AC Issues - Think Shop screwed up
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8th Gear
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AC Issues - Think Shop screwed up
I need some opinions.
I have a 2001 with 43,000 miles on it. I have had no issues but now the dreaded "cooling on passenger but not on the driver side" issue has cropped up. So I read through the threads and felt that this was a low charge/freon issue. So I took the car out of the garage and drove it to work with me yesterday and thought I would just drop it off at lunch and get the old freon evacuated and refilled. Keep in mind the cooling was fine just only on the passenger side as I mentioned. Now I pick it up after lunch and the things is cooling like it should all the way home. I park it in the garage and then this morning I thought well might as well take it for a drive today. Now not only is it not cooling the drivers side it is not cooling at all. So any thoughts on this? I am thinking the guy at the shop overcharged, Or left something loose. Or do I have a bigger issue? It would seem to me that if the thing was cooling on one side before the recharge then after the fact It would not go COMPLETELY out.
Thoughts?
I have a 2001 with 43,000 miles on it. I have had no issues but now the dreaded "cooling on passenger but not on the driver side" issue has cropped up. So I read through the threads and felt that this was a low charge/freon issue. So I took the car out of the garage and drove it to work with me yesterday and thought I would just drop it off at lunch and get the old freon evacuated and refilled. Keep in mind the cooling was fine just only on the passenger side as I mentioned. Now I pick it up after lunch and the things is cooling like it should all the way home. I park it in the garage and then this morning I thought well might as well take it for a drive today. Now not only is it not cooling the drivers side it is not cooling at all. So any thoughts on this? I am thinking the guy at the shop overcharged, Or left something loose. Or do I have a bigger issue? It would seem to me that if the thing was cooling on one side before the recharge then after the fact It would not go COMPLETELY out.
Thoughts?
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8th Gear
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It is kicking on. I do hear it. I turned it on high and then you can hear it engage and then like while breaking let up and then disengage.
The AC light is on and not going on and off on the panel. No codes either
The AC light is on and not going on and off on the panel. No codes either
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Just a word of advice to everyone - if one side or the other blows cold, it's NOT a refrigerant or compressor issue. Cold air out of some outlet means the compressor is running and there is a reasonable amount of refrigerant in the system. Please do not add refrigerant if this is the case - you will do damage to the system. If you evacuate and recharge the system, you will just be throwing your money away.
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Just a word of advice to everyone - if one side or the other blows cold, it's NOT a refrigerant or compressor issue. Cold air out of some outlet means the compressor is running and there is a reasonable amount of refrigerant in the system. Please do not add refrigerant if this is the case - you will do damage to the system.
The evaporator is starved for liquid at the top, and that is where the the driver side gets its cooling. The passenger side uses the bottom of the coil where plenty of freon is available.
Get a re-charge kit with a gague and hook it up and turn the ac on high and check the low side pressure. Add freon to bring the pressure up to normal for the outside air temp. Next step...find the leak.