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Old Dec 11, 2009 | 08:28 AM
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Unhappy no heat and 28 below outside

Okay, So i have been reading that some people say the heater core clogs and you can do a flush to get it to work, so my under standing is you take the hoses to the right of your battery on the back of the firewall you connect a hose to the right inlet let it all drain once you do that disconect the left inlet pour hot water down there and stuff should be coming out the right inlet am i right? and than burb the car by letting it run.
 
Old Dec 11, 2009 | 11:14 AM
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I personally would flush it under the pressure of a hose going in the opposite direction of normal flow. That should get you all cleaned out if that is the issue.
 
Old Dec 11, 2009 | 06:26 PM
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ok cleaned it at first pink stuff came out than brown than it went clear went to turn on the heater wasnt very hot
 
Old Dec 11, 2009 | 11:20 PM
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flush your entire system. buy yourself a nice warm jacket
 
Old Dec 11, 2009 | 11:56 PM
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I had the same problem. Had the whole system flushed but still required plenty of work trying to bleed the air out of the core. It's pretty simple but pretty messy. You can find lots of DIYs on it. After two good bleeds and a bottle of G12 and water I finally have enough heat to be comfortable driving while it was single digits outside. Not perfect yet (does not produce a lot of heat at idle but plenty while driving) but I actually took my gloves off for the first time while driving today since I got a few weeks ago.
 
Old Dec 12, 2009 | 11:29 AM
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i have a nice jacket it
 
Old Dec 13, 2009 | 05:38 AM
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Make sure your air mixer servo and heat valve are working too...
 
Old Dec 13, 2009 | 12:43 PM
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seems like the heat works than it gets cold again i felt the pipes coming out the core there hot
 
Old Dec 13, 2009 | 04:15 PM
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So if both are hot, then you need to look at your mixer servo, it could be stuck on mostly cold..
 
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