Aircon water (condensation) puddles - ever come a cropper?

[Blue_SV650S]

It is summer time and therefore people have their air-con on full blast in their cages.

When at a set of lights - particularly where traffic has been a bit dense, it is fairly common to see a puddle or two under air-con cars when they pull off ...

So a bone dry hot sunny day, grip everywhere ... you approach a roundabout - with a green light - and just in the braking/turning zone you find yourself riding over big splodges of water!!

Has this caught anyone out?!!?
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[cyberglass]

Cant say i have ever seen it before. I though air con was a sealed system ?.

Maybe its just exhaust water??
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[27cows]

Not actually come a cropper but near several times I bloody hate cars
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[L4Isoside]

never knew about that!!

[Blue_SV650S]

[L4Isoside]

Makes sense.. will be on the look out for it now lol

[panrider_uk]

Never seen it before.

Must be sat for a long time to condense enough for a puddle.

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[Itchy]

Nah air conditioning systems generally do leak water, my dad's hyundai he took it in to the dealers thinking it was leaking something.

In HK where taxis etc have air con on all day you can see pools of water at the taxi stands.

Around older buildings they are supposed to be routed to a drainage pipe, and legally they aren't allowed to let it leak. You walk around Jordan or Kwun Tong and there are so many condensing air conditioners it is like rain..

Coincidentally I'm fixing an air conditioner later today, they have a condensation tank and a heater inside to evaporate the water like fridges do sometimes, the heater is broken so I'm just hooking up perma siphon to it.
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[Irn-Bru]

Only cars I see this with is Rovers, but it's usually water pissing out of the exhaust
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Nope, and never really seen/noticed it before.

Would assume there are much more important things to look out for, such as lorries and blind people.
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[Charlie]

Have seen it a lot, often when the motorway was at a standstill and people are getting out walking etc...

You'd have to be pretty unfortunate to crash from riding over one though, they aren't normally that big..
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[Stelmer]

My previous work cars had Air Con which I had to get regassed as not many people use it. Daft really as opening the windows uses similar amounts of fuel anyhow. You don't need it on recirculate either.

When working I used to sit in the car with the A/C on full when having lunch in a carpark. Plenty of times I used to get people coming upto me saying that I had a leak.

I did notice that it took a good 10 mins to get a proper puddle, not just a damp patch on the road though. After an hour, it becomes a stream if you're parked on an incline.

[Blue_SV650S]