Ventilation System
 

Hi All

All of a sudden I have water in the Ventilation System,I'm not sure how its got in or where its come from.

Its a pain because when the Ventilation System is running you get water in the foot wells and out of the vents.

Has anyone any ideas on how this has happened and a remedy.


Cheers

M3CSL

if its what i've seen on the forum its the drains under the bonnet near the centre of the car that block up with leafs and general crud. I think i've seen a series of threads on the forum recently detailing it further, do a search of the forum..you should find the threads.

Try here.

I never wanted to be a Librarian. I always wanted to be a Lumberjack.

that'd be the one i meant :D stick with the dewey decimal system conan..the library needs you!

yep very common took about 5 litres out of my front mats/carpets a few weeks back, then did all the drains, seems to have worked (fingers crossed) just remember the guide on Audi pages is for LHD so you dont need to undo throttle stop etc, but the drivers side tunnel cover is a real bu^^er to get back in.

ok how about this one for removing the water out of the vents ..... i was annoyed and did not want to wait for it to evaporate so i came up with this idea ....

get some copper brake pipe a 2liter empty coke bottle put a hole in it just the right size for the copper pipe about half way down and put the pipe in the vents and a hoover on the top of the coke bottle and hey presto look at the results ...



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copper pipe

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stick it in the vent
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then into your bottle

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attach hoover and suck it out

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result .... no more sloshing

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about 200-250 mil i think over all

Top tip guy! +++++++++

Added to sticky.

wow added to sticky im glad you liked it

That's a bloody brilliant idea!! +++

Well done that man!

well it worked a treat and im still working on a faster dry time for the carpets as the 3 inches of foam soaks up a bath full haha

thanks for the top tip will be doing that this weekend.



m3csl

Guess you will still need to unblock the drains as well or it will just fill up again?

no problem, and yes the drains under the H vac blower motor still need to be cleared i used the audi pages way that mike discribed over the phone for me, i still need to investigate Botangs hole near the ecu tray just to be extra sure the misses wont be having a foot spa on the move again haha

have you done the orange ones in the tranny tunnel as well?

i had done them a while back but im fairly sure the cause was the 4inches or so of water in the scuttle area under the bonnet by the H vac, it was however in all the vents in the rear ect.. so i may well check that out at some point to make sure it all stay's dry

My Aircon has started smelling of stale water just as it starts up ,you think i have a drain hole prob ,though my car does leave a nice puddle which appears to be coming from the orange tube position ,but only on the drivers side.

orange drain pipe yes, by any chance if you turn the air con on for 5-10 mins then manualy select econ mode shutting the ac off then tell me what it smells like +++ if it only smells bad when it crosses over from ac to econ then its the orange drains

ok will give it a go when i am next out thanks :)

also forgot to ad that when you test it do it with ac on low +++

That is an AWESOME solution!! I've just had the same problem occur to my A8 after it came back from the main dealer!! I'll be hoovering out my centre console after i've found the blocked drains and cleared them! Does the blocked aircon drains make a hissing noise from just in front of the passenger under the bonnet aswell??