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styrafoam "fuzz" coming out of air vents on older Boxster
bb1 - Saturday, 18 June, 2011, at 3:43:59 pm
Hi there - would any one be so kind as to offer some suggestions on what I expect is a common (minor) problem.

The car is about 10 yrs old and lately when the air conditioner/vents are on, it is throwing out a bit of fuzz....on closer inspection, i can see behind the air nozzle/diverter/thingies...some gray fuzz/styrafoam material....and it looks to just have fallen apart due to heat/age. So it's deteriorated...and came loose from somewhere in there and is largely "wadded" up towards the diverter/nozzles....I tried to pull it out w/ some tweezers...but it falls apart (so you can't really get it out of there). If there were an easy way to take off those nozzle/diverter/thingies....it would be a snap to clean it out.

Thanks in advance.
My '99 started spitting out foam a few years ago. I took the blower housing apart (accessed under the passenger side dash - pull off the carpet below the dash, and take the housing apart - a relatively easy task). Using a ShopVac, suck out all the loose foam.

But..... I thought I got it all, yet I still get some foam out of the vents. Larger pieces get lodged there, and I fire up the ShopVac, hold it next to the vent with the fan running on high, and "stab" at the material letting the shopvac suck it up.

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Thanks - i'll try that approach
Whatever happened to Chris anyway. Have not seen him on the board for a long time.

Joe
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