Tdi Air Con Pipes

[wackojackouk]

Hi guys

 

I have an air conditioning specialist coming to check our my air con on Thursday. It has been regassed but made no difference and in fact I could hear the gas escaping albeit slowly later on.

 

Anyway I spoke to the specialist who has been recommended to me on the phone the other day and he sounded quite knowledgable (I hope he is) and after describing the problems etc I had he said he would be able to tell what was wrong when he saw the car. All of a sudden he said "by the way is it a TDI?" and then went on to say that a common problem was the pipes breaking/fracturing due to vibrations and he has fixed quite a few of these because of this.

 

Just wondering if anyone else has heard of this before and is it easy to replace a pipe or two? - finally are we talking

[Mirez]

As is exits the compressor, the pipe loops down and back up on itself, changes to flexipipe, into a small expansion vessel and then joins another just under the drivers headlight. Its at the loop that they normally fail - some literally snap in two.

 

IIRC its a little over

[tim-spam]

Pipes fracturing is not particularly common. Far more common is the condensor leaking from the dryer cap - there's a plastic cap on the top which can let water in, which then corrodes the housing around the dryer cap. If you lever out the plastic cap, you will be able to whether or not it's been leaking.

[Bigjeeze]

I had the pipe develop a leak just on the loop as it comes out of the comnpressor. That was 3 years ago. The new pipe then cost just over

[marinabrid]

we had 2 galaxys and both had the air con pipe leak in the same place, just where the pipes run aling the chassis leg as they go to the dryer, this is the ml1 version, there is a p clip fastening the pipe to the body and both leaked from the clip area, poor design if poss, remove the p clip and protect the area.

[suzuki91]

mine has just been repaired, the pipe as described failed