So today it was hot here on Long Island and rolling down my windows wasnt doing it for me since I was in town with lights, each light I would sit there and bake in the sun. Soooooo I roll them up and turn on my ac in my car, it was the first time I would use the AC since I bought the car when it was cold out. turns out the AC does not work, so I am around the corner from my dealership, and go to see what is up with the AC.

FUN PART:
Now I have dejon intake and ic piping and then a bunch of other hahn goodies with a BCP tune

They come out with my intake and say wow look at the AC line, turns out my intake rubbed up against it and the ac line is SHOT! They made me pay 65 dollers due to voided warrenty and cost for labor on this, and told me they have to order my part and gonna charge me 500 dollers to replace the hose! I didnt do it and might at another time!

So my message is if anyone has the dejon intake or is wondering about getting it, make sure you check your ac line or space them out some how.....

ALSO my rear rotors are screaching like a tin garbage can being dragged behind me and they said its normal and thats how it is! the car is at 10,082 miles! They wont help me with that....WTF! O well

Just a heads up and does anyone have suggestions on why rear rotors are supposed to sound like that (BTW their sceaching only when driving NOT WHILE BRAKING)

I am 20years old and I bought my car, not my parents. If anyone has any suggestions for me please let me know and if you have the intake, check your ac line...?





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and this is dejon's fault? might want to check ur install before u critize a product. i nevr heard of this problem before

 

that sucks...LOL and everyone swore by this intake too

 

I don't think he was blaming them, just telling people to be careful when installing it.

 

ahh you know what, maybe, but either way dejon intake or anyothers, I am just saying check your ac lines and make sure the intake is not rubbing it. I am not saying dejon is at fault I am just saying it was rubbing, other intake might be rubbing too! I had a professinal shop install everything for me and thats how it fit!

That is correct sir

 

have that shop pay for the ac line

 

Im gonna see what happens, if no one else has the problem then maybe I can put it on them, if there are other problems then the shop will tell me to STFU lol

 

I put a piece of foam rubber between the AC line and the Intake to fix that problem. If you look the stock intake hits it too when the engine moves but plastic on aluminum the aluminum will win. You might have a hole about to form in your intake too BTW. Sucks and you have to take note of things like this. Not really Dejons fault as there is really not much room for the intake to fit in there. It fits as well as it possibly can.

 

yeah, I had a professonal look at it and he said the ac line looks fine, and the rotors are FUCKED excused my french, but the dealership said the rear rotors are supposed to be like that! I know they are done my god the front is smooth and the rears play a song if I run my key up and down lol I gotta go to another dealership these guys are dumb

 

Just another reason to wait for a proper SRI to be developed ... I'm still waiting for CIA's SRI ..

 

I say you called this one Terminator. I was digging through some older threads and came across you pretty much spelling this one out as something that could happen a while back.

 

The rear brakes are a known problem. It most def should be covered under warranty.

 

I would take the car back to the shop that performed the install and have them correct it and give them the reciept from when you took the car to the dealer too, they should cover it also, any time a shop does an install they're supposed to verify proper fit and make sure nothing will rub with vibration/engine movement, and if they can't correct it they're supposed to inform you, so you ca make the call of taking it off or leave as is, either which you would still have to pay for their time/labor, but if they just left it and didn't verify which happens a lot on cars they are liable

 

Even my stock charge air tube rubs against the A/C line. What is the best way to isolate this rubbing? I had cut a piece of wire loom and wrapped the A/C line, but I suspect the heat and/or vibration will chew through that. Any ideas? Perhaps a rubber heater core hose? There's about 5 mm of clearance but I can see some mild rubbing marks. I don't want to load down the tube and push a thick rubber hose against it for fear of transmitting unnecessary vibrations.

 

leather patch held by zip ties, that's what we use on the aircrafts

 

yeah i noticed this too after i installed my dejon intake this past weekend. after some struggling i was able to push the tube above the point where it was squeezing between the intake and the engine.

more of a temporary fix, but it def. is a problem with most intakes not just dejon. there is just not enough room and clearance for the ac tube to fit comfortably with the intake. where i have the tube now it doesnt seem pinched so i think im ok for the time being.

 

I saw a 09 SS/TC in the lot where the STOCK charge air tube was JAMMED against the A/C line. I "fixed" the tube in front of the salesperson so he was kind of embarrassed that their new car was out of shape, but I noticed the lack of clearance and saw that it was jammed tight.

This problem could be easily solved at the supplier level by bending the A/C line just a tad to clear the charge air tube. It seems like someone didn't do a tolerance stack up analysis using ProE or whatever software they use now.

 

That might be a little steep to just replace an AC pipe and charge the system again....

The AC lines are very easy to replace and come sections a few feet at a time that just screw together.

 

Notice I said at the supplier level. They could have manufactured the OEM part with a small bend to give the charge air tube some additional clearance. This is a design flaw at the platform level. Someone didn't do a full tolerance stack-up and check for space claim.

 

wow so technicaly (sp?) its not my intake or dejons intake, its oem and others, so it should be under warrenty? the rotors i have to get fixed but they are dub and keep telling me I DONT KNOW WHA IM TALKING ABOUT!

 

If they see your aftermarket intake, they'll blame it for rubbing on the A/C line. However go and look at any OEM charge air tube. There's not a lot of clearance and the few I saw in the dealer lots were jammed against the A/C lines.

The rotors shouldn't be at fault, I suspect it is a combination of things and/or the e-brake was improperly adjusted at the factory. After thoroughly reading the Haynes procedure for adjusting the e-brake, I highly suspect the e-brake is a major contributor to rear pad / rotor wear on the 08-09 SS/TC.

 

what if I pop a stock 08 or 09's hood and show the clearance and rubbing, then say fix my **** lol

 

Thank you for noticing. I tried to inform everyone with the Dejon intake about how to avoid this potential problem.

 

I thought there was a TSB from GM about the AC line rubing on the stock intake, no?

 

Terminator, I'm gonna check my setup again, but I believe I saw that and was able to mount the intake high enough to clear the A/C line. I'll post up and let yous know, I think the only rubbing was on the plastic cap.