Door jamb query, What is that hole for? Options

[TonyH]

Good afternoon everyone,

I question if I may. I have just been watching Ian Karr's new video on Youtube on his 914/6 project and it reminded me to ask you good people a question.

Just above the door lock in the door jamb there is a hole/tube, what is that for? It appears to go up into the sail but not into the engine bay.

I have just had a look at my car, shined a torch into the entry hole but there is no light to be seen.

Enjoy your Sunday afternoon. - Tony

[chmillman]

Mine is a Euro car (originally delivered in France), no plastic covers - but who knows if that is original or not.

[wonkipop]

Mine is a Euro car (originally delivered in France), no plastic covers - but who knows if that is original or not.

what model year?

[chmillman]

Mine is a Euro car (originally delivered in France), no plastic covers - but who knows if that is original or not.

what model year?

74

[mepstein]

Mine is a Euro car (originally delivered in France), no plastic covers - but who knows if that is original or not.

what model year?

74

The plastic vents just pop in and out. If you like them, use them. If not, no harm, no foul.

[wonkipop]

Mine is a Euro car (originally delivered in France), no plastic covers - but who knows if that is original or not.

what model year?

74

The plastic vents just pop in and out. If you like them, use them. If not, no harm, no foul.

thats for sure. look good either in or out.
and given that by and large most surviving cars have had a repaint at this point in time,
they probably got taken out for repaints and either put back in or got lost and were not reinstalled.

i was just curious about which cars got them and which did not.
have found a few interesting differences between the 74s re ROW spec and USA spec that might indicate the general rule on the vent covers might not be so simple as early did not have and late cars did.

i just went and looked into spare parts catalogue.





if i am reading this right it seems to be saying that all the 6s were fitted with the vent covers from the start, but not the 4s.

then in 72 MY they were fitted to the 4s.

these are two 1970 6s that have been for sale on BAT that were fairly original condition.
but i think both have had external repaints.




seems like the 6s might have always been fitted with them.
the 4 might have been subject to bean counters keeping its price down. a penny here and a penny there? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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the same documents imply the euro cars (ie 1.8V is definitely the euro spec 74 1.8, v = carburretors) got the vent covers.

so........im not sure.
but that museum 1.8 is not a repaint or restored car according to the museum director.
also in delving into 1.8s for the L jet research we got a lot of data including some on the euro spec 1.8s and 1974 is the first year where they start differentiating in terms of materials and finishes between the base models depending on whether ROW or USA.
they take the base 1.8s and base 2.0s further up market in terms of carpet and exterior finish items (vinyl on sail cloth etc) for the USA and they leave ROW in its more stripped form for base models similar to earlier years.

so they could have done a vent cover delete in ROW for base spec cars.
similar to what they did with differences between 6 and 4 in 70-71.
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but the general rule that early cars do not have them would not seem to be necessarily true as it looks to me like the 6s did get them and the vent covers were there from the start as a part of the design. just only on the more expensive versions.

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