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Porsche 996 Heater Core
So, this fall I finally got that smell through the heater vents. I’ve owned the car for 9yrs and never had a problem but I also didn’t know if it had ever been replaced before.
Turns out it was all original! Not a bad run for the OE part! Everything is now superseded to 997 parts, but they all fit mostly the same. Pipe angle is a little flatter coming out of the core, but with the thinner 997 hoses, it just barely clears the A/C line. My recommendation is to buy the new hoses both for figment and because they’re cheap enough that it doesn’t make sense to reuse the old ones.
Take your time and you can peel up most of the putty from the top seal. The rest of it comes off with some acetone on a rag.
In all, thank goodness Porsche didn’t put this under the dash! It’s an incredibly straight forward job and can be done in less than a day. I made a weekend out it though and dove into the “while I’m in there syndrome” lol…
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