Date:         Sun, 23 Jan 2005 05:06:16 -0700
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Beware- plastic is like glass in these subzero temps...
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I could show you an older subaru with a gap almost a half inch across if I
still had it.  Was my sons subie here in colorado.  Temps here in january
are an absolute mystery to any weather forecaster.  We went from a sixty
degree day to a below zero temp in about 10 hours that year.  When he went
out in the morning he couldnąt believe his eyes. It was about a quarter inch
across  but grew to about a half inch over the next couple days.  That dash
was a hardened plastic with a softer material on top.  Took both layers out.

If you look at most better dashes today, you donąt see the types of plastics
used back then.  The combination of years of UV eating at them and then the
temp changes can reek havoc with any plastic after a while.

Of course when in okinawa I didnąt have those problems.  We had the "cancer"
to deal with in those climates.  Sit on the front steps and watch your
vehicle turn to iron oxide.
jimt
> 
> GERMAN plastic does. Anyone had this happen with a Japanese car? I
> doubt it would.
> 
> Luckily for all youse cold-weather Vanagonites, these vans don't have
> soft-plastic dashes...
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin
> New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
> 
> HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE
> 
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