Whether you want to cool down in summer time, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars has grown to be an almost necessary feature lately. But what if the air conditioning in an Dacia Lodgy isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely the question we will try to answer on this page. First, we’ll look at the various problems that can prevent the air conditioning in your Dacia Lodgy from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to fix this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Dacia Lodgy NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Dacia Lodgy is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Dacia Lodgy air con
One of the fairly general clues that can alert 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 defective air conditioning system, it can be permanent or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To find a solution to this failure, we recommend you to browse our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Dacia Lodgy.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Dacia Lodgy
One of the other symptoms that can inform 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 signify a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite hard to spot without complex mechanical expertise, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can result in your air conditioning no longer generating cold. There are several possible motives to do 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 Dacia Lodgy
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Dacia Lodgy 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 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 RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Dacia Lodgy THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to observe the most important motives of a Dacia Lodgy 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 complex, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not always the best idea, supposing that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. However, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before performing any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Dacia Lodgy, don’t think twice to look at our dedicated content on this subject matter.
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 Dacia Lodgy costs about 500 euros with labor.
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