Hi - I have a 2005 Saab 9-3 and am having what I believe to be an AC drainage problem - the passenger foot well and underneath the passenger seat get soaked while running my AC. The driver side is completely dry. There is one spot where water drips to the ground below the right side of the car with the AC on (approximately below the passenger foot well). I have already cleaned out the drain below the air filter and the "like" drain on the other side and just replaced the cabin air filter - so I'm nearly certain no rain is intruding from the cabin filter manifold/blower area. The hard white plastic AC manifold between the center console and the blower has some foam attached that is soaking wet and appears to be draining along the left edge of the passenger foot well slope to the bottom of the passenger foot well.
Having read some forums it looks like my AC drain line is clogged and must be accessed through the fire wall and cleaned with a coat hanger? Is there any other way to clean it without removing the firewall - ie accessing from below car or pulling up carpet? Is there only one AC drain line this could be? What does the drain tube look like? The reason I'm asking is that it looks really difficult to get to the firewall area that I've seen talked about and there is about a 6" x 12" plate bolted to the fire wall that looks like it has to be removed at great difficulty to get to where I've read the drain starts.
I had to replace the blower motor resistor and clean the blower motor several weeks back due to water intrusion so I'm hoping to fix this before the issue occurs again. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Having read some forums it looks like my AC drain line is clogged and must be accessed through the fire wall and cleaned with a coat hanger? Is there any other way to clean it without removing the firewall - ie accessing from below car or pulling up carpet? Is there only one AC drain line this could be? What does the drain tube look like? The reason I'm asking is that it looks really difficult to get to the firewall area that I've seen talked about and there is about a 6" x 12" plate bolted to the fire wall that looks like it has to be removed at great difficulty to get to where I've read the drain starts.
I had to replace the blower motor resistor and clean the blower motor several weeks back due to water intrusion so I'm hoping to fix this before the issue occurs again. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
