Console AC vent loose
 

Does anyone else here have this issue. Say your driving and you hit afew little bumps or cracks in the road and before you know it, one of your center console AC vents is pointed down?

anyway to make them more firm into place? When i turn the Heater on, the vents get nice and tight, but no heat, or worse, AC turned on, the passenger side gets really loose.

Carlos,

I have the same problem.

No idea on a fix, it is annoying though :mad:

Nick

do they also get very firm when you turn on the heater?

Im thinking of cutting a washer out of some paper thin pastic and trying to wedge it between the outside hinge and the housing of the vents.

Not sure about firming up when the heater is on...

If it is cold enough that I need to use the heater full blast, I usually take my other car ;)

Nick

Well, if i fix it, ill let you know how it did it. Ill try to make 2 of whatever i make to firm up the movement and mail it to you.

Ill probably use my spare Petco Pals card (keychain version) and cut it into tiny C shaped washers.

Thanks, CJ !

Nick

I've had the same problem. The way the vent is located in there is that the plastic peice coming from the outside of the vent that you see is a funnel that inserts into the duct that is behind the console.

They outline this funnel with foam that overtime corrodes and becomes brittle and eventually gets blown away whenever the heater/ac is on.

What I did to fix this was get foam double sided tape (3M Brand). Took out the vent (it's held on by about 4 screws behind the two plastic panels that house the switches and behind the radio and accessory controls) and cleaned off the old factory foam. Then took a strip of the double sided foam tape (about 1.25 feet length) unpeeled one side of the double sided tape and left the other side still peeled. I stuck the 1.25 ft single strip of double sided tape on the edge of the funnel that inserts into the ducts.

The foam of the double sided tape acts the same as the black foam porsche used. This prevents it from rattling and cured my problem.

Here is a link to the double sided tape.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/itemDetailsRender.shtml?ItemId=1613135136

You can find them at any Ace Hardware or Home Depot for fairly cheap. I'd recommend 3m because they're heat resistant and the adhesive is better quality with 3M products.

If anybody gets confused or if this is common problem for boxster owners I can post up pictures as a DIY.

KT1, thanks for the advise but we arent talking about the foam ring around the tunnel on the back of the ac vent, we are talking about the vent blades themselves that are loose, they will sometimes point down on there own after driving on bumps on the road surface.

Oh...well then I look like a moron. :p

haha, its ok, i've done that too.