Rice in vents - help!

fRostiE · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:51

Looking for some advice here please guys:

I got married a few weeks ago and in keeping with tradition my car was set upon by various family members who put confetti, toilet paper and rice all over the interior, in every single crevice and cubby hole and shaving foam on the glass (none on the paint fortunately as I'd not have been too happy about that!)

i cleared out the car once i got home and gave it a good wash and hoover... but some rice found its way into the vents and remains there... every time i go around a roundabout with any speed i hear it sliding around and when i turn the fans on full blast to clear the screen the same thing happens as it all jumps about inside.

The car isn't anything fancy - Civic EP2... but the angle of the windscreen makes it impossible to get a hoover nozzle to the front vents.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions, as the last thing i want is the rice to take on moisture in the coming months and stick / clog the system, or got mouldy and stink out the car for ever more. I need to try and shift it whilst its still dry.

Any ideas as to what i could do?

Participant · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:54

- Get a wire coathangar, unravel it.
- Put duct tape over one end with the sticky side facing outwards.
- Take a fast corner then stop somewhere so all the rice is on one side.
- Shove coathangar into vent, try and get rice grains to attach to sticky tape.
- Fling poo at relatives' living room windows.

JRS · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:55

fRostiE said:
Any ideas as to what i could do?

Beat the family members involved with sticks until they pay to have it sorted?

Six6siX · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:55

Ricer

Firestar_3x · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:56

I'd take a bendy straw, tape it (seal it to) the vac nozzel and suck away.

Participant · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:56

Firestar_3x said:
I'd take a bendy straw, tape it (seal it to) the vac nozzel and suck away.

^ That's a good one.

arknor · 26 Sep 2011 at 12:58

mod your hoover with a peice of flexible pipe and suck it up.....

you could probably use a plastic bottle as a reducer

Hades · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:22

Pour water down the vents and see if it grows?

shine · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:25

Leave it there - winter is coming it'll reduce the amount of moisture in the car!

Vonhelmet · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:31

Kill your relatives.

My brother was really put out when I told him not to shaving foam our car, that my parents had kindly given us, on our wedding day.

Hades · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:50

Tip some metal ball bearings down there to drown out the noise of the rice?

mrk · 26 Sep 2011 at 13:51

What the hell kind of tradition is this.

Nobody should mess with another man's car in this fashion.

chaparral · 26 Sep 2011 at 14:22

fRostiE said:
Any ideas as to what i could do?

This may work

But only if the tube is thin enough to fit down through the air vents !!!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32mm-SPEC...Vacuum_Cleaner_Bags_Parts&hash=item19c17c4819

Westyfield2 · 26 Sep 2011 at 14:23

Six6siX said:
Ricer

arknor · 26 Sep 2011 at 14:31

chaparral said:
This may work
But only if the tube is thin enough to fit down through the air vents !!!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32mm-SPEC...Vacuum_Cleaner_Bags_Parts&hash=item19c17c4819

as i said you can do that with flexible tubing like a garden house and use a cut in half bottle as a reducer with the hose attacked to the lid end..

no need to buy things for that purpose which is basicly the exact same thing anyway

ins0mn1ac · 26 Sep 2011 at 15:02

That's me never getting married then, I refuse to spend my life trying to get rice out of the vents!!

fRostiE · 26 Sep 2011 at 15:11

Thanks guys, seems obvious now that I think about it. I'll find the nearest roundabout to my house and crawl home afterwards, then hoover it off the passenger side vent - in theory!

semi-pro waster · 26 Sep 2011 at 15:17

I've learned something new today, I had no idea that this was traditional to do to cars in some places. I've heard of brides/grooms getting blackened as part of hen/stag parties but never this.

fRostiE · 26 Sep 2011 at 15:30

You've never seen it where cars get tin cans attached to the back and 'Just Married' put on the rear window? It was that, just a bit more full on... they did try and do something which didn't last, but the rice slid off the plastic dashboard down into the front vent.

Vonhelmet · 26 Sep 2011 at 16:34

fRostiE said:
Thanks guys, seems obvious now that I think about it. I'll find the nearest roundabout to my house and crawl home afterwards, then hoover it off the passenger side vent - in theory!

frRostiE said:
Yes, officer, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation why I was doing donuts round that mini roundabout at 60mph.