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Old 02-16-2010, 09:19 AM
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2006 Accord v6:

Wife says the air coming out of the passenger side vents is not warm. Also said no air coming through the floor vents. Any ideas on what to check?
 
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Old 02-16-2010, 11:43 AM
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Change the direction of the air (floor / dash / etc) to see if you can hear the motors running (pretty quiet) and moving the air-direction doors. Done any work in the dashboard where you might have inadvertently unplugged some wiring?
 
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Old 02-16-2010, 01:59 PM
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thanks. no recent work in the dash. Are the doors just under the dash?
 
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Old 02-16-2010, 03:17 PM
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#7 & 8 are the temperature motors for driver & passenger.
 
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Old 02-16-2010, 07:30 PM
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Jim,Does that set up run off vacuum lines? I dont know how the car is built,but on other cars I have repaired,sometimes the problem was a busted or cracked vacuum line somewhere,preventing the doors from moving into the correct position.
 
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Old 02-17-2010, 10:38 AM
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all the vents are working fine. The heat air did seem a little cool to me. I did notice the antifreeze was at the "min" mark. Could this cause the heater air not to be real warm??
 
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Old 02-17-2010, 11:05 AM
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Those are electric motors. Older Accords probably used vacuum-motors, like most cars did back then. Don't know when they changed, but I had a 1998 & pretty sure it had electric motors.

Low anti-freeze can do it, but to be sure, check anti-freeze level in the actual radiator. There's a few reasons why the radiator can be low while the reservoir is full.
 
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Old 02-17-2010, 01:00 PM
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I popped the cap to the radiator and it is to the top, but the reservoir is on "min" . I squeezed the upper radiator hose and it pushed some anitfreeze out of the radiator (cap off). Is that normal?
 
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Old 02-17-2010, 05:37 PM
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Normal. You can add some to the reservoir knowing that the actual radiator is full.

If you squeeze the radiator hoses (cold engine & radiator cap closed), usually you can feel & hear whether there's any air in there. There should be no sloshing sounds.

After opening the radiator cap, usually takes 1 or 2 drives to work the little air bubbles out to the reservoir. If the radiator were low so you needed to add some, there's a bleeder valve at the thermostat where you can release trapped air. Hondas do not like any air in the cooling system.
 
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