If you want to cool down in the summer months, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in vehicles is now an almost mandatory feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an BMW 5 Series isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly the question we will try to answer in this post. First, we’ll look at the various problems that can prevent the air conditioning in your BMW 5 Series from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to handle this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY BMW 5 Series NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guide with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your BMW 5 Series is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my BMW 5 Series air con
One of the fairly basic indications that can inform you to the fact that your air conditioning is not functioning is if you have a musty or damp smell inside your car, 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 discover a solution to this failure, we advise you to read our guide dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on BMW 5 Series.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON BMW 5 Series
One of the other indications that can inform you to a failing 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 check for any suspicious noise). This noise could reveal a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite hard to spot without elaborate mechanical skills, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer producing cold. There are several possible motives for this loss of pressure, and these are listed below:
- Leakage of refrigerant fumes
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my BMW 5 Series
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your BMW 5 Series 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.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I CORRECT THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY BMW 5 Series THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to notice the main causes of a BMW 5 Series air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the various solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is sophisticated, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming that you are sure of the source 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 BMW 5 Series, don’t think twice to look at our dedicated content on this subject.
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: depending on the position of the leak it will cost you more or less, count on average 150/200 euros, including 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 BMW 5 Series costs about 500 euros with labor.
If you want more guides on the BMW 5 Series, go to our BMW 5 Series category.
