Battery box

[PJC]

I have just had the pleasure of changing my battery - what a 'kin nightmare! All done apart from finding a 12" long clear plastic tube on the floor that I believe used to be alongside the other clear tube that comes down the inside of the wing and exits just by the Anderson connector

It looks like the piece of tube that is now disconnected goes up through a hole in the top of the battery box to a place I can't access.

Any ideas what this connects to and whether it will cause any grief in the future if I don't reconnect it?

Cheers

Paul

[canski]

If you have AC it could be the condensate drain from the cooler matrix tray. DF

[nawarne]

In/Around the battery cradle, you do have 2 off drain tubes.

The one that exits via small hole in the heater blower motor cover (and sounds like the one you refer to) is - as mentioned the a/c evaporator matrix (condensate)drain. (allows condensed water to drain out of the compartment)

The other tube drains the heater matrix compartment - quite important as the flap stepper motor is in this compartment, so you don't want water sloshing about near the stepper motor and its electrical connections. This tube just comes straight out of the top grp of the battery compartment.

Both tubes are just a push fit over an aluminium top-hat type of ferrule epoxy glued into the base of each compartment.
Nick