Air recirculation door spring...thinking out loud...

[Kneale Brownson]

I think the spring applies a bit of extra pressure to assure the door in 
the cabin is pressed against its flexible seal.  Did your spring break or 
did the plastic to which it's anchored break?   The doors share plastic 
arms that have a hinge in the middle.  The arms maintain a fixed 
relationship between the doors.  When the door in the cabin swings closed, 
the one in the evaporator box is held open by the shared arms.  All my Type 
44 cars (two 5K, a 200q20v and a V8) suffered the spring slicing through 
the plastic bar in the box to which it's anchored.


At 09:39 AM 04/26/2001 +0200, Gerard wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm thinking out loud here on this one.
>
>The spring between the vent doors on the A/C on my Audi 200 is broken.
>It is so broken that it is missing. I'm going to have to get another
>spring in there to connect the upper and lower doors.
>
>But... and here is where I'm probably being silly... why use a spring
>that might break again? I was thinking of perhaps a plastic or light
>alloy connecting rod to connect the doors together. Would this be silly?
>What would stop one from trying to fit a strip of plastic between the 2
>doors. Is it perhaps too cramped an area to do something like this?
>
>G.
>
>