MerlintheMad
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As long as you do that you'll never come a cropper!
Aw, be a pal, take one for the team, get dirty (or lay down a towel), get under there, and take a pic. You can do it, if you will!
Poll to determine incidence of respraying the battery box
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Johnni
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I will check my plug today when I get home from work to see if its missing or if the area is spray paint over it.
Chucky
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Sorry to hear that happened; good thing it's in an area that doesn't really matter structurally or cosmetically. If I'm understanding correctly what happened you can avoid this on the curb in the picture by pulling forward farther into the street on the sloped portion and not turning until your back wheels have hit the street; that way your rear wheel's don't bounce down off the raised curb portion compressing the suspension and bottoming out the battery box. Of course you have to have enough room in the street to pull out that way.I know it's dented!? This thread started with that observation/revelation. The gutter I dropped into yesterday is formed a lot like this one, but more pronounced. So when both rear wheels dropped off the edge the suspension retracted and the battery box whacked the high part of the curb. Without the suspension drop, there is no chance of scraping. (I would never lower this car!) The same exact spot has been hit two or three times now. And now that I think back on it (and slept on it!), I have gone over this exact curb with a "scrunch!" once before; but probably not twice before, but that is possible. Months ago I may also have heard a slight contact with an acutely formed speed bump: again, if you don't go quickly over these, you risk smacking them as your suspension retracts. It's a case of being too careful/slow catching you! If you went slower yet, and eased down - without bouncing the suspension - that would work, to avoid dropping low enough to make contact. But of course, if anyone is behind you, they'll think you're parking the car.
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MerlintheMad
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Thanks.
I think what you are describing is exactly how I made the bottom out occur!? I carefully pulled straight into the street and both rear wheels dropped into the gutter at the same time. "Whack/Scrunch!" I reckon the only way to avoid this is to angle out over the gutter.
Jacques
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So, mine was on the lift this morning (1st oil change). Battery box appears to be intact...
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Jacques
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@Jacques Pristine, in fact! I have battery box envy.
You can thank the prevalence of rain (and unfortunately alot of flooding) we've had around here to keep that underside nice and clean.
Actually, this was the first time I've looked underneath the car since getting it.
MerlintheMad
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I guess I was too patient. Only today did I find out that the order I had placed was on hold because the shop I ordered through online cannot get the part from S. Korea. *sigh!* So, I have a cancelled order and a refund. Now, what to do next, to get this damned "drain plug"?
M'Kehyah
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^ Yeah, me too. If anyone gets one - please let us know that it is available again.
MerlintheMad
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You never posted a pic or said anything more than "mine is missing too". Is your box damaged? I.e. did you smack yours out on something, or did it just go missing without a trace?
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MerlintheMad
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I am repaired. Not the way I intended, but probably better.
Here's the plug I bought from the Kia service department. The OE plug is not available from anywhere that they looked. But this one (a single piece of injected soft plastic) appears to be intended to replace the OE part. Whatever. If anyone wants to try using it, here's the part number (it's three bucks):
Dave's Body Shop took me informally to their lift, and Kenny drove my car onto it and then a body man got inside the missing plug hole and straightened it out. The part I had just picked up at the Kia dealership was not that tight of a fit; I reckon to secure it would have required a generous amount of silicon glue. I was ready to do that. But Kenny said one of their standard (smaller) grommets would do the trick. And after that he had his shop guy spray the entire bottom of my box with corrosion resistant paint. Voila!
They didn't even write up a service order. I tipped the tool man twenty bucks:
(This is "death row"; they haven't decided if they are repairing the Mustang or not.
)
Here's the plug I bought from the Kia service department. The OE plug is not available from anywhere that they looked. But this one (a single piece of injected soft plastic) appears to be intended to replace the OE part. Whatever. If anyone wants to try using it, here's the part number (it's three bucks):
Dave's Body Shop took me informally to their lift, and Kenny drove my car onto it and then a body man got inside the missing plug hole and straightened it out. The part I had just picked up at the Kia dealership was not that tight of a fit; I reckon to secure it would have required a generous amount of silicon glue. I was ready to do that. But Kenny said one of their standard (smaller) grommets would do the trick. And after that he had his shop guy spray the entire bottom of my box with corrosion resistant paint. Voila!
They didn't even write up a service order. I tipped the tool man twenty bucks: (This is "death row"; they haven't decided if they are repairing the Mustang or not.
)
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