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grizzlyzoneI drive a '95 Isuzu pick-up with over 176,000 miles on it. I generally ride alone, so the passenger seat tends to collect debris - old soda cans, fast food wrappers, cast iron weights, miscellaneous papers, etc.
I recently cleaned out the passenger compartment and things were... well, wet. The last couple of days, a hard left turn would see about a cup of water pour out of the bottom of the dash onto the floor below. (WTF?!) But, judging from the mess in the footwells on the passenger side, this didn't just start last week.
One possibility is that I have a leak in the heater core. But, I've had that happen before on other cars and I'm not getting that greasy mist coating the inside of my windshield, nor the choking glycol-laden fumes from the coolant.
I'm thinking maybe the air vent intake drain is clogged with leaves and other debris, and that's collecting water from the lawn sprinklers at night. How one cleans that out is anyone's guess.
UPDATE: After stopping at the grocery store, the vent fan is dead. One hundred and four degrees was the official temperature yesterday, and I have no ventilation, no A/C inside the truck, a humidifying "pond" in the passenger's footwell and a very soggy carpet. Wonderful. (I'm suspecting a wet, rusted and shorted vent fan - amongst other things.)
UPDATE: The current theory is that the condensation drain is clogged and that the water is condensation off the air conditioner coil. That condensation flooded the fan, which may have rusted.
In any event, every time I need a part, I'm told that the mechanic spent the day on the phone and managed to get the last one in North America. It's being floiwn in, but will costs me $1,000 for parts and labor to replace it.
I recently cleaned out the passenger compartment and things were... well, wet. The last couple of days, a hard left turn would see about a cup of water pour out of the bottom of the dash onto the floor below. (WTF?!) But, judging from the mess in the footwells on the passenger side, this didn't just start last week.
One possibility is that I have a leak in the heater core. But, I've had that happen before on other cars and I'm not getting that greasy mist coating the inside of my windshield, nor the choking glycol-laden fumes from the coolant.
I'm thinking maybe the air vent intake drain is clogged with leaves and other debris, and that's collecting water from the lawn sprinklers at night. How one cleans that out is anyone's guess.
UPDATE: After stopping at the grocery store, the vent fan is dead. One hundred and four degrees was the official temperature yesterday, and I have no ventilation, no A/C inside the truck, a humidifying "pond" in the passenger's footwell and a very soggy carpet. Wonderful. (I'm suspecting a wet, rusted and shorted vent fan - amongst other things.)
UPDATE: The current theory is that the condensation drain is clogged and that the water is condensation off the air conditioner coil. That condensation flooded the fan, which may have rusted.
In any event, every time I need a part, I'm told that the mechanic spent the day on the phone and managed to get the last one in North America. It's being floiwn in, but will costs me $1,000 for parts and labor to replace it.
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Date: 2007-08-11 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-11 09:50 pm (UTC)Plan B is to investigating getting a slightly used vehicle as the new GRiZmobile.
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