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Re: Fluid line under driver door sill plate Posted by Saana88 [Email]  (#207)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Saana88) on Wed, 2 May 2007 19:37:41
In Reply to: Re: Fluid line under driver door sill plate, Landjet  [Profile/Gallery]
, Tue, 1 May 2007 20:45:20
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Saab thermoplastic floor trays are worth their weight in gold. Too bad they don't weigh much. Sometime after it rains, you may want to pull off the sill plate and reach underneath to check for accumulating moisture.
On the plus side, my (other Swedish carmaker, brick-shaped studies in automotive safety) cars would always have issues with the brake lines. They chose a brass-nickel alloy. Saab used a copper-zinc alloy (hence the green color). Changing a caliper on the bricks would almost always rip up one or more of the brake lines. So far, on my (starting to rust a bit at 217k) '88 900, I have yet to snap off a brake fluid fitting, including the master cylinder lines waaay back at 175k. Keep the moisture off of that one and you should be fine. Also, keep the rubber-and-foam insulating mat (between the carpet and the floorpan) underneath that brake fluid line. If you are accumulating water in there, or if you accidentally do in the future, the open-celled foam will hold any moisture that's available. If you put it under that line (with the thick rubber between the moist foam and the metal line) it will dry out a whole lot quicker and the line will corrode less. When reinstalling the carpet in my convertible, I was picky about this. There's another reason that line is where it is- low moisture exposure. The bottom edge of the carpet is impervious plastic for a reason, too.
Was someone thinking when they designed these cars or what?
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