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Honda CRV '06.
I can't clear them
I have pushed curtain wire down the 2 tubes from the sunroof gutter. They stop dead after about 4 ft, level with where the front winker repeater lights are.
I've loosened the plastic wheelarch liner and felt up to the repeater, but can't feel the end of the tube.
Honda say it "should be there" It goes down the A pillar, they say, then to a one-way valve of some kind which is supposed to stop mud and insects getting to it.
I have tried throttle (bowden) cable, in a cordless drill, and also curtain wire with the end worked to be a corkscrew. Nothing gets attached to the metal.
I have been told people use air pressure, and also been warned against using it. If the rubber tube comes off, back at the sunroof gutter, water goes into the head lining - a disaster for the car!
Does anyone know what might be causing such an obstinate block??
The curtain wire:
I can't clear them
I have pushed curtain wire down the 2 tubes from the sunroof gutter. They stop dead after about 4 ft, level with where the front winker repeater lights are.
I've loosened the plastic wheelarch liner and felt up to the repeater, but can't feel the end of the tube.
Honda say it "should be there" It goes down the A pillar, they say, then to a one-way valve of some kind which is supposed to stop mud and insects getting to it.
I have tried throttle (bowden) cable, in a cordless drill, and also curtain wire with the end worked to be a corkscrew. Nothing gets attached to the metal.
I have been told people use air pressure, and also been warned against using it. If the rubber tube comes off, back at the sunroof gutter, water goes into the head lining - a disaster for the car!
Does anyone know what might be causing such an obstinate block??
The curtain wire: