SelfLevel SUSP.INACT warning appears...why?

[Patryk1098]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

Yes the compressor has a dryer built into it. If that doesn't engage, or just dies, you will get a lot of moisture in the system.

Its a compressor thing in general. Figure it like this. The compressor sucks in air, we know that. Air has moisture. Moisture will collect. One way to get rid of moisture is to drain it, somewhere low in the system.

This would be a good thing do to if there was a low place in the system that could be opened up. I doubt that there is, so the system uses a dryer, I can't see this working to well though, and it is probably the cause of all these part failures in the suspension.

I was afraid you'd say something like that. So basically, to reset the system to its "new" state, I'd have to take out each air spring and the compression chamber, evacuate all air and water from each component, then re-install it. That'd probably mean I'd have to replace the compressor to get a new dryer.

The water won't come out before the air because it'll be resting at the bottom of each component.

What about replacing the compressor (to ensure the dryer's working), waiting until the summer when temps get up and then completely evacuating the system. With dry air coming in and hot temps, that should help some of the water evaporate and exit the system. I suppose if that actually worked, I could just raise and lower the car using the air-ride system itself over a few weeks repeatedly; raise the car, let it sit for a day, drop the car, repeat.

Am I stretching here? Just thinking out loud.