- AC vents won't stay put
- Posted by Heather
Hi,
Can anyone offer any suggestions on a remedy for keeping the AC vents
in my 2000 Camry in place? They have lost their friction and do not
stay put in an 'intermediate' position; they want to roll all they way
to the 'bottom' or 'top', to rest against the mechanism holding them
in the dash. They obviously need to be tightened but even the most
automotive savvy friends of mine have said that gaining entry into the
dash to accomplish this is no small beans worth of work.
Thanks for any feedback!
Heather
- Posted by Mark A
"Heather" <heather@tadland.net> wrote in message
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Is the car still in warranty (36 months/36K miles)? Even if it is not, take
it to a dealer and sweet talk the service manager and ask him if he has any
idea what the problem is, and whether it can be easily fixed.
- Posted by Richard Duane
We tried the dealer "fix" and it didn't work worth a darn.
Then I took a piece of velcro with adheasive on the backsides,
threw away the flat half/side, and stuck small 1"x 1/2" pieces of the
other side to the top-inside of the each vent hole so that the "loops"
on the velcro stuck down against the movable vanes. The loops put
just enough pressure on the vanes to keep them from flopping around,
but not so much that they were not easly movable.
Sparkey
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:40:31 -0600, "Mark A" <ma@switchboard.net>
wrote:
- Posted by Jack
Just curious, what was the "dealer's fix"??
"Mark A" <ma@switchboard.net> wrote in message
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- Posted by Sparkey
The dealer hited that they would install small clips in each vent,
but acknowledged before they even started that it probably would
not help; and it didn't. (I couldn't see anything)
Sparkey
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:12:16 GMT, "Jack" <jj@aol.com> wrote:
