Few general questions. Kinda long...sorry.

[UnWoRtHy]

I've already posted a few questions about my Talon, and I'd really like to thank everyone for their advice. Everyone here seems extremely knowledgable, and I have a feeling that over time I'm going to learn a lot. Also, it's really nice to find a place like this that's serious about speed. Not just slapping on an intake, a fartcan and some yellow stickers on a Civic and saying that you're ready to take on everything out there. Anyway...that out of the way, here's a few more general questions.

I live in New England, and as I'm sure anyone like me who has a 2G Talon or Eclipse in an area that gets really cold, snowy winters can attest, doors sticking is a bastard of a problem. I was fifteen minutes late for work one day because my doors were frozen shut. I had to sit there with a blowdryer in 5 degree weather trying to unthaw things enough to open them. Is there ANYTHING you can do to the door seal to prevent them from freezing up so hard? Someone around here suggested spraying Pam cooking spray on a rag and rubbing it over the seal, but I don't want any nasty oil residue on my windows. Any suggestions?

Another weather related issue. Whenever it rains, my car gets that EMBARRASSING squeaky belt sound at idle. It shuts up at higher RPM's, but as soon as you pull up to a stoplight, or into a parking spot, it starts up again. I'm assuming that the belt somehow gets wet, since it only happens when it rains. At first I thought that it was a tensioner problem, so I brought it to my mechanic who checked it out for free (really cool guys down there) and said that everything was tensed up well, and the only problem was a faint amount of glazing on the belt, which he removed with some fine grit sandpaper. It's a brand new belt, though! Anyone know of a different brand of belt that's engineered to be quieter, or ever experience the same problem?

And this'll be the last one for this post, I promise. I don't know when it happened, or why it happened, but a couple months ago, my windshield fluid sprayers don't spray like they used to. Whenever I go to wash the windshield now, they spray out fluid like they should for the first second or two...then they just kinda weakly piss out fluid onto the bottom of the windshield where it does absolutely no good, especially at any kind of speed, which sucks HARDCORE this time of year when there's a lot of grime and stuff being kicked up off the road. Could it be a bad pump? Or could the sprayers themselves be clogged? Is there any way to tell, and any way to fix it in either case?

Sorry for the novel, but thanks for any advice. I'll learn something yet.

 

[1badtsi]

as for the doors, you can spray the weather stripping with some wd-40 before you lock it up for the night and it will open right up in the morning

 

[DSMfânâtic]

I second the door sticking advice. As for the squealing...what DSM doesn't squeal like that? Mine does it. But it's only when the defroster is on and the engine is cold. If you had your belts checked already try some belt dressing or even use the same WD-40 that you are going to use for the doors. The windsheilld pissers sound like they might be clogged. Try shooting some compressed air into them or if that doesnt work you could take them off and try cleaning them. And if they still don't work....I guess you'll have to buy those stupid, light up, ricey ones

Good Luck

 

[irjoshy]

i had a pisser problem myself not to long ago.. then i investigated the problem and found that something was binding up the hose....

the spare tire had ended up squishing the hose for the pissers.... the little motor that pushes the piss through your car is in the hatch.. check that out..

oh yeah and the tubes that lead up to the pissers in the hood have little valves on the ends that have springs in them that could go bad.. i just took mine out and they work great..