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Old 11-22-2008, 11:04 PM   #51 (permalink)
FastPlastic
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So I was going to put on the weather stripping I picked up the other day. But turns out it decided to snow today. So I decided to take this opportunity to do a little test. When I was cleaning off my car I stuffed as much snow as possible in to the cracks around the hood. After my 4.5mile trip a large circle had melted on the center of the hood. And the cracks across the front and passenger side of the hood. The drivers side had only started to melt. 15min later I went out and checked it again and all of the cracks were clean and the hood had melted completely. I also noticed you could still feel a small amount of heat coming out of the cracks even on the driver side.

I'm going to try again tomorrow to put the weather stripping in. Can't wait to see the difference.

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