My 2008 Hyndai elantra AC works fine but the heater only works on the driver side. Luke warm on passenger side
HYUNDAI is driver on left side USA?
your are barking up the wrong tree, the heater core is at 180f+
so there is no reason at all to be in the engine bay period.
we can Cal also IR gun the 2 firewall tubes to core and see 180f
and both hot means the core is working 100%
one side hot told you the heater core if fully hot so believe it.
what fails is simple the dampers.
called blend damper doors and motors.and 3 causes
the service manuals shows the tests. easy if your read it.
1: damper shaft (hinge) turns fully and free is good.
2; then we test the damper motor, see if it swings fully or not.
if not it is bad, if dead, it is dead or controls are dead. to it
3: testing the controls is harder, lots more. but in the manual I refuse to reprint,
we must test all doors there dampers.
mode failing,
recircc/fresh air door
blind door
some cars have 2 blind doors, left and right. like jeep commanders do.
there are 4 damper here, top to bottom in SM
floor door
vent door
temp door
defrost door
there is 12 part I see there, a floor door leaver but AC cold works so not that.
I see no dual blend damper. on this car
is heat good to all other ports, even glass defrost up top.
now the strange stuff, in fact just happened to me, costy
the cores can clop up 2ways. both inside hot water and outside fins or both, in such a way as only one side makes heat,
I used a bore scope CA'M to find mine, and right side was packed on green rust on the heater core. to be honest , the distrubution boxes
here can be partitioned oddly, and cause what I had wrong above
on my car , the blend door hinge is split bug is ganged, and if the center hinge breaks I will loose all heat to right side.
a $2000 fix too. 10 hours labor.
so doing all tests is what matters, and guessing not.
my post shows all the ways i've seen,
in some case parts that need to be seen can not,
there are youtube posters showing drilling 8mm holes casings to view doors with Bore scopes. Camera.
for dead doors.(damper or 1/2 dead)
or this kids stuff wads of papers into vents?
if AC fails or is weak make sure the drain is not cogged up or evap core goes underwater and fullyfails or just half fails.. or floods the floors.
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