As part of my Explore the Mondeo exercise.
I have removed an oily and dirty under tray.
It was oily cos of a power steering fluid cooler leaking
It had accumulated dirt in eack of the corners near the wings because water gets trapped there.
I have drilled a small hole in each side so the water can drain out and hopefully the dirt particles with it.
There was also the remnants of a strip of foam a bit like draught excluder sort of still attached. Plus one of I guess two small blocks of foam.
Assuming this foam has a purpose can anyone update me on their proper position and function.
I was a little concerned at a 13 Jul posting by Galaxy
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>>Unecessary rubber strip on plasic undershield which absorbs water then rots the air conditioning condenser and stops the aircon working.
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Galaxy. Can you tell me more?
Thanks
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henry k,
Sorry but I'm not exactly sure what more you want to know.
It sounds as if you have already found the rubber strip that I referred to in my earlier post. Unless I'm very much mistaken this is actually meant to be all in one piece. However, since it bends quite sharply at either end to fit the undertray I expect these ends have actually broken off, hence you find what appear to be separate pieces. I think it's all meant to be in one. On my own car this strip has completely rotted away, caused by what has leaked out of the air condenser in the way of dye, etc.
I am currently unsure whether this rubber strip serves any useful purpose or not. I suppose it just could form a sort of air-dam to force more air through the radiator and condenser, though my own car has now been running without this strip for several weeks now without any apparent problems.
The original comment about the air condenser rotting in this way came from a post by Dave N, who is one of the well informed air conditioning people who often appear on this forum. If you try doing a "Forum Search" I'm quite sure you will find his original post, and the others related to it. His suggestion was to give the bottom of the condenser a good coating of Waxoyl, which is probably very sound advice.
Out of interest you might like to have a look on Ebay to see how many of these condensers are currently being offered for sale. That, to me, is a measure of how great this problem really is. Do a search for something like "Ford Air Conditioning" and see what I mean!
I hope this will help you. If you want any further information then please post again,
Good Luck,
Galaxy
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