[200q20v] my A/C condensate runneth over

Kneale Brownson knotnook at traverse.com
Tue Aug 14 21:13:22 EDT 2001


At 05:35 PM 08/14/2001 -0400, Phil Rose wrote:

>Yeh, I could see that plastic elbow but could barely reach it with my 
>fingertips. I might have been able to pull the elbow out with the aid of a 
>long needlenose pliers but was afraid something would break (*). I do 
>think that refastening the blower housing might solve the problem--even 
>though that hose is still plugged and may overflow. If it overflows, the 
>excess condensate should probably just drain down into the big (rain) 
>drain, but some of it had been able to seep under the gasket. Anyway, 
>that's my story and I'm sticking to it.  :-)
>
>(*) If it ain't broke, don't break it!
>--
A pair of sidecutters would open the rubber hose attached to the 
elbow.  Then anything in the box could drain out to the main rain drain 
(wonder if it's molded for Audi in Spain?).




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