A/C Drainage

[Phimosis]

First off, two weeks into a heat wave, I’m impressed with the Mavericks A/C performance.

My concern is every vehicle I see has the typical condensation puddle underneath. Not me, bone dry. I’ve checked the cabin air filter, footwells and ran my hands across both sides of splash guards underneath vehicle and everything is dry.

Where is it going? I can only think it’s blocked or dripping on an exhaust component. If blocked wouldn’t A/C performance be affected?

Advice from anyone who has had this issue would be appreciated.

I have an FX4 and it drips on the ground like a normal car. But it has a factory metal skid plate. If yours has the fabric engine splash guard, it totally makes sense that it gets absorbed into the splash guard, then evaporates, or redistributes enough that it has random drips in different spots, instead of a bunch of drips in the same spot.

I would be willing to spend 0 minutes of my time trying to figure out where the condensate is going.

You do have a warranty. If it really worries you, take it to the dealer.

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[HeyBales]

Here's the location from the Evaporator shell, the bottom hole.
What you see faces the firewall.
The top left rectangle is the outside air intake under the cowl that feeds into the air filter behind the glove box.
I think you can see that big plastic tap hole under the air filter if you take the glove box all the way out.
Gives a sense of where you should feel water if it is NOT going to the outside.
Just to the left of the air filter housing area, perhaps to the left of the fuse box area a bit.
But really if no moisture is seen from that area on the outside above the shield, look there.
Hey - if they had problems getting the seal to the air intake correct to keep water out, whose to say they couldn't screw up this seal and keep water from getting out.
That gray area inside the blue, is the incoming/outgoing lines to the evaporator coil - you should see that on the outside of the firewall in the engine bay.
Not sure how well you can see down to the side of it for water actively coming out a tad farther down.