So, the missus has somehow managed to drop / lose / launch her engagement down the bloody air vent on the dashboard that does the windscreen. Has anyone got any advice on how to find the ring and then how to get it out??? I've just ordered a snake camera to be delivered, so hopefully that "might" help find it. I'm hearing that accessing the heater core might be a good bet as it may have fallen down through the vents / pipes.
Any help / advice will be appreciated, please keep all sarcastic non productive comments to a minimum, at least wait til I get the ring back

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OK game on try this maybe.

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Welcome to the forum !

I recently did a heater core on swimbo's FL1 and it was a very lengthy job but nothing too dramatic - Trim out, airbags out, wheel off, dash out etc.

Took a day but an hour of that was the core swap. I was lucky as it is covered in the FL1 Haynes manual and on YouTube.

I suspect that it is doable on the FL2 by a diyer.

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Get a leaf blower or air line and close all vents except 2, blow into one and ring may blow out of the one its in, depends how far it has fallen

given the possible values at stake here, just ask insurance company, not sure if ring counts as lost in this case, but there may be cover. cheaper for them to get your car professionally dismantled then to replace the ring. Worth a call at least. At work
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Wow!
Plenty of help and ideas, once I can be bothered to venture out into the cold today I'll have a quick look and poke around to see if it's near the top, if not then I think it'll be case of claiming for a lost ring as I'm not looking forward to the idea of removing the dashboard.
I like the idea of using a leaf blower though, especially as I haven't got one yet, so gives me an excuse to buy one 😀💍🌬🌪

I'd wait to see if the snake camera can locate it. Then add a blob of blu tac and retrieve it that way. Another option is to place a stethoscope at various locations on the heating pipework and tap with something, unless the ring is wedged solid (unlikely) it should rattle against the ducting enough to give a good idea as to which bit to dismantle. I got a mechanics stethoscope off of eBay for a couple of quid, very useful for diagnosing grumbly bearings etc. FL2 Metropolis, Loire Blue, ebony/ivory

On a previous car (not an F2) I had an annoying rattle coming from the heating/vent system and whenever I turned sharply I also got a scraping noise. After a lot of faffing and poking around with bits of wire and blue tac I located a £1 coin and managed to get it to a position where I could just grasp it and extract it with some specialist surgical tweezers. Yippee! not only had I cured the rattle and scraping noise but I was £1 richer. But when I went to pick up the tweezers I fumbled them and they fell into the heating/vent system and defied all attempts to retrieve them. The result; another rattle and scraping noise and a bill for £15 to replace the tweezers.

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chicken george wrote:

given the possible values at stake here,

I hope your not a real surgeon, now wonder the NHS is skint if you keep leaving your expensive tweezers inside your work At work
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My Mrs lost her wedding ring, not much more than a plain band style with 4ish tiny diamonds, the insurance co sent a cheque for 2.5 times what we paid.
seemed fantastic until we went back to the jewellers and discovered the price of gold etc had risen by approx 3X

then she took the chance to upgrade, so ended up forking out other 300 , despite my arguments that if Im paying more I should get an upgraded wife At work
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Skaff wrote:

Wow!

I like the idea of using a leaf blower though, especially as I haven't got one yet, so gives me an excuse to buy one 😀💍🌬🌪

Put blower at one end & to increase air flow put a vacuum at one of the outlets but not with an old bag! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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the 'old bag' can hold the vacuum if she wants her ring back  At work
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