Car overheating

[tulips]

Bit of an odd one this one. More gardening than cars! My neighbour claims his car is overheating because of the leaves from my tree getting into the air filter. I think he's taking the ****, but don't know enough about cars to say whether he is or not. Is he, or could he have a point?

 

[oldhenry]

Tosh, blocked air filter would stop it running at all.
Leaves tend to get into vents for heater jsut clear them out.Tell him to move to a 20th floor flat.
Trees are part of nature, cars aren't so he must adapt to nature.
Trees absorp Co2- he gives it out
Trees give fruit which you can eat
Trees encourage wildlife to make ecology sound
There many more reasons why trees are better than car owners

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Sounds like he knows less about cars than you do!

 

[breezer]

get one of them new fangled skodas, they are made from cake, delicious

 

[tulips]

Thank you all. I will look forward to telling him the good news.

 

[tulips]

Having looked into it a bit more, I suspect he is talking about the leaves blocking his radiator rather than getting into the air filter. It looks like that is quite a common reason for cars overheating. Wouldn't that be more likely to occur when you are actually driving, rather than just parking under a tree?

 

[Ron Gamma]

sounds more like he wants you to cut your tree down. Get a tree preservation order on it before he slaps a management order on you.

i have a neighbour with OCD who sweeps his garden twice daily (and uses his hosepipe during bans). I just love it when the squirrels throw hazelnut shells into his garden from the nearby trees. I have planted more hazels .

tell him to maintain/clean his vehicle properly and mother nature will not be a problem.

 

[tulips]

I'm sure he'd love me to cut the tree down. I'm just making sure I have an answer to all of his complaints, and the car overheating was one of the more dubious of these.

Thanks for your help.