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i have just brought my new corrado, 94 vr6 and its going through a bottle of water a day and there is no visable leak, the car is steaming up on the inside and i have just noticed the drivers side foot well filling up with water, i am assuming its the heater matrix thats leaking cos the car is running fine in every other way any ideas?

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Certainly sounds like the matrix. Does it smell of coolant? They are a stupid amount of money from VW (£170-ish?), but you can get a Valeo on from GSF for under £40 (you can get 10% discount if you're a CCGB member). Valeo make the VW ones by the way, and last time I changed one I had them side-by-side and they were identical.

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Another victim of the matrix of doooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmm!! Best of luck and welcome to the forum, there is a wiki on here somewhere as to how to complete this baptism of fire!

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Certainly sounds like the matrix. Does it smell of coolant?

 

Probably not if he's only chucking water in .... :)

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Certainly sounds like the matrix. Does it smell of coolant? They are a stupid amount of money from VW (£170-ish?), but you can get a Valeo on from GSF for under £40 (you can get 10% discount if you're a CCGB member). Valeo make the VW ones by the way, and last time I changed one I had them side-by-side and they were identical.

 

nice one mate, yeah it does smell of coolant theres a gsf up the road ill go there:-) i have a bit of a clue when it comes to mechanics is it a job i should do myself? cheers mate.. life long united fan:-)

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Probably not if he's only chucking water in .... :)

 

sorry , coolant... and yes it does smell of coolant cheers bud:-)

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Yeh, have a go yourself. Will save you £££. If I can do it, anyone can! :lol: Use the guide in the Wiki.

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ive got mine to do aswel got a matrix for £26 on ebay its from gsf.i am going to try and do it with dash in place as ive read its posible

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yeah i have been researching it and it looks like you can do by just removing the lower parts,ie the centre console, and there is a guide posted on this site that i read that gives you a step by step of how they did it, im gonna attempt mine saturday

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