As posted in a previous thread - AC stopped working a little while ago. Blows warm air all over, had some historical codes B0361, B0367, and B0441 (I think that last one is right, from memory). Again though, no difference between driver and pass side. Tried fuse pull, battery disconnect, etc., can hear things moving but no change. Compressor seems to turn on when the AC button is pressed. Saw a current code for B0361 after one of the battery disconnects, so figured something with the doors.

My neighbor owns a shop, he took it in but doesn't have the right equipment to scan a corvette (I guess it's extra to buy the software or whatever), but he said he got cold air to blow for a few seconds while playing with things, put gauges on it and said the system seemed full and compressor seemed fine. I bit the bullet and took it in to the dealership...

They just came back and said bad compressor, $1500 to fix. Doesn't seem right to me, expected something with the actuators because of the codes. I hate to have a new compressor put in, only to find out it was either low somehow or the doors still need to be unstuck or replaced and more $$$.

Any advice?
Scott

 

I'm hot - literally and figuratively!!!! Picked up the car from the dealer, something didn't seem right, they didn't see any of the codes in the car with their scanner, and my compressor was presumably working fine for the past 2 weeks - until now...

Now I get in my car, push the AC light, and it goes out after a few seconds. Try again, same thing. This has NOT been happening the whole time I had AC issues, it was blowing warm air but would stay on. I could hear it pop on, now I hear nothing. So now I think magically I have an issue with my compressor where there was no issue before. Maybe the mechanic screwed something up and broke the compressor, maybe it was intentional, and I give it a .001% chance that it just magically conked out at the dealership. Maybe I'll be lucky and somehow the tech bled the system out of refrigerant and that's why the compressor is not popping on. Sucks...

Now they want me to bring it back in tomorrow. No charge, but what are they going to do next? What's my recourse on something like this? It's not like they are going to take my word for it and fix the now broken compressor for free. They've done decent work on both my cars in the past, but this is a new guy I'm dealing with and frankly didn't like him from the moment I met him, just a little too slick for my liking. Not saying anything was done intentionally, but the explanations didn't make sense and they didn't pick up any codes which I can get at right through my dash! They weren't even aware that you could pull the codes manually...

Help!!! Any previous experiences like this, what should I do or say tomorrow?

 

Sorry to hear of your problems. I had a similar issue with our '99 AC.

Do a search on the forum for actuators and you can find a couple really good threads on the topic. You will be able to dsiscern whether you have "freon" issues or an actuator issue. There is strong arguments that the actuator will be the primary culprit. You may need new "freon" (R34?) but that could be just a sympton not the end-all fix.

See this thread http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...actuators.html

I don't know why they could check the codes. There are a couple that will specifically call out the actuators, something to do with "ground".

I had the actuator replaced and all was fine. I did have the compressor evacuated and re-filled several weeks later to get colder output.

 

You don't need him to do the scan..you already did it..

That's how you got those codes. All of you're codes are AC actuator codes, this is a very common problem on these cars....if you have any questions post up..when you were able to get those codes, that is the same as doing a scan for your AC codes. We are just lucky cause we can do it through the DIC.
I would attempt to reindex your actuators first. I just had to do this job myself and my reasoning behind the re index before re purchase is because you can easily re index one actuator, bolt it back on(2 little bolts), hook it up and see if the codes are gone.

You don't have to put a bunch of other crap on before you get to see if you fixed it. If not, just grab whichever side actuator(whichever side the codes wont go away on) and throw the new one in.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...errerid=228945