General smelly punto

[hxsimon]

hi all, do punto's have air filters for the front window heater/blowers.

my P reg punto's heater STINKS, it smells damp and this morning was realy bad, when it warmed enough to blow on the windows it blew steam out for a while.

so filter or something more drastic???

cheers all

simon

 

[tambo]

summit sounds fishy here

 

[01goddak]

its called a pollen filter .. just pop to your local auto factors and get a new one shouldn't be too much at all! defo less than a tenner

 

[Mdeko]

Is the passenger footwell wet or damp?./ . . check your coolant level - is it dropping over time?

Could be a leaky heater matrix.

 

[smokeyjoe03]

sorry but my pet hate is people who instantly say heater matrix.....no offence mdeko, it could be that.

However one the mk1 punto the drainage pipes uder the windscreen wipers get clogged and the rainwater doesn't drain. This goes stagnant, stinks and causes the window to steam up.

Simple to fix, just unbolt the piece of black plastic trim that covers the window wipers, if you look down there will be two holes, open the bonnet and at the back will be two short pipes at the very back, about 2 inches wide and about 4 inches long.

Just squeeze them to let the rubbish out, you might want to wear some gloves as it can be nasty stuff.

 

[Rich_65402]

sorry but my pet hate is people who instantly say heater matrix.....no offence mdeko, it could be that.

However one the mk1 punto the drainage pipes uder the windscreen wipers get clogged and the rainwater doesn't drain. This goes stagnant, stinks and causes the window to steam up.

Simple to fix, just unbolt the piece of black plastic trim that covers the window wipers, if you look down there will be two holes, open the bonnet and at the back will be two short pipes at the very back, about 2 inches wide and about 4 inches long.

Just squeeze them to let the rubbish out, you might want to wear some gloves as it can be nasty stuff.

bang on Joe, my mark 1 did that...

 

[dave]

bang on Joe, my mark 1 did that...

did it blow steam out though?

i reckon its matrix too

 

[smokeyjoe03]

did it blow steam out though?

i reckon its matrix too

Mine did, didn't exactly blow steam but instead of demisting the windows it misted them up, I interprted "blowing steam" as "misting up window"