# 2011 toyota camry evaporator replacement how to

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**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** toyota, camry\
**Created:** [September 1, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2011-toyota-camry-evaporator-replacement-how-to/107428 "2017-09-01T12:22:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![art1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@art1966](https://community.cartalk.com/u/art1966)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2011-toyota-camry-evaporator-replacement-how-to/107428/21 "2017-09-05T09:14:38Z")

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Ah, no CAF. That explains the crud, and explains why the manufacturers began using CAF.

6.5 hours, 10 hours – absolutely no ripoff. My usual estimate is that an experienced tech can do a job in half the book time, whereas it will take me double the book time. On this one, I can’t remember ever being young and enthusiastic enough to have tried it myself.

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**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2011-toyota-camry-evaporator-replacement-how-to/107428/22 "2017-09-05T13:49:59Z")

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The CAF may help in that Camry, but I never have leaves on the ones in my Ford products. I’m thinking it depends on where the CAF is. I think mine are ‘downstream’ of the evaporator.

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**Author:** ![db4690](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/db4690/32/2583_2.png) [@db4690](https://community.cartalk.com/u/db4690)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2011-toyota-camry-evaporator-replacement-how-to/107428/23 "2017-09-05T23:58:05Z")

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> [@art1966](#):
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> My usual estimate is that an experienced tech can do a job in half the book time

That depends . . .

His first time doing the job?

I doubt it

The fifth time doing the job?

Yeah, I could see that

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**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/2011-toyota-camry-evaporator-replacement-how-to/107428/24 "2017-09-06T00:33:04Z")

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Car owners can minimize the amount of leaf & dirt debris that gets into their car’s AC and vent system by occasionally shop vac’ing the fresh air intake grating, usually this is located directly below the windshield. I do it once or twice a month on my Corolla nd never had any trouble with debris jamming the blower. On my truck that job isn’t so easy to do b/c of how the fresh air intake hvac vents are configured, and I did later have a problem of debris accumulating in the vent system and causing problems. That required a lot of time and made a big mess to fix.

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