metal pipe under dash gets very hot!
does anyone know what the metal pipe is on the drivers side of the dash just behind the hot/cold knob and fan speed switch?mine is heating up very hot-to hot to touch and i can feel heat coming from it on my left leg while im driving!
Last edited by comfortablynumb; 08-12-2011 at 12:47 PM.
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You must have a sensitive leg!....that pipe is the hot water pipe to the heater. If you dial COLD it should not get hot. If it still gets hot then a vacuum hose to the heater tap may have come off which leaves the hot water flow on at all times....this is not uncommon.
Good Luck.
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haha only one of my legs are sensitive and its not the left one!....when i felf the heat i thought that the heater was on but it wasnt the switch was in the cold position and when i turned the fan on it was cold air coming out not hot.. enough heat comes off this pipe that it heats my whole car inside and heats up the plastic molding on the side of my console aswel
Heater tap could also be broken letting hot coolant continuously flow through the heater core. Replaced mine a while ago and stopped the same problem.
95 VS Berlina
http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/...ml#post1891856
I need some statesman/ calais woodgrain for drivers side panel!!
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When you dial COLD, the switch applies vacuum to the heater tap, which then closes cutting off the supply of HOT coolant to the heater.
I cannot figure how the pipe can be HOT when you dial COLD and have COLD air coming out when the pipe is HOT......if the pipe is HOT then the heater must be HOT and the air coming out should be HOT.
However, I've just thought about it and BINGO - the air is cold because the airconditioning is cooling the HOT air down......so that indicates your heater tap is not turning the coolant supply to the heater off.
To check, press the AC button OFF, dial to COLD and see if the air is HOT.....if still cold then I'm a monkey's uncle.
"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." -- Jean Giraudoux
yeh my a/c is/was off cause it doesnt work so i never use it!
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Check that the dial is turning the vacuum off as per the attached pics:
Note that in the first pic, the operating rod is not attached.
Last edited by hako; 08-12-2011 at 09:25 PM. Reason: note
"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." -- Jean Giraudoux
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Thanks hako number 4&5 pics I needed to see.
Last edited by VS_Pete_1; 09-12-2011 at 05:20 AM.
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My VS II Berlina Wagon
MY12 II SV6 Sportwagon
my car has a similar problem to this but it only blows hot hair, it sucks coz i wanna be in my wagon but all i eva get is hot hair
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Follow the steps above or check this: Air Conditioning AdviceOriginally Posted by yoshi87
"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made." -- Jean Giraudoux
yeh i had to unconnect the rod and pull the arm right back as far as it would go towards the back of the cold/hot dial on my console then reconnect the arm and it fixed my problem...thanks to hako.
The gears on my vs nob were stripped. So I had to move the rod myself to go between hot and cold. Burnt myself a few times before I got used to it.
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