To those who are wondering, this system is the exact same thing as in the 2003 Sonata with the 2.7l. Really interesting to see how many parts were used on both vehicles. Now, for the Sonata, as long as you follow the rest of the box's removal process (I.E the two bolts on the expansion valve to release the evaporator from the rest of the system, unplugging the plugs) You do not need to remove the dash to remove the box. Take a 10mm w/ swivel and extension and remove the 2 upper bolts above the box and then remove the 2 bottom ones just like in this video. remove the metal bracket on the side where the glovebox's mount/cover is at so it's more accessible. Now, simply wiggle it out slowly. It only took me 3 minutes after I had a good idea of what I was doing.
@@tommygomez5343 You can go with pretty much whatever brand because they will all be manufactured to the design, but just make sure they have additional corrosive resistance added to them as that is one of the biggest killers of Evaperator Cores
Dude! Awesome!! I couldn’t find any info or videos on how to remove the core from the sonata. I’m going to help a friend with an 03’ sonata and wanted to know what kind of mess I’m stepping into
THANKS. What a GREAT help. I watched your video twice and then successfully only moved the horizontal bar (removed all bolts including those pesky ones by the wiper motor) and the vertical support (at the floor only) and pulled the metal support bar back far enough to get the evaporator end of the heater unit out. I also had to remove the right kick and move the wires a little to get enough room. I'm sure it sped up the job quite a bit. It was actually quite an easy repair. Your video made it a LOT easier as I knew what was coming. No more leaks and ice cold A/C.
gjb149 awesome!!!! Great job, we love when one of our videos helps someone do a job themselves and if you did this job, you can be very proud of that and consider yourself very competent at this type of thing, most people do not have the patience. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
i did the exact same thing 2009 Kia Sportage, identified the leak via UV dye, i wish i had this video or knew of it at the time it would have saved me a lot of headache. But this video will work for 2009 Kia Sportage incase anyone was wondering.
According to a mechanic on Hyundai-Forums.com, there is no need to take the dash apart to replace the evaporator core. You can just unbolt it, disconnect the wiring harness, and wiggle it out of there. I'm assuming you'll have to remove the glovebox to see what is being done, but it's a lot better than taking everything apart!
Boom10ful I would make sure that comment is from this exact model, if so, I’d love to see a video of that as the Hyundai repair manual as well as the labor guide and flat out logic makes that seem impossible, on this exact model anyway,
@@APDTY Got it done last night. It's hard to take it off without removing the dash, but it is possible. The bottom right plastic mount for the evaporator box makes it VERY hard to take off or put back the evaporator box in, so for the reinstallation I decided to cut it off and just have 3 mounting points instead. Without that mount, the installation took only 5 minutes and it slid back in easily. I had to do a LOT of wiggling and cussing to remove it. Mine is a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.7L.
@@APDTY Thinking about it some more, and I think that it's possible to remove and replace it as long as you pull back on the carpet and on the gray sound mat under the carpet. The plastic mount kept catching on the plastic mat, but it didn't occur to me to move the carpet at the time.
Thank you for the video. I have a love hate relationship with my 07 santa fe. I love that I own it outright, and no matter what happens it seems to just keep running. But man so many things happen. Battery terminals corroding out, heater core failing, fuel sensor failing, burning oil, neutral safety switch going bad, the list goes on! I beleive it is due for a timing belt change and spark plugs (130k miles, I sure as hell hope the previous owner/s already did it at 60k). I think I'm just going to drive her out without doing anything than oil changes until it dies. Not worth getting rid of, not worth putting a dime more into.
well as the vehicle gets hold and reaches 100,000 plus miles you going to run into those issues and its mostly maintainence issues. Parts do expire and the car won't run forever if you don't address the problems the vehicle is having.
I’ve changed this without 3/4 of this labor, you literally can just it from under the glove box. Your wasting time if you take the steering wheel off to take this evaporator . But thanks for showing the way shops can make their way towards the 2000$ charge
Dude shut the hell up have you done this on a Hyundai Sante Fe which is shown on this video? You can't just simply pull the a/c evap from under the dash or glove box because the dash is in the way and the steel dash crossmember is blocking it preventing it from removal. You can probably do 3/4 of the labor on another type of car but not this one so you need to think before you give out a negative comment like this.
@@1998gst4611 yeah I did , and literally all I did was bend the tab on right hand side of the glove box. Saved myself 10 hours and actually just bent it back and no one could tell. But yeah I should shut the helll up helping out saving time. Dick head
i need to ask.. why you add oil inside condenser? if not the same oil you add after do the vaccum when you add freon.. you know the oil you add directly in the low side? im confuse
Yikes. Heater core was bypassed on mine when I bought it. Couldn't believe the aftermarket manual when it said I had to take dash out, but here it is. This is gonna sucketh.
@@Chubbycat748 stop leak doesn't do much but make a mess out of your coolant and clog up the core i wouldn't recommend it but for a car that is dirt cheap and is not worth spending the money on is ok.
BlackCat 56 we don’t charge labor but to give an idea, the prices vary but this is usually well over $1000 dollars and probably around $1500-$1600 at most shops
@@APDTY I believe it. You should charge more on labor anyway because getting to that heater core or evap core ain't no joke. Taking the dash and everything that connects to it and everything else under it like the steering column, fuse box and steel dash crossmember is a nightmare. I took my dash apart in my Hyundai 2003 Tiburon and gutted everything else all the way down to the a/c heater unit but never touch it I wish I did just to have the experience of disassembling and assembling the a/c and heater unit. I did this just because I had to go and rewire and organize the harness under the dash plus I had to repair the badly cracked plastic in the dash with fiberglass and resin because after 19 years of heat cycling in the cabin causes the plastic to be frail and brittle, this is underneath the dash you don't see it and also the plastic mounting points where you mount the dash in the car break. Yeah those dashes that they built for the tiburon on the 03-08 models suck ass.
What he didn't show was removing two more bolts just under the hood latch bracket. it is very close and almost impossible to remove without removing the front bumper (which isn't that hard, btw). If you try to remove those two bolts by not removing the bumper, you will curse heaven and earth... The condenser bracket has the front steel structure (that the plastic bumper is clipped to) bolted to it with these two infamous bolts that I am talking about. Did you guys run into this snag when you were doing the deinstall? I notice that there was no reference to them and when you pulled the bracket up and out, the bolts had been removed. Otherwise the bracket would not have come up.
Are you talking about the bracket at 58:31? He does remove one bolt through the grill, and another from underneath the car. If there were any other bolts, then I don't remember cause this was a few years ago.
Is this similar to a 2005 Santa Fe? I am doing this same job soon for a friend and have yet to see the vehicle, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
hello! thank you for sharing that video. I bought a Hyundai Tiburon basic model 2.0 L engine with a bypassed heater core. At that moment I did not know how difficult to replace the heater core was going to be. You mentioned that some vehicles are easier to fix than others. My question for you is, Based on your knowledge how much do you think it will cost to fix it?
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you dont have to remove the dash on these just the glove box and peel the carpet back on the passenger side. I worked at hyundai for 14 years and did a hundred of these
@@elliotna5370 take out the glove box then remove all the wire carefully and put them aside! Disconnect the ac lines from the engine side remove 3 bolts and wiggle the box… then thing that is going to come out is the evaporator and fan assembly box!! Took 1 hour
Where are the heater core lines located from the engines side?? Like from the radiator lines goes to the connector that goes to the firewall?? Where extaly is it located??
It seems so ridiculous to me, that this part is so close to the cabin air filter and so close to where you could just take it out from under the glove box, and yet you have to dismantle the entire interior of the dash and some of the exterior too just to replace it?
Unfortunately This type of labor is very common on many vehicles when an evaporator needs to be replaced, I almost quit automotive repair when I was a full time AC Tech as I did Dodge caravans almost every week and they are 12-16 hours of labor, I was getting paid full price and still did not want to do the job,
Japanese low end cars tend to be easy as pie evaporator replacement jobs. I have an European assembled Suzuki Wagon R and all it takes to get the evaporator box off is two screws and a bowden cable inside, and three bolts in the engine bay, and voilà, the evaporator box slides off of the heater unit and comes out of the footwell. Could do the whole thing blindfolded. Heater core is dash off, however. By the way the evaporator is 16 years old and still no leaks. The only leaks so far were the TXV o-rings (easy as pie job too) and a relief valve on the compressor...
@@teravolt6113 Some cars are easier to work on depends on how and where they design and locate the a/c units. In this video their working on a Hyundai Santa Fe which is no walk in the park.
Виталий Тихомиров we assume Uber talking about the in cabin air filter, if no engine air filter for that long, then you have some very good luck if no engine damage, thanks for watching and commenting, we do appreciate it.
@@APDTY Sure cabin filter since you disassembled AC unit. Your video seems to be the first on TH-cam on the topic. So personally I have seen two AC filter slots in santa fe and both were empty.
Tell you what I would cut the hoses from both heat and air pull the motor from the air conditioning and run with no heat or air. Complete waste of time to do all that . If you need wheels of course.
well thats what you expect for having someone do it for you. Try doing the job yourself its a nightmare ain't an easy job and is labor intensive I understand why shops charge a lot to do an a/c evaporator core or heater core replacement. Parts are cheap its the labor that cost more because of the time and effort to do the job I can see on a mechanics point of view. I would charge a lot labor too depending on how deep job I get into to replace a part.
To those who are wondering, this system is the exact same thing as in the 2003 Sonata with the 2.7l. Really interesting to see how many parts were used on both vehicles.
Now, for the Sonata, as long as you follow the rest of the box's removal process (I.E the two bolts on the expansion valve to release the evaporator from the rest of the system, unplugging the plugs) You do not need to remove the dash to remove the box. Take a 10mm w/ swivel and extension and remove the 2 upper bolts above the box and then remove the 2 bottom ones just like in this video. remove the metal bracket on the side where the glovebox's mount/cover is at so it's more accessible. Now, simply wiggle it out slowly. It only took me 3 minutes after I had a good idea of what I was doing.
What brand Evaporator Core did you go with?
@@tommygomez5343 You can go with pretty much whatever brand because they will all be manufactured to the design, but just make sure they have additional corrosive resistance added to them as that is one of the biggest killers of Evaperator Cores
Dude! Awesome!! I couldn’t find any info or videos on how to remove the core from the sonata. I’m going to help a friend with an 03’ sonata and wanted to know what kind of mess I’m stepping into
Amazing how engineers over overcomplicate things . This stuff should and could be easy access on every car. But good job 👍
THANKS. What a GREAT help. I watched your video twice and then successfully only moved the horizontal bar (removed all bolts including those pesky ones by the wiper motor) and the vertical support (at the floor only) and pulled the metal support bar back far enough to get the evaporator end of the heater unit out. I also had to remove the right kick and move the wires a little to get enough room. I'm sure it sped up the job quite a bit. It was actually quite an easy repair. Your video made it a LOT easier as I knew what was coming. No more leaks and ice cold A/C.
gjb149 awesome!!!! Great job, we love when one of our videos helps someone do a job themselves and if you did this job, you can be very proud of that and consider yourself very competent at this type of thing, most people do not have the patience. Thanks for watching and commenting!!
Я из России! Новосибирск! Огромное спасибо за такое подробное видео! У меня Санта фе 2003 года, 3,5 литра!
Спасибо за видео! Выкурил уже половину пачки сигарет, смотрю уже третий раз. Снял панель. Буду менять радиатор отопителя.
i did the exact same thing 2009 Kia Sportage, identified the leak via UV dye, i wish i had this video or knew of it at the time it would have saved me a lot of headache. But this video will work for 2009 Kia Sportage incase anyone was wondering.
Thanks for this video, I just did this myself, saved $1010. Pretty sweet. It was a nightmare though.
Aaron Smith awesome awesome awesome!!! This is a difficult job so you should be very proud of accomplishing this!!
u should try taking the whole dash apart
According to a mechanic on Hyundai-Forums.com, there is no need to take the dash apart to replace the evaporator core. You can just unbolt it, disconnect the wiring harness, and wiggle it out of there. I'm assuming you'll have to remove the glovebox to see what is being done, but it's a lot better than taking everything apart!
Boom10ful I would make sure that comment is from this exact model, if so, I’d love to see a video of that as the Hyundai repair manual as well as the labor guide and flat out logic makes that seem impossible, on this exact model anyway,
I have to take mine apart anyway. I'll let you know if it works!
@@APDTY Got it done last night. It's hard to take it off without removing the dash, but it is possible. The bottom right plastic mount for the evaporator box makes it VERY hard to take off or put back the evaporator box in, so for the reinstallation I decided to cut it off and just have 3 mounting points instead. Without that mount, the installation took only 5 minutes and it slid back in easily. I had to do a LOT of wiggling and cussing to remove it. Mine is a 2003 Hyundai Santa Fe 2.7L.
@@APDTY Thinking about it some more, and I think that it's possible to remove and replace it as long as you pull back on the carpet and on the gray sound mat under the carpet. The plastic mount kept catching on the plastic mat, but it didn't occur to me to move the carpet at the time.
OMG, This was a long story, thank you very much for sharing it with us.
Bornaz thank you for watching and commenting!!
Thank you for the video. I have a love hate relationship with my 07 santa fe. I love that I own it outright, and no matter what happens it seems to just keep running. But man so many things happen. Battery terminals corroding out, heater core failing, fuel sensor failing, burning oil, neutral safety switch going bad, the list goes on! I beleive it is due for a timing belt change and spark plugs (130k miles, I sure as hell hope the previous owner/s already did it at 60k). I think I'm just going to drive her out without doing anything than oil changes until it dies. Not worth getting rid of, not worth putting a dime more into.
note that if you change the timing belt it is recommended to change the water pump also.
@@MICHAELRGRIMES of course
well as the vehicle gets hold and reaches 100,000 plus miles you going to run into those issues and its mostly maintainence issues. Parts do expire and the car won't run forever if you don't address the problems the vehicle is having.
I’ve changed this without 3/4 of this labor, you literally can just it from under the glove box. Your wasting time if you take the steering wheel off to take this evaporator . But thanks for showing the way shops can make their way towards the 2000$ charge
Dude shut the hell up have you done this on a Hyundai Sante Fe which is shown on this video? You can't just simply pull the a/c evap from under the dash or glove box because the dash is in the way and the steel dash crossmember is blocking it preventing it from removal. You can probably do 3/4 of the labor on another type of car but not this one so you need to think before you give out a negative comment like this.
@@1998gst4611 yeah I did , and literally all I did was bend the tab on right hand side of the glove box. Saved myself 10 hours and actually just bent it back and no one could tell. But yeah I should shut the helll up helping out saving time. Dick head
@@1998gst4611 This is a guy that did it on an 2004 Santa Fe, not removing the dash. th-cam.com/video/3SYMXX7v-o0/w-d-xo.html
@@1998gst4611 Dude, YOU. ARE. INSANE.
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this is what hell would be like to me. doing this job over and over, forever.
BlackCat 56 yeah evaps are no fun on most any vehicle, even getting paid full price, most techs hate doing this job
@@APDTY Thats why you certified techs are left to do the dirty job that your ordinary uncertified do it yourselfer mechanic can't do.
how much time did it take to do this job and how much money do you charge for it???
i need to ask.. why you add oil inside condenser? if not the same oil you add after do the vaccum when you add freon.. you know the oil you add directly in the low side? im confuse
Happy To see this
Good job guys
I don't beleive this!!! to replace on piece inside we have to unmount all the part of the car !!! it is crazy!!!
HOLY CRAP! WHAT A PAIN IN THE AZZ!!! GREAT JOB THO I PRAISE YOU. HOW MUCH IS THE LABOR ALONE TO HAVE THIS DONE AT A SHOP?
Labor time for just doing the evaporator core is 5 hours
What did you use on the mounting bolts for the dashboard.
Hi there ist bosible 2013 sentafe without opning dashbord?
it's a wonderful video
Yikes. Heater core was bypassed on mine when I bought it. Couldn't believe the aftermarket manual when it said I had to take dash out, but here it is. This is gonna sucketh.
I think I'm going to try stop leak for the core first. i don't want to use it, but it's worth a try. I didn't pay much for the vehicle.
@@Chubbycat748 stop leak doesn't do much but make a mess out of your coolant and clog up the core i wouldn't recommend it but for a car that is dirt cheap and is not worth spending the money on is ok.
CHRIST, HOW MUCH FOR THIS JOB.
BlackCat 56 we don’t charge labor but to give an idea, the prices vary but this is usually well over $1000 dollars and probably around $1500-$1600 at most shops
@@APDTY I believe it. You should charge more on labor anyway because getting to that heater core or evap core ain't no joke. Taking the dash and everything that connects to it and everything else under it like the steering column, fuse box and steel dash crossmember is a nightmare. I took my dash apart in my Hyundai 2003 Tiburon and gutted everything else all the way down to the a/c heater unit but never touch it I wish I did just to have the experience of disassembling and assembling the a/c and heater unit. I did this just because I had to go and rewire and organize the harness under the dash plus I had to repair the badly cracked plastic in the dash with fiberglass and resin because after 19 years of heat cycling in the cabin causes the plastic to be frail and brittle, this is underneath the dash you don't see it and also the plastic mounting points where you mount the dash in the car break. Yeah those dashes that they built for the tiburon on the 03-08 models suck ass.
The guy that interjected half way through the video, needs to take the damn flip flop out if his mouth. "Uh dih dih dih duh duh do"
thx much 4 this video
Why do this? What was the reason for replacement. Did the A/C fail? Is this the same as the heater core?
Nice job. 👍
What he didn't show was removing two more bolts just under the hood latch bracket. it is very close and almost impossible to remove without removing the front bumper (which isn't that hard, btw). If you try to remove those two bolts by not removing the bumper, you will curse heaven and earth... The condenser bracket has the front steel structure (that the plastic bumper is clipped to) bolted to it with these two infamous bolts that I am talking about. Did you guys run into this snag when you were doing the deinstall? I notice that there was no reference to them and when you pulled the bracket up and out, the bolts had been removed. Otherwise the bracket would not have come up.
Are you talking about the bracket at 58:31? He does remove one bolt through the grill, and another from underneath the car. If there were any other bolts, then I don't remember cause this was a few years ago.
Is this similar to a 2005 Santa Fe? I am doing this same job soon for a friend and have yet to see the vehicle, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
if you have not already done the repair contact me. I just did this a couple of days ago.
Baustin McManus yes it is very similar,
how do i remove a 2006 hyundai sonata dashboard removal?
whats the labor cost to do that ?
I'm considering buying a couple of fans instead 😊
I have 2003 Santa Fe I have a cabin filter in mine I need to change sway bar bushing
hello! thank you for sharing that video. I bought a Hyundai Tiburon basic model 2.0 L engine with a bypassed heater core. At that moment I did not know how difficult to replace the heater core was going to be. You mentioned that some vehicles are easier to fix than others. My question for you is, Based on your knowledge how much do you think it will cost to fix it?
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Hi my dear...
I have a 2008 model kia sportage. My car exploded heating honeycomb. I need your help to dismantle this piece.
you dont have to remove the dash on these just the glove box and peel the carpet back on the passenger side. I worked at hyundai for 14 years and did a hundred of these
I knew it cause its not in the middle the evaporator
yeah right whatever what Hyundai are you talking about?
How about the heater core of 2016 Sante Fe? Do you need to remove dash for heater core replace?
Thanks
You don’t have to remove the dash to change the evaporator!!! I did it with out removing the whole thing 🙏🏻
how?????
@@elliotna5370 take out the glove box then remove all the wire carefully and put them aside! Disconnect the ac lines from the engine side remove 3 bolts and wiggle the box… then thing that is going to come out is the evaporator and fan assembly box!! Took 1 hour
Is it the same for the 2018 model ? Seems alot of people are taking off thedash
Where are the heater core lines located from the engines side?? Like from the radiator lines goes to the connector that goes to the firewall?? Where extaly is it located??
heater core hoses on engine side are located around the middle-lower area of the firewall
Hyundai i 20 evparateor change video please
Shaik Basha we hate doing these long hour jobs but if we get one or we will video it!!
It seems so ridiculous to me, that this part is so close to the cabin air filter and so close to where you could just take it out from under the glove box, and yet you have to dismantle the entire interior of the dash and some of the exterior too just to replace it?
Unfortunately This type of labor is very common on many vehicles when an evaporator needs to be replaced, I almost quit automotive repair when I was a full time AC Tech as I did Dodge caravans almost every week and they are 12-16 hours of labor, I was getting paid full price and still did not want to do the job,
Japanese low end cars tend to be easy as pie evaporator replacement jobs. I have an European assembled Suzuki Wagon R and all it takes to get the evaporator box off is two screws and a bowden cable inside, and three bolts in the engine bay, and voilà, the evaporator box slides off of the heater unit and comes out of the footwell. Could do the whole thing blindfolded. Heater core is dash off, however. By the way the evaporator is 16 years old and still no leaks. The only leaks so far were the TXV o-rings (easy as pie job too) and a relief valve on the compressor...
Laraki Kato, you have noooo idea until you actually work on it. Its easier said than done.
@@APDTY I feel for you, you have to use every once of your body muscle to fight with that dash and what not and feel it the next day.
@@teravolt6113 Some cars are easier to work on depends on how and where they design and locate the a/c units. In this video their working on a Hyundai Santa Fe which is no walk in the park.
Hmm, no air filter. I recently discovered in Santa Fe 2005 that my wife drove the car thirteen years without an air filter.
Виталий Тихомиров we assume Uber talking about the in cabin air filter, if no engine air filter for that long, then you have some very good luck if no engine damage, thanks for watching and commenting, we do appreciate it.
@@APDTY Sure cabin filter since you disassembled AC unit. Your video seems to be the first on TH-cam on the topic. So personally I have seen two AC filter slots in santa fe and both were empty.
Tell you what I would cut the hoses from both heat and air pull the motor from the air conditioning and run with no heat or air. Complete waste of time to do all that . If you need wheels of course.
John Jones yes that is an option, thanks for watching!!
OMG, I would be looking to scrap the car, can you imaging the Labour cost.
many people do scrap there vehicle when they have an evaporator fail, it is this bad on many vehicles, some are easier though.
@@APDTY especially when its a Hyundai!
well thats what you expect for having someone do it for you. Try doing the job yourself its a nightmare ain't an easy job and is labor intensive I understand why shops charge a lot to do an a/c evaporator core or heater core replacement. Parts are cheap its the labor that cost more because of the time and effort to do the job I can see on a mechanics point of view. I would charge a lot labor too depending on how deep job I get into to replace a part.
Oh! heck no, you got to be kidding me..cthu...in my Italian voice, get outta here...
Oh yeah believe it buddy
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what a nightmare
this is the wrong way to do this . you obviously have never done this before
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