This material may be what I have heard referred to in this country as
"English Undercoating". If this is the case, the solution is to drive =
the
cars more, thereby distributing the undercoating evenly over the whole
underside of the car. Any sports car that sits still long enough to ne=
ed a
drip pan needs to be used more. Stop that "TLC" and drive them hard! =
Now!
Incidentally, my sports car whose name starts with a P drips the same
material, but at the back where it doesn't even provide undercoating!
Jeff Moorse
Hurst, Texas
"T" Spitfire 1500
"P" 914
owner-spitfires@autox.team.net on 10/08/98 10:13:53 AM
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Subject: Cleaning up after the 'dog'
Friends
I've just spent a most entertaining morning. Things at HMC are a bit on=
the
quiet front
- kids back at school, all the holiday money spent and people nursing t=
heir
credit cards
prior to using them in earnest for Christmas.
Because of this 'silence' I've been doing a bit of essential cleaning,
maintenance and
looking at drip trays underneath an number of cars whose identity does =
not
need to be revealed.
I'll give you a clue - their make name begins with a T, though there ar=
e
some others doing the
same thing whose names begin with an M.
To my absolute amazement, most of them had quite a lot of oil in the tr=
ays
and I can't
understand why this should be. They never did this when they were new, =
so
why have they
decided to do it now? I give them lots of TLC and the only reward I see=
m to
be getting from
them is a whole lot of dirty black smelly stuff. Why is this and what
should I do to stop it
happening in future?
John Mac
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