Hello all,
Yesterday I found myself showering in a fine mist of boiled coolant, and today there's a puddle in the footwells. The Bentley manual describes a long but not mind-bending process for removing the dashboard and heater box, and swapping out the heater core for cars without A/C. For cars with A/C, they just say that you have to discharge the system and call your authorized VW repairperson. The dealer quotes 2-3 hours labour for a heater core if you don't have A/C, and 7 hours if you do.
My A/C doesn't work and never will. If I dove in there and tried to do it myself, what horrors will I encounter that are peculiar to air conditioned cars? The refrigerant circuit is completely separate from the coolant circuit, right? And the cores are the same for all cars. What on earth takes the pros an extra four hours?
Thanks Theo