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Hello all,
Had an extremely special moment and put a screw into my aircon pipe on the interior heat exchanger. Long story (hot day today and need to get it fixed!). Horrible moment listening to the gas escaping for about 10mins and I knew it was expensive...
I'm hoping I've only pierced the pipe and might be able to repair and so want to take a look at before buying parts, but can I get anywhere near it...
Managed to get the dash to bits pretty well and removed pollen filter etc.
Still can't get the bottom half of the casing off the exchanger.
Next step is removing the aircon pipe connector in the engine bay bulkhead as that seems to be what's holding it in place.
I've searched for ages on the forum and not seen anything (so I must be really special doing this!)
If anyone knows how it comes apart and can offer some advice I'd much appreciated appreciate it.
I'm running a 06 1.9tdi 104bhp of that helps...
Actually is it an evaporator or a condenser, evaporator init...?
I'm sorry, there is very very little chance of a repair, because the thin wall ally tubing used is pretty difficult to weld or repair (it could, technically be done, by a very good TIG welder, but it'd cost you more than the replacement part.
The A/C routing on the T5 isn't great, and the pipes do go round the houses a bit, but they are in several sections, so you might be able to unbolt the offending pipe and just replace that (if you're really unlucky, you've pierced the pipe that is welded to the evaporator, and that'll be expensive)
The Evaporator is low side of the cooling cycle and I've seen commercial fridge evaps repaired with liquid metal type adhesives.
Not recommend it personally but I've seen it work.
I was thinking of cutting out a section of the it is on one of the pipes an trying to see if I can get on of these in...
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/171073301120?_mwBanner=1
Check how much you can buy the pipe for before spending £25 on a bodge!
These vans aren't exactly rare, so you'll find s/h parts in the usual breakers, and if it's just a single pipe you might find the new price isn't as high as you might think!
Good suggestion, pipe is connected to the evaporator and is £130.
Issue is getting the thing out. Can't even figure out how to get access to the part I punctured