Air Con drain clear. How?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 8:22 am
My wife's CC ('57 plate) has a swimming pool in the passenger side front and rear. Even noticed water actually splashing down centre console left hand side from under plastic side cover and dribbling down side carpet.
Checked scuttle drains - all clear. Then read about air con drain. Dried carpets and foam etc - took forever and driving now with a/c off - no more leaks.
Read about air con drain blockages so put car on ramps and removed the 6 bolts and brace panel under the front exhaust to enable me to lower front heat shield. However, unlike non CC versions, the CC has a silencer/catalytic box here and not the straight length of pipe I've seen on other images so the heat sheild doesn't come down much. Twisted and bent it as much as I could and had as good a look as I could but could not see drain. There was an area right at the top of the heat shield that I just couldn't see.
So question: where is the drain and how best do I access and clear it?
Checked scuttle drains - all clear. Then read about air con drain. Dried carpets and foam etc - took forever and driving now with a/c off - no more leaks.
Read about air con drain blockages so put car on ramps and removed the 6 bolts and brace panel under the front exhaust to enable me to lower front heat shield. However, unlike non CC versions, the CC has a silencer/catalytic box here and not the straight length of pipe I've seen on other images so the heat sheild doesn't come down much. Twisted and bent it as much as I could and had as good a look as I could but could not see drain. There was an area right at the top of the heat shield that I just couldn't see.
So question: where is the drain and how best do I access and clear it?