Air Conditioner Noise & Leak?

[Nanermoon]

This has been an issue in my Yaris since the first summer I used the A/C (note: also the first summer I had the car.)

I have found the best tool from under the car is a heave gauge guitar wire. Thanks for the tip on the in-cabin option - I think that will be far easier than having to jack the car up every time I have to do this. My dealer basically said there is no fix for it, and the best thing to do is to continue emptying it.

Don't let it go too long, though! I just found out today that I burned out my blower motor, and will now need to replace it.

I am competent enough to change a tire, and check oil, etc. I am pretty good at directions. Would this be a repair I might do myself, or would it need a lot of tools I don't have? I just don't have the money to pay to have it done, and no cabin air is a real bummer.

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Nanermoon

This has been an issue in my Yaris since the first summer I used the A/C (note: also the first summer I had the car.)

I have found the best tool from under the car is a heave gauge guitar wire. Thanks for the tip on the in-cabin option - I think that will be far easier than having to jack the car up every time I have to do this. My dealer basically said there is no fix for it, and the best thing to do is to continue emptying it.

Don't let it go too long, though! I just found out today that I burned out my blower motor, and will now need to replace it.

I am competent enough to change a tire, and check oil, etc. I am pretty good at directions. Would this be a repair I might do myself, or would it need a lot of tools I don't have? I just don't have the money to pay to have it done, and no cabin air is a real bummer.

Replacing the blower is not bad, as it is at the bottom of the stack, behind the passenger glove box. Are you sure that the blower is actually bad? Will it not spin at all, or is it making noise?

[yarisarisheris]

So glad to find this forum and more precisely this thread. My wife's 08 Yaris was experiencing much the same thing. I suspected a condensation buildup on the exterior of the A/C duct work, etc as we couldn't locate a specific leak location, but after reading through your posts, I turned my focus on the drain tube.

Oddly when I pulled the grommet end if from the firewall, the whole tube (~6-7 inches) rested neatly in my hand. The tube was not plugged after all, but instead the tube must have slipped off the plastic drain port at the base of the pan. I could find no hose clamp or much in the way to offer resistance to prevent the rubber tube from sliding off should someone stretch out their legs a little "too far" and dislodging it.

I checked to make sure everything associated with the drain was clean before reattaching the tube. Now the waiting game . . .

Cheers!

[VTekFan33]

Looks like Toyota still hasn't fixed this issue!
I see most posts are for the '07 & '08 models. Mine is the '09 and I began having this issue yesterday.

Thank God for this site! I'm going to clean it out either today or tomorrow before it gets any nastier. Only good thing is that I have plastic floor mats down over my regular mats!