If you want to cool down in the summer, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in vehicles is becoming an almost necessary feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Mercedes Classe A isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly 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 Mercedes Classe A from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to handle this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Mercedes Classe A NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Mercedes Classe A is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Mercedes Classe A air con
One of the fairly basic signs that can inform 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 locate a remedy to this failure, we recommend you to read our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Mercedes Classe A.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Mercedes Classe A
One of the other symptoms that can inform you to a not working 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 verify for any suspicious noise). This noise could indicate a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite hard to notice 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 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 Mercedes Classe A
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Mercedes Classe A 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 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 Mercedes Classe A THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to observe the main triggers of a Mercedes Classe A air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the various 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, supposing that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. Even so, 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 Mercedes Classe A, don’t hesitate to look at our focused on 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: based 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 Mercedes Classe A costs about 500 euros with labor.
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