Air Con

[289garage]

Had my air con recharged at the start of the summer, but really didn't make any difference.

I have a MK2 TDDI Ghia, would anyone have any ideas what the problem might be and can suggest a fix?

 

Thanks

 

Bill

[chromedome]

Make a pot of tea and do a search. Be prepared for a long night and a lot of reading.

[gregers]

count your blessings you havnt asked about the aux heater.lol

[xavier]

That's next week, looking at the weather forecast! Mine fired up the other day, bit smokey but then seemed fine. Aux heater, not air con. Have yet to sit in a mk2 where it works.

[bigdave982]

Mine works!! Cost 350 quid to get it working tho☺☺

[SilverBeast]

Mine both work!

 

Air con cost £160 to fix a broken pipe and regas.

 

Aux Heater I ended up buying a used one that had only had 6 months of service before being removed from previous vehicle, as my original seems to have a faulty controller PCB.

 

I suggest a VCDS-Lite lead from ebay for under £10 and the free VCDS-Lite software from RossTech for starters as this should help with the diagnosis for just about all your electrical systems (apart from immobiliser I think).

[tezerez]

Hi Silverbeast,

£160 sounds good as opposed to what I usually hear. I see you are in Otley, I'm in Bramley, LS13, where did you go?

[SilverBeast]

I used a mobile specialist who came out to do it in my garage.  I saved some money by doing the mechanical strip down/reassembly (to provide access) myself.  Details the top posting here

 

He found the leak, which a couple of other places hadn't been able to while he was regassing my wife's Fiesta. Measured up what was needed and came back a couple of weeks later to fix it.

 

More details of what was done part way down this thread.

[tezerez]

Thanks, will keep in mind (for when my boat comes in........ And there's isn't a dock strike on)