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Help Required - A/C Pump!!

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Hi All,

Last week I saw a puff of 'smoke' or steam come through my vents with a clutchy smell accompanying it with the A/C on. This caused me to pull into the hard shoulder and turn the aircon off and wait a few minutes. All returned to normal and I haven't seen the problem again, however I was scared to turn the A/C on again incase it happened. 

 

Anyway.. I finally felt brave enough to hit the A/C button and nothing happened, there was no 'click' of the relay, the engine revs didn't change slightly, absolutely nothing. More importantly the air temp did not change. 

I checked the aircon pump and it is not engaging when the button is clicked.. it does not spin at all.

Any ideas? Could this be related (surely it must be!)? - would this be a relay going or the pump failing? 

Thanks!
Matt


No sound like you have a leak if all the gas has leaked out the pump/compressor will not engage you need someone to find the leak someone that knows what thay are doing

 

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10 minutes ago, Phillip1993 said:

No sound like you have a leak if all the gas has leaked out the pump/compressor will not engage you need someone to find the leak someone that knows what thay are doing

 

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Thanks - I had it re-gassed at Kwik fit for £49 last week... think I can take it back and complain? Surely they have to pressure test the system before refilling?

 

Thay will do something call a leak test wich is done in a vacuum at -1bar wich is not good enough to find small laeks if you find a specialist thay should do a pressure test at 10bar with ofn if you go back to kwik fit dont let them put die in it as some dies will f**k the compressor

 

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@Phillip1993 Great, thanks a lot mate appreciate the help, I'll take it to a local specialist and then go complain to Kwik Fit once I have some proof that it's leaked completely!


The argument with the tests the majority of the machines do, is it tests the seals the wrong way, like@Phillip1993 said, it's a vac test not pressure test

 

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