Help! lots of steam..

[jok 0]

Okay my VR has been sitting idle for a while (I work abroad!) and i am told its been pretty cold here of late.

Anyway I have just jump started it to life and after a while my dash started sizzling and tons of steam coming out of every hole in the dash.

Any ideas? has a pipe blown? do i need to strip out the dash?

any help is very much appreciated thanks all hail the corrado guru's :notworthy:

[fla 9]

oh dear, heater matrix gone im afraid. I've not done this on mine but appaerntly its not hard just time consuming.

[jok 0]

thanks fla, for urmm the bad news!

any ideas where to get a replacement?

[lilfuzzer 1]

dont think thety are that badly priced from the dealers

[dbug 0]

or you can get one from GSF a bit cheaper - some fit the TT ones.

 

not too bad a job to get dash out - just time consuming especially finding the front fasteners ( they are in the engine bay under the wiper arms !! ( took me an hour to work that one out the other week :lol: ) there is a thread on the removal of a dash which talks about removing steering wheel and seats but i did it fine with them in. only 6 fixings holding dash the shell its all the other bits that you need move/undo which takes the time.

[jok 0]

okay I am trying out the non dash removal technique by Chuck.

stuck on some things:

what/where the nobby nut on the fan?

what/where is the triangle bracket?

 

the lower nut for the matrix in the engine bay is fcuked the whole thing spins so nut wont come off and and its rusted badly

how the hell do you get to the fan arm nut its behind the colant filler so you need a super long rachet arm with a bend in it!

 

anyone done this recently ?

[farrantino 0]

Id take the dash out personally not hard atall (taken mine out a few times now), it is a tad time consuming but worth it, otherwise your squeezing inbetween the dash and the bulk head and could damage something else.

 

Theres a guide on the wiki on how to do it

 

Best of luck

 

Sean