lil_Blue_Ford
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- Butler, PA, USSA
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- Ford
- Engine Type
- V8
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- 5.0l
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- Automatic
- Total Drop
- 4”
Yup, my friend Lisa had the heater core go on her 2005 Malibu. She asked if me or my buddy Paul or both would fix it. A quick search showed that you had to rip the entire dash out plus a bunch of other stuff. We said no. The mechanic she found to do it ended up getting a real headache when the first three heater cores ordered (including one from GM) were all wrong. I was very glad it was someone else’s headache.Wait til you see what it takes to replace a heater core in some of the vehicles now. If you though pulling the dash back was bad, some of the cars require disassembly of the dash and disassembly of part of the engine compartment to get the heater core out. And the aggravating thing is it would be a 30 minute job if the manufacturer had an access panel in the plenum like they did decades ago.