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My A/C was smellin' kinda funky so I wanted to check the drains underneath the car... kinda hard to find, especially if you don't know what they look like, but I was happy to see two puddles underneath the car after running the A/C... my drains were clear, might try running some Lysol through the intake.

To find and check your 9-5's A/C drain hoses:

-Turn on the car, push AUTO on the ACC, and set the temp to LO (all the way down)
-Your reference point (front to back), when looking at the door, is a point about one third of the way back of the total length of the door (crude ASCII sketch below)
-From the side of the car, using this reference point, look underneath it, about 12-15 inches inboard
-There's one drain on the driver's side, and one on the passenger side.
-You should see water dripping out after the A/C's been running for a minute or two... if you put your hand over it you can also feel some air coming out (provided you put your ACC on LO which maxes out the fan)
-If the drains are blocked carefully use a Q-tip to clean them out

(bad ASCII sketch of the driver's side door showing the landmark)
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X <---------- look underneath the car here (about 1/3 of the way back)

The drain looks like this when viewed from the side:


posted by 24.46.48...

• A/C drain hose location (pic), Jason 0W-40, Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:55:01 <-- Viewing This Message
  • oops (pic), Jason 0W-40, Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:57:08
    • Looks kinda sexy- LOL, -gotta get out more!!(nm), AeroWagn, Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:43:34
    • No, that's the spy camera for the "black box" checking, SWEDECAR , Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:08:28
      • HA!! (n/m), Jason 0W-40, Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:15:20

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