diff --git a/pkg/api/serialization_test.go b/pkg/api/serialization_test.go
index 67dbcc4802f..c70cb7ffba9 100644
--- a/pkg/api/serialization_test.go
+++ b/pkg/api/serialization_test.go
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/util"
 
-	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/expapi"
-	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/expapi/v1"
+	// TODO: enable when exapi problems are fixed #13083
+	//_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/expapi"
+	//_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/expapi/v1"
 
 	flag "github.com/spf13/pflag"
 )