Engineers at GM should be ashamed of themselves on this design. What were they thinking or not thinking. Every engineer that worked on this design should be made to go out in to the shop and do this job themselves (assuming they know how to handle wrenches and such!) This job will cost nearly $3,000 at a dealer. Come on Man!
jzgsk the same thing is wrong with my2012 Chevy Camaro, it seems like it’s a common thing that happens to the Chevy Camaro so I’m confused why it’s not a recall
Everybody has been cutting the box for the replacement of the blend door. I believe cutting the box is the best way in the cheapest way. Because the blend door at some point will break again. Chevrolet should have a recall on that
@@michaelreese4098 Search RU-vid about that blend door. I’m a master certified technician. My wife owns a 2012 Camaro. Blend blend door broke. I cut the side of the box made a access panel. Took me about an hour. Now if it breaks again I can change it out in five minutes.
@@samdyson465 I'm having this same problem. Do you have a video where I can have it done myself? I was told it was my thermostat. Replaced them and they were not the problem.
Waaaaaay too much trouble. Just cut a hole in the driver side of the heater box, down by gas pedal. Remove the broken door, insert a new one, reglue the piece you cut out.
EXACTLY!!! The only reason ANYONE would do this is a mechanic trying to milk a job ticket or the dealership going by the book which should be an option if that's what you wanted and could afford it.
Look at other RU-vid videos on blend door repair.You do not have to remove the dash.Fix it under the driver's side dash with a cut out of the actuator panel.You can do it yourself.
I’ve seen other ways to fixing this problem without doing all of this. I will just go on the side of driver side and cut it from underneath the dash. This is too much for a person at his house garage to undue for this problem.
Yeah, most I have seen blow colder on the driver's side once broken, hotter on the passenger. To confirm, when the car is warm turn to heat and you will not get a change in temp.
I'm glad someone figured out a easier way to get this done besides ripping out the entire dash for such a simple issue. The. Entire. Dash. Including. Windshield. craziness
QUESTION: am in the process of doing this repair and have hit a snag. The shaft on the actuator motor won’t align with any position that I can adjust the newly installed blend door. It's just slightly off but enough where I can’t even re-bolt the piece on. I’m thinking I can reset with a 9V battery, but can’t find the pin assignment to test. (GM Part # 92215208/ACDelco Part # 15-74128) Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you for your videos!
So I got this done at the dealership in mid March and took the 3 weeks idk why. I recently noticed mold on the carpet around my floor mats could this be from a bad seal on the windshield?
It's possible that the seals from the drain were not installed properly. The AC evaporator creates water after having the AC on for a while. Instead of the water draining to the outside, it could be draining inside. I would take it back to the dealership and have it inspected.
@@MRDIAGNOSTECH definitely what I’m doing tomorrow. I didn’t drive it for a few days and then the Texas heat and humidity probably made it more noticeable
@@MRDIAGNOSTECH I’m doing a dashboard swap on my 85 Monte Carlo SS and I would like to know how to remove the passenger airbag from the dashboard? I would like to recover some of my costs from buying all of the part’s and I don’t want to damage the dash. Great job 👏 on the repair and the video. New Subscriber!!!
Just got that repaired at a dealer and it was a 1700$ repair and now 3 yrs later ac went out again smh. Call NHTSA to report the issue, the more complains on it the higher chance it will be a recall.
But if I did do it that way I definitely would have cut that bolt in half..just foolishness to have to take the window out,that bolt didnt need to be that long..
MR DIAGNOSTECH just did. Works great. Used an 8220 Dremel cordless tool to make a clean and precise cut. Sealed back off with Black HIGH TEMP RTV silicone. Saved my girlfriend, $2,300
@@juliussmith5866 We're in the same boat. I got an estimate for $2,000, just because of labor time not so much the replacement part. I'm leaning towards DIY with my local mechanic man for half the cost. Are you in CA?
Ac would blow hot air spent almost 3 grand under car warranty 2012 Chevy Camaro week later got car back ac condensation up the ass pissing everywhere and it now fried the radio
Gosh was that steering column a bit... I mean pain to get put and in. 🤣🤣 and stupid custom radio made life suck for a bit hahaha. But worth the experience. Oh yea ps. There's two bolts under the dash above the blove box that holds the air bag in that needs taken out b4 the dash cover will move.
Why dont you just look at your temp gauge? If that confuses you too much, use your hands to reach down and, idk, touch the hoses to see if they are hot.. i mean, that's cheaper than throwing parts at a problem and hoping they fix your issue.
@@GDWBaby basically taking off 10 main bolts that hold dash in. Take seats out. Center console. Ac hoses and heater hoses disconnected , disconnect steering linkage underneath dash and some other small stuff
For anybody that has a 5th gen and your blend door goes out, PLEASE save yourself the thousands and simply do the other method which you can find on youtube that everybody here is talking about. It was done on my 2015 the other day, and took around 3 hours from start to finish, and the AC blows cold again. And if it breaks again, doing this job a second time will take an hour max.
Wow my guy, is this all I have to do to fix my blend door? Looks so easy, just tear the whole dash apart including the steering wheel. so simple thanks. But at the end you want to not follow GM rules and pull a grinder out & trim a bolt?? Why not just go under the driver side dash and cut a small incision around the blend door and take the broken piece out and put the new piece in and you’re done! Instead of doing all this mess & hours of labor for no reason
Because i dont want any hacked crap in my ZL1. Theres no pride in hacking shit. Just do it correct the first time and it'll be fine for years. These do have programmable learned limits as well. You can program them to stop just short of resting loaded on the stop. The flap is still closed all the way, it's just not forcing itself against a stop.
@@MRDIAGNOSTECH but you cut a bolt under the dash support, which is arguably saftey related. So wouldn't doing it the right way involve removing the glass.
I like my way better,takes less than a hour and if it brakes a second time its ten minutes to fix..vs paying someone nearly 2k to fix if ur lucky In one day
It is not foolish if you are doing this service for a customer on a professional level. You can cut all you want on you car, but for a customer we do the service the right way.
@@julian-H47 if people want to pay for it to have it be done the right way than so be it man. He’s just making a video to show you how to do for people that don’t it cut out. Ima cut it out because Ima do it. But if I take it to the dealer or the mechanic I expect it to be done the right way not cutting into it. If you don’t like it then don’t watch the video.
