Marvelous what you find when you crawl under a brand new caravan! The air intake vents for the air-con are under the floor, and consist of 6 circular holes 3" wide protected only by nylon insect screen. (Its a Jayco Discovery "Outback" pop-top) The dealer, when we complained, said this is quite usual, and they had never had any complaints about water/mud etc getting into the air-con via these holes. Judging by the dirty underside of our vehicle we are a bit doubtful about this!
Does anybody else have a van with this type of air-intake? Does dust and road splash get in?
-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Monday 27th of September 2010 05:59:38 PM
jimricho said
08:31 PM Sep 27, 2010
When a sales type responds with "no ones ever complained before" respond with "and the cheque's in the mail", and/or "and I caught it off a toilet seat", and/or "of course I'll respect you in the morning"
ozjohn said
08:15 AM Sep 28, 2010
I take it you have an Air Command Herron A/C. If this is the case then the installation you explained is as per Air Commands installation specifictation and I've never seen one installed any other way. Cheers, ozjohn.
BobnBev said
10:44 AM Sep 28, 2010
Any hole in the floor will let dust in, the only way we found to keep dust out was to lift the front of our 4season hatch and pressure the van, that worked to a degree.. Friends of ours have the same van and the air con has a problem, he carnt work out how they get to it..to fix the thing.. had to put a stop on the hatch to stop it being blown off..
Gerty Dancer said
01:54 PM Sep 28, 2010
Yes you are right, Ozjohn, thats the one. Thank you. Still seems peculiar, though!!
ozjohn said
04:34 PM Sep 28, 2010
Gert. I've had them in 3 vans and never experience any problem with dust or water ingress. Another point though is to clean the filters under the inside condensor (Fan) unit at least once a year. Cheers, ozjohn.
VHW said
05:31 PM Sep 29, 2010
I have actually seen a van where the owner fitted a hatch over the inlet which could be closed for travel, only thing is you wouldn't want to forget to open it or close it again when you travelled!!
Can't say I had any problems with mine underneath on the Jayco I had, checked it a few times and ran a dust pan brush over the holes which had mozzie type mesh over the holes inside, although it didn't look like it needed it.
-- Edited by VHW on Wednesday 29th of September 2010 05:32:46 PM
Gerty Dancer said
06:47 PM Sep 29, 2010
Thank you for your replies... we are reassured!
Think we might put a cover over it for the Gibb River road next year, cant use the air-con while bush-camping anyway.
Does anybody else have a van with this type of air-intake? Does dust and road splash get in?
-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Monday 27th of September 2010 05:59:38 PM
Cheers, ozjohn.
I've had them in 3 vans and never experience any problem with dust or water ingress.
Another point though is to clean the filters under the inside condensor (Fan) unit at least once a year.
Cheers, ozjohn.
Can't say I had any problems with mine underneath on the Jayco I had, checked it a few times and ran a dust pan brush over the holes which had mozzie type mesh over the holes inside, although it didn't look like it needed it.
-- Edited by VHW on Wednesday 29th of September 2010 05:32:46 PM
Think we might put a cover over it for the Gibb River road next year, cant use the air-con while bush-camping anyway.