If 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 mandatory feature lately. But what if the air conditioning in an Mini Countryman isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely 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 Mini Countryman from cooling down, and finally, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to fix this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Mini Countryman NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the signs of illness that can justify that the air conditioning of your Mini Countryman is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Mini Countryman air con
One of the fairly general indications 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 motor vehicle, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a faulty air conditioning system, it can be lasting or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a remedy to this failure, we suggest you to read our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Mini Countryman.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Mini Countryman
One of the other indicators that can alert you to a malfunctioning 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 dubious noise). This noise could signify a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite hard to spot without elaborate 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 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 Mini Countryman
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Mini Countryman is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer working. Here are the different origins 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 bring about the device to trip.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I FIX THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Mini Countryman THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to observe the most important triggers of a Mini Countryman air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the various solutions available to you . To begin with, you should know that an air conditioning system is elaborate, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, supposing that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. Even so, 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 Mini Countryman, don’t think twice to check out our focused on article 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 auto 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 Mini Countryman costs about 500 euros with labor.
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