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Now that I am over the floormat thing, I need to replace the cowl drain on the passenger side of my 91 Spider. I have already done the one on the driver's side, and I have the replacement tube for the passenger side. I just need to find out how to get to the drain tube in an S4 that has airconditioning. Do you go through the glove compartment somehow? Do you go up behind the glove compartment somehow? Do you have to remove the a/c blower to get to the tube? I sure would appreciate any words of advice or instruction? Thanks all.
By the way, for anybody who needs to replace their cowl drain tubes, clear vinyl tubing from the hardware store just dont work. You'd tempted to try it since the hardware store stuff really looks like it ought to work. But it won't. The tube has to make some triple convoluted turns on its way from the cowl to the wheel well, and vinyl tubing won't make those bends without kinking and crimping. Eventually, after spending a whole Saturday installing and removing the vinyl, I wised up and bought the real thing -- readymade and prebent tubing. Got it from the nice folks at Centerline, but I think IAP and others have it, too.
By the way, for anybody who needs to replace their cowl drain tubes, clear vinyl tubing from the hardware store just dont work. You'd tempted to try it since the hardware store stuff really looks like it ought to work. But it won't. The tube has to make some triple convoluted turns on its way from the cowl to the wheel well, and vinyl tubing won't make those bends without kinking and crimping. Eventually, after spending a whole Saturday installing and removing the vinyl, I wised up and bought the real thing -- readymade and prebent tubing. Got it from the nice folks at Centerline, but I think IAP and others have it, too.