If you want to cool down in summer time, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars is becoming an almost required feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Acura ILX isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely the question we will try to answer in this post. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Acura ILX from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to handle this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Acura ILX NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guide with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Acura ILX is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Acura ILX air con
One of the fairly basic signs that can inform you to the fact that your air conditioning is not working is if you have a musty or damp smell inside your motor vehicle, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a faulty air conditioning system, it can be permanent or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To locate a solution to this malfunction, we suggest you to go through our guide dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Acura ILX.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Acura ILX
One of the other symptoms that can inform you to a not working air conditioner is that you experience a strange noise is coming on when you turn on your air conditioner (feel free to approach the vents to verify for any dubious noise). This noise could indicate a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite hard to spot without elaborate mechanical knowledge, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer making cold. There are some possible causes to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- Non-functioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Acura ILX
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Acura ILX is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer working. Here are the different roots of an air conditioning system that no longer functions:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure concern: This will trigger the device to trip.
- Faulty sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Acura ILX THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to observe the main triggers of a Acura ILX air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the various solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is elaborate, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. However, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before performing any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Acura ILX, don’t think twice to check out our focused on content page on this subject matter.
If this is not enough, bleed and refill the coolant, which should cost you around 100aine euros.
Replacing the air conditioning clutch: you will need to spend around 150 euros for parts and around 100 euros more for labour.
Searching for and repairing an air conditioning leak: based on the position of the leak it will cost you more or less, count on average 150/200 euros, counting the air conditioning refill.
Replacement of an air conditioning condenser: you will need to count about 200 euros.
Replacing the air conditioning gas compressor on Acura ILX costs about 500 euros with labor.
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