Posted: 6/25/2005 11:48:39 AM EDT
| What would cause the A/C to leak inside the car? I have puddles of water daily on the passsenger side floorboard. Any help would be appreciated. |
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There is an a/c drain hose from the evaporator case to the outside of the car under the floorboard or on the firewall under the hood. Those can become clogged. You need to take something long enough to make it up the hose and work the clog/crud out. Don't go further than the top of the hose/bottom of the case - you don't want to puncture the evaporator. Watch for the water to flow all over you, so be ready |
true it would fog up, if it's not that check the hose from the evaporator and see where it runs |
Exactly... 99% of the time the A/C drain tube is clogged from debris, some can be hard to locate though, but they all come out of the firewall. Look for a very short rubber tube that just sticks out of the firewall and points down. However, in some cars, mostly imports like Nissan, the drain tube gets disconnected on the inside of the evaporator tray and once the shallow tray gets full of water it leaks inside the car. This is not a very difficult fix either, but you will have to drop the lower panel under the dash and the lower evaporator tray in order to reconnect the tube. Not hard to do. |
My guess would be condensation. My Neon used to gush from the lower A/C vents back in Ohio, but it never happens out here because of the lack of humidity. |