Derya

For question 3 — the things that reliably make it worse, all of which are what a guilty human wants to do:

Following her. Going to find her, crouching down, reaching out. From her side this is the frightening thing pursuing her, which confirms exactly the prediction you are trying to disprove.

Picking her up. Removes her ability to leave, which is the one thing she is currently relying on.

Treats offered from the hand, too early. The food is good and the hand is the problem; forcing them together while she is still wary can attach the wariness to the food. Put the treat down and walk away instead.

Apologising out loud, at length, in a concerned voice. Tone carries. An anxious, insistent voice directed at a cat is not reassuring, it is more input from the thing she is avoiding.

Two days is short. Most of these repair within a week if nothing pushes.

I did change the oil myself before this started. I will check whether what I used is actually rated for a wet clutch, because I bought it for the viscosity and did not look further.

On how far it travels: much less far than people expect, and that is the useful part of your question.

Paint is a suspension of solids in a carrier. When it hits soil, the carrier soaks in and the solids are filtered out almost immediately by the top few centimetres — soil is very good at this, which is the same property that makes it clean rainwater. A poured spill typically ends up concentrated in the top 5-10cm directly beneath it, with a sharp edge.

Lateral movement is smaller still. Without a slope or a lot of running water, you are talking centimetres, not metres.

So a bed six metres away is not at risk in any realistic reading, and it is not something to test or worry about. The affected zone is roughly the visible patch plus a small margin.

Since you mentioned the gas canister: that one is not a temperature-preference question, it is a do-not.

Canisters have a stated maximum storage temperature, usually around 50°C, and a car in sun exceeds that comfortably. Same for lithium batteries and power banks, which degrade permanently well below the temperature at which anything visible happens, and aerosols of any kind.

Footwell is the right answer for a packed lunch and a bottle of water. For anything pressurised or with a battery in it, the right answer is that it comes with you or it stays at home.

The blocker is the electronics, not the light-emitting part.

An LED needs a driver — a small circuit that converts mains voltage into the low-voltage current the diode wants. That circuit contains electrolytic capacitors and semiconductors, and those are what die: a typical electrolytic capacitor is rated to 105°C at best, and its life halves roughly every 10°C above rating. An oven at 200°C destroys it in short order.

The diode itself also loses efficiency and shifts colour as it heats, and its own lifetime collapses, but the driver fails first and by a wide margin.

Which is exactly why the old bulb is still there: an incandescent has nothing in it but a tungsten filament in a glass envelope, and it is already running at over 2,000°C internally. An oven is not a hostile environment to it — it barely notices.