Looking for a set of front bumper bolt covers, the 'vented' style, anyone able to help ?
cheers,
Kevin.

kevGLT wrote:Looking for a set of front bumper bolt covers, the 'vented' style, anyone able to help ?
cheers,
Kevin.

The vented ones were only on vario's if i recall correctly. Quite hard to get nowadays...

I'm not sure I even know what is being talked about off the top of my head.

Pics needed to jog my memory.

Vented bumper bolt covers. As standard fitted to all rubber banded cars.

Thanks Chris, being primarily an earlier car man I was thrown by the mention of bolts and covers (4 plastic oval things on a MY81-85)

I've got some of those vents as pictured

Thanks for the photo,Chris, thats the 'vents' I am looking for, anyone have a set for sale ?
Cheers,
Kevin.

Me probably

I know this is off topic but ... these were originally designed to fan air down to the vario belts AFAIK.

Doesn't this invite rust? If the blanking plates are replaced with the vents, doesn't that mean all sorts of gunk gets in to the channels under the car, which are kept nice and damp due to the rain being forced in there all the time?

Cheers

Tom

I think the opposite Tom.

Having seen the rust on 40+ year old DAFs, those channels stay in good shape. The through flow I guess keeps them dry.

The reason I put them on mine was to increase the airflow, try to keep them dried out. No idea if it works, but stuck with it!

OK, convinced

Tom

It's like a car rotting away in a damp garage or staying nice under a drafty car port

Actually ... perhaps I'm not convinced after all

I agree that the worst thing you could do to a vario would be to fit the "standard" blanks. A lifetime of gunk gets no more airation, and the channels start rusting.

But on a car where the vents have been blanked up until now? There won't be enough grime in those channels to cause a problem. If you fit those vents, you add air true, but also a whole load of extra gunk gets in.

Tom