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 cars is becoming an almost obligatory feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Mercedes Benz GLA Class isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly 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 Mercedes Benz GLA Class from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to fix this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Mercedes Benz GLA Class NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Mercedes Benz GLA Class air con
One of the fairly known indicators 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 perpetual or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a solution to this malfunction, we recommend you to browse our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Mercedes Benz GLA Class.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Mercedes Benz GLA Class
One of the other indicators that can inform you to a failing 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 reveal a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite difficult to identify 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 several possible motives for this loss of pressure, and these are listed below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Mercedes Benz GLA Class
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Mercedes Benz GLA Class 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 concern: This will bring about 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 Mercedes Benz GLA Class THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to observe the main motives of a Mercedes Benz GLA Class air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the various solutions available to you . To begin with, you should know that an air conditioning system is complicated, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not constantly the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. However, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before executing any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Mercedes Benz GLA Class, don’t hesitate to check out our dedicated content 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 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.
Replacing the air conditioning gas compressor on Mercedes Benz GLA Class costs about 500 euros with labor.
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