Soarer Central: Just My Luck........Heater Core.....

Soarer Central Air Conditioning and Climate Control Just My Luck........Heater Core.....

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Joe Aliano
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 09:08 pm, by: Joe Aliano (Sexylexus)

Well its just my luck , 3 months after I did the interior the AFM decides to pack it in and after spending $230 for a replacement what should happen that night.... the bloddy heater core decides to leak.

My wife was driving home when she rings me on the mobile and tells me that water in bubbling out from the dash and vents.... fogging up all the windows, obviously she pulled over at this stage ...luckily she was close to home.

So the next few weeks while the car was out of action I decided to hunt for the problem , I realised that there was water leaking from the front passenger side and traced it back up towards the dash......IT COULD ONLY MEAN ONE THING

I knew I was in for one hell of a job.

Anyway check out the pics.....all I have to do now is track down a heater core$$$$$.....If you guys are interested I can do a step by step pictorial in case you ever need to do it yourself.

Would you be interested in that or is it a waste of time.

Peter Nitschke
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 01:14 am, by: Peter Nitschke (Pen)

Joe, a tutorial would be greatly appreciated. As these cars get older, it's bound to happen to someone else.

Joe Aliano
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 11:00 am, by: Joe Aliano (Sexylexus)

Neil Griffiths wrote on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 08:37 pm:
Send me Email..I give you Joe price,,Ok

Email Sent

James Harris
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:39 pm, by: James Harris (Haro)

HOLY CRAP !!

That is clearly a job i NEVER want to do, how long did that take you mate ?

Did the leakin coolant damage anything else like your interior or electrics?

good luck fixin and puttin it all together mate

Matthew Sharpe
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 10:45 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

I imagine pulling it apart isn't too bad - it'll be the putting back together where the fun really starts...

Matt McGowan
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Friday, March 31, 2006 - 09:51 pm, by: Matt McGowan (Gigantor)

haha, my heater core is stuffed (Currently bypassed till i get the time to get it fixed), i contemplated a DIY effort but after those pics i think i'll just wear a woolly jumper when i drive at night i think!! Brave man Joe!!

Ronny Jeremy
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Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 11:45 pm, by: Ronny Jeremy (Ronnie)

OMG Just looking at that makes me wanna run to the cupboard and pop quite a few prozax's

Mine started leaking a couple of years ago and i ended up by-passing the heater core and rugging up in winter

What a scary job

Rhong Hua Xie
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 12:01 am, by: Rhong Hua Xie (Wm_z)

I too wouldn't mind seeing a tutorial surfacing on how to fix the problem. Sorry to hear about your car, rather unfortunate that someone like yourself would ever have to go through such things. Hope everything works out ok in the smoothes and best way possible.

Ray Crawford
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 09:21 am, by: Ray Crawford (Ray)

My heater core started leaking back in 2002. At the time I had Parramatta Auto Cooling replace the heater core all up for $693.00 which included $99.00 for a new heater core. Being a Limited model the water leaked under the carpet and went under the rear seat into the radio tuner. It cost me another $150.00 to have the tuner repaired. At least the guys at Parramatta Auto Cooling praised the design of the Soarer saying that at least you can unbolt everything to get at the heater core. In Commodores everything is glued in place.

Ben Socratous
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Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 07:10 pm, by: Ben Socratous (Socrates)

Matthew Sharpe wrote on Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 09:45 am:
imagine pulling it apart isn't too bad - it'll be the putting back together where the fun really starts...

Too right mate, that's why working on a car that belongs to an engineer is always easier, they always understand when you have a few parts left over with nowhere for them to go

Matthew Sharpe
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 06:12 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

Ben Socratous wrote on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 07:10 pm:
Too right mate, that's why working on a car that belongs to an engineer is always easier, they always understand when you have a few parts left over with nowhere for them to go

I'm always paranoid about that when working on my fiancee's car as she'd make me pull it all apart again and try again until I'd used all the left over bits...

Peter Nitschke
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:16 pm, by: Peter Nitschke (Pen)

Just say "they are the parts I replaced with new ones"

Matthew Sharpe
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 06:07 am, by: Matthew Sharpe (Madmatt)

Ha, unfortunately she's smarter than me and would know I was fibbing.

Michael Sinay
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 01:06 pm, by: Michael Sinay (Mikey)

Yeh my heater core just died last night, water all through the passenger carpet and the engine heated up nice and quick...
Oh yeh and my car smells like fish now too ;P

I really dont want to have to pull out all the dash like that, but i know its going to get nice a cold very soon... Guess I'll have to by-pass the heater until i get a chance to fix it.

Joe a tutorial would be a great help ;)

Ray, was that $99.00 for a brand new heater core?

Joe Aliano
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Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 06:06 pm, by: Joe Aliano (Sexylexus)

Michael Sinay wrote on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 01:06 pm:
Yeh my heater core just died last night, water all through the passenger carpet and the engine heated up nice and quick...
Oh yeh and my car smells like fish now too ;P

I really dont want to have to pull out all the dash like that, but i know its going to get nice a cold very soon... Guess I'll have to by-pass the heater until i get a chance to fix it.

Joe a tutorial would be a great help ;)