy-things to prevent water collecting in the first place.

thanks for the tip Alan,ours was blocked too  2.4 90 XS
1968 1/32 scale Britains 109 Pick up.

warren wrote:

Tell you what I'm still fascinated by driving in the rain... The way the raindrops keep running round the front windows in a clockwise direction (anti-clockwise on the passenger side) when your going above 50-ish... Never worked out why they do that!

on the inside or outside of the windows?  www.ralton.co.za

warren wrote:

Tell you what I'm still fascinated by driving in the rain... The way the raindrops keep running round the front windows in a clockwise direction (anti-clockwise on the passenger side) when your going above 50-ish... Never worked out why they do that!

it's the nutation of the earth,only seems to affect RHD LR's  2.4 90 XS
1968 1/32 scale Britains 109 Pick up.