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 necessary feature nowadays. But what if the air conditioning in an Lexus ES 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 Lexus ES from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to fix this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Lexus ES NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can justify that the air conditioning of your Lexus ES is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Lexus ES air con
One of the fairly basic signs 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 permanent or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a solution to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Lexus ES.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Lexus ES
One of the other indicators that can inform 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 signify a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite hard to notice without complex mechanical skills, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can result in your air conditioning no longer making cold. There are several possible causes 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 Lexus ES
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Lexus ES is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer functioning. Here are the different origins 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 problem: This will trigger 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 Lexus ES THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to notice the main motives of a Lexus ES 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 elaborate, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not always the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Even so, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before carrying out any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Lexus ES, 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.
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: depending 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 Lexus ES costs about 500 euros with labor.
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