2003 Hyundai Santa Fe AC Evaporator Core & Dashboard 

What brand Evaporator Core did you go with?

@@tommygomez5343 You can go with pretty much whatever brand because they will all be manufactured to the design, but just make sure they have additional corrosive resistance added to them as that is one of the biggest killers of Evaperator Cores

Dude! Awesome!! I couldn’t find any info or videos on how to remove the core from the sonata. I’m going to help a friend with an 03’ sonata and wanted to know what kind of mess I’m stepping into

Bornaz thank you for watching and commenting!!

gjb149 awesome!!!! Great job, we love when one of our videos helps someone do a job themselves and if you did this job, you can be very proud of that and consider yourself very competent at this type of thing, most people do not have the patience. Thanks for watching and commenting!!

Aaron Smith awesome awesome awesome!!! This is a difficult job so you should be very proud of accomplishing this!!

u should try taking the whole dash apart

Dude shut the hell up have you done this on a Hyundai Sante Fe which is shown on this video? You can't just simply pull the a/c evap from under the dash or glove box because the dash is in the way and the steel dash crossmember is blocking it preventing it from removal. You can probably do 3/4 of the labor on another type of car but not this one so you need to think before you give out a negative comment like this.

@@1998gst4611 yeah I did , and literally all I did was bend the tab on right hand side of the glove box. Saved myself 10 hours and actually just bent it back and no one could tell. But yeah I should shut the helll up helping out saving time. Dick head

@@1998gst4611 This is a guy that did it on an 2004 Santa Fe, not removing the dash. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3SYMXX7v-o0.html

@@1998gst4611 Dude, YOU. ARE. INSANE.

Boom10ful I would make sure that comment is from this exact model, if so, I’d love to see a video of that as the Hyundai repair manual as well as the labor guide and flat out logic makes that seem impossible, on this exact model anyway,

I have to take mine apart anyway. I'll let you know if it works!

@@APDTY Got it done last night. It's hard to take it off without removing the dash, but it is possible. The bottom right plastic mount for the evaporator box makes it VERY hard to take off or put back the evaporator box in, so for the reinstallation I decided to cut it off and just have 3 mounting points instead. Without that mount, the installation took only 5 minutes and it slid back in easily. I had to do a LOT of wiggling and cussing to remove it. Mine is a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.7L.

@@APDTY Thinking about it some more, and I think that it's possible to remove and replace it as long as you pull back on the carpet and on the gray sound mat under the carpet. The plastic mount kept catching on the plastic mat, but it didn't occur to me to move the carpet at the time.

note that if you change the timing belt it is recommended to change the water pump also.

@@MICHAELRGRIMES of course

well as the vehicle gets hold and reaches 100,000 plus miles you going to run into those issues and its mostly maintainence issues. Parts do expire and the car won't run forever if you don't address the problems the vehicle is having.

Labor time for just doing the evaporator core is 5 hours

BlackCat 56 yeah evaps are no fun on most any vehicle, even getting paid full price, most techs hate doing this job

@@APDTY Thats why you certified techs are left to do the dirty job that your ordinary uncertified do it yourselfer mechanic can't do.

if you have not already done the repair contact me. I just did this a couple of days ago.

Baustin McManus yes it is very similar,

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Are you talking about the bracket at 58:31? He does remove one bolt through the grill, and another from underneath the car. If there were any other bolts, then I don't remember cause this was a few years ago.

I think I'm going to try stop leak for the core first. i don't want to use it, but it's worth a try. I didn't pay much for the vehicle.

@@Chubbycat747 stop leak doesn't do much but make a mess out of your coolant and clog up the core i wouldn't recommend it but for a car that is dirt cheap and is not worth spending the money on is ok.

heater core hoses on engine side are located around the middle-lower area of the firewall

BlackCat 56 we don’t charge labor but to give an idea, the prices vary but this is usually well over $1000 dollars and probably around $1500-$1600 at most shops

@@APDTY I believe it. You should charge more on labor anyway because getting to that heater core or evap core ain't no joke. Taking the dash and everything that connects to it and everything else under it like the steering column, fuse box and steel dash crossmember is a nightmare. I took my dash apart in my Hyundai 2003 Tiburon and gutted everything else all the way down to the a/c heater unit but never touch it I wish I did just to have the experience of disassembling and assembling the a/c and heater unit. I did this just because I had to go and rewire and organize the harness under the dash plus I had to repair the badly cracked plastic in the dash with fiberglass and resin because after 19 years of heat cycling in the cabin causes the plastic to be frail and brittle, this is underneath the dash you don't see it and also the plastic mounting points where you mount the dash in the car break. Yeah those dashes that they built for the tiburon on the 03-08 models suck ass.

I knew it cause its not in the middle the evaporator

yeah right whatever what Hyundai are you talking about?

Shaik Basha we hate doing these long hour jobs but if we get one or we will video it!!

John Jones yes that is an option, thanks for watching!!

Unfortunately This type of labor is very common on many vehicles when an evaporator needs to be replaced, I almost quit automotive repair when I was a full time AC Tech as I did Dodge caravans almost every week and they are 12-16 hours of labor, I was getting paid full price and still did not want to do the job,

Japanese low end cars tend to be easy as pie evaporator replacement jobs. I have an European assembled Suzuki Wagon R and all it takes to get the evaporator box off is two screws and a bowden cable inside, and three bolts in the engine bay, and voilà, the evaporator box slides off of the heater unit and comes out of the footwell. Could do the whole thing blindfolded. Heater core is dash off, however. By the way the evaporator is 16 years old and still no leaks. The only leaks so far were the TXV o-rings (easy as pie job too) and a relief valve on the compressor...

Laraki Kato, you have noooo idea until you actually work on it. Its easier said than done.

@@APDTY I feel for you, you have to use every once of your body muscle to fight with that dash and what not and feel it the next day.

@@teravolt6113 Some cars are easier to work on depends on how and where they design and locate the a/c units. In this video their working on a Hyundai Santa Fe which is no walk in the park.

Виталий Тихомиров we assume Uber talking about the in cabin air filter, if no engine air filter for that long, then you have some very good luck if no engine damage, thanks for watching and commenting, we do appreciate it.

@@APDTY Sure cabin filter since you disassembled AC unit. Your video seems to be the first on RU-vid on the topic. So personally I have seen two AC filter slots in santa fe and both were empty.

how?????

@@elliotna5370 take out the glove box then remove all the wire carefully and put them aside! Disconnect the ac lines from the engine side remove 3 bolts and wiggle the box… then thing that is going to come out is the evaporator and fan assembly box!! Took 1 hour

many people do scrap there vehicle when they have an evaporator fail, it is this bad on many vehicles, some are easier though.

@@APDTY especially when its a Hyundai!

well thats what you expect for having someone do it for you. Try doing the job yourself its a nightmare ain't an easy job and is labor intensive I understand why shops charge a lot to do an a/c evaporator core or heater core replacement. Parts are cheap its the labor that cost more because of the time and effort to do the job I can see on a mechanics point of view. I would charge a lot labor too depending on how deep job I get into to replace a part.

Oh yeah believe it buddy

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