Whether you want to cool down in the summer, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars has grown to be an almost required feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Acura TSX isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly the question we will try to answer on this page. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Acura TSX from cooling down, and finally, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to handle this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Acura TSX NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guide with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Acura TSX is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Acura TSX air con
One of the fairly common clues that can warn you to the fact that your air conditioning is not working is if you have a musty or damp smell inside your car, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a defective air conditioning system, it can be lasting or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To find a remedy to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guide dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Acura TSX.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Acura TSX
One of the other symptoms that can alert you to a malfunctioning air conditioner is that you feel a strange noise is coming on when you turn on your air conditioner (feel free to approach the vents to check for any suspicious noise). This noise could show a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite difficult to notice without advanced mechanical skills, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can result in your air conditioning no longer generating cold. There are some possible causes for 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 TSX
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Acura TSX is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer functioning. Here are the different roots of an air conditioning system that no longer works:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure problem: This will trigger the device to trip.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Acura TSX THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to notice the main motives of a Acura TSX air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the different solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is complex, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Nevertheless, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before performing any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Acura TSX, don’t think twice to check out our focused on article 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 auto 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 TSX costs about 500 euros with labor.
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