Whether you want to cool down in the summer months, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars is now an almost obligatory feature nowadays. But what if the air conditioning in an Citroen Jumpy isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely the question we will try to answer in this article. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Citroen Jumpy 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 Citroen Jumpy NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can explain that the air conditioning of your Citroen Jumpy is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Citroen Jumpy air con
One of the fairly basic 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 faulty air conditioning system, it can be lasting or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a solution to this failure, we suggest you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Citroen Jumpy.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Citroen Jumpy
One of the other indicators that can notify you to a not working 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 verify for any suspect noise). This noise could show a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite difficult to spot without complex mechanical skills, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer generating cold. There are several possible causes to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Citroen Jumpy
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Citroen Jumpy is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer working. Here are the different origins 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 cause the device to trip.
- Faulty sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I FIX THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Citroen Jumpy THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to observe the most important triggers of a Citroen Jumpy air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the different solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is sophisticated, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not constantly the best idea, presuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Even so, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before carrying out any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Citroen Jumpy, don’t think twice to check out our dedicated article on this subject.
If this is not enough, bleed and refill the coolant, which should cost you around 100aine euros.
Changing 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.
Changing the air conditioning gas compressor on Citroen Jumpy costs about 500 euros with labor.
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