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A/C Drain Hose Location

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Where and how to access the condensation drain hose on a 2018 Sportage?

Thanks.


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#3 ·
idle the engine with the air running, once it starts draining onto the ground, look where the drips are landing, then inspect the area immediately above that. unless of course, your drain is blocked, in which case you are just going to have to get the vehicle up on stands and take a good look around to find it.
 
#5 ·
Both of my Kias have the AC drain hose somewhere in front of the firewall, on the passenger's side. My Cadenza (for whatever reason) had the rubber hose plugged and kinked, which was absolutely no surprise due to how I live in Fargo, ND and our winters literally are capable to doing ANYTHING to a car, whether you think the area is protected from snow or not. I wiggled the hose, and it went back into the downward pointing home position and literally POURED out condensation water, the ground looked like a water balloon just exploded. All was well after that.
 
#7 ·
Well, since the evaporator (cold thing) is inside the cabin and the water (condensate from blowing warm, moist air over the cold thing) needs to go outside the cabin, I guess it is technically feasible that you could possibly touch the drain line from inside the cabin, but what you need to do is find it outside the cabin and make sure its dripping when the AC is running. If you have water in the passenger-side floor when it hasn't been raining but you have been running the AC, it may well be plugged up or kinked during assembly like TD's. In hot weather, you typically will find a patch of wet pavement under the car where it was parked after driving it. This probably is enough evidence that it is dripping. My driveway slopes up, and anytime I drive up it after using AC, and then get out and walk back down to the mailbox, I'll see a line of water where it dripped faster going uphill, which is all I need to see to know that the water is draining out. You have to figure out your own clues based on your situation.
 
#10 · (Edited)
Well, it really depends where is clogged, 1st of all, do you have an inside leak or it's dripping outside like it should? On couple of vehicles the hose can be seen from the inside of the vehicle, in many cases you unplug it from the condensator and blow compressed air to unclog it, but honestly in this vehicle I haven't had any problems with it so I haven't bothered to check.
 
#14 ·
No, I haven't found it. Had my wife take the car to the dealer to resolve. Drain was clogged, causing carpet to get soaked. She didn't think to ask him where it was located, however, they did say they fixed it from the inside, which didn't make sense to me.


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#15 ·
Ok, the issue in having with mine is that the a/c takes a while to cool. I turn on the fan with the a/c button on and everything and it takes about 30 to 40 secs to feel cool air on the vents and I'm not talking about doing this on summer under the sun, I mean in my garage or anywhere else. Gonna have to take it to the dealer soon.
 
#16 ·
Perhaps you didn't realize that there is still ambient air in the duct work, so just like an in your home central air system, the warmer ambient air has to be forced out before you begin to feel the cooler air. Additionally, and a smaller contributor, the compressor and air exchange system doesn't instantly turn the incoming air cold.

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