If you want to cool down in summer time, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in vehicles is now an almost mandatory feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Mercedes Classe G 3 isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely the question we will try to answer in this post. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Mercedes Classe G 3 from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to fix this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Mercedes Classe G 3 NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Mercedes Classe G 3 is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Mercedes Classe G 3 air con
One of the fairly general 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 only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a remedy to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Mercedes Classe G 3.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Mercedes Classe G 3
One of the other indicators that can notify 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 dubious noise). This noise could show a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite hard to spot without advanced mechanical expertise, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can result in your air conditioning no longer producing cold. There are some possible motives for this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant fumes
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Mercedes Classe G 3
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Mercedes Classe G 3 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 concern: This will cause the device to trip.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I CORRECT THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Mercedes Classe G 3 THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to discover the most important causes of a Mercedes Classe G 3 air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the different solutions available to you . To begin with, you should know that an air conditioning system is complex, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming 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 carrying out any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Mercedes Classe G 3, don’t think twice to look at our dedicated content page 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, 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 Classe G 3 costs about 500 euros with labor.
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