Yargh! leaky dash

[cul202]

Anyone had problems with their (R32) heater box?

I got a rather rude good morning from my car today when it decided to leak a little steam out from under the dash on the passenger side. Went to investigate & found that I could see buggar all but a couple of green drips on the underside of the heater box.

Do you have to take the whole dash out to get to it? How big a job is it? I’m seriously hoping that its just a loose pipe or something to that effect.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated muchly.

Ben

[Guest RedLineGTR]

Have a look in the maintenence forum and check out one of the stickys, someone did a guide for a r33 which should be similar to a r32 but in simple terms he had the whole dash out.

[cul202]

Wow, that’s really quite comprehensive. Can’t believe I didn’t look there in the first place.

Thanks for that.

I don’t really like the part where it says “entire dash & support removal” or “6 – 8 hours work” though

Looks like I’ll be by passing it for this evening’s activities. Gotta get to a party in the Northern Beaches & don’t like the idea of catching public transport up there…

[krawler]

If you dont mind doing a temporary dodgy, you can just get a union to suit the size rubber hose that feeds the heater box and "bridge" it out just in front of the firewall.

Usually enough length to pull off the heater box fitting, union together and voila. Hopefully enough length so you dont have to chop anywhere.

[predator]

yes, this was me.. there is an uber thread on how to replace it.. pull it apart.. pix, everything.. get reading

there is also like krawler is talking about - search 'bypassing heater core' in maintenance.

it will be slightly different for an r32 but i think the same basic principles will apply.

have fun (you won't!)

[cul202]

Yeah, ended up bypassing it a few minutes after seeing the your pictures of the dash out.

Will wait for a free w/e before tackling that one properly. Dashboards, along with things like engines & rear cradles are things that I rather dispise removing & refitting.