If 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 required feature lately. But what if the air conditioning in an Nissan Almera isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly 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 Nissan Almera from cooling down, and finally, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to fix this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Nissan Almera NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can justify that the air conditioning of your Nissan Almera is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Nissan Almera air con
One of the fairly common signs that can notify 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 defective air conditioning system, it can be perpetual or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To locate a solution to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Nissan Almera.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Nissan Almera
One of the other signs 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 check for any dubious noise). This noise could reveal a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite tricky 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 generating cold. There are some possible motives to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed below:
- Leakage of refrigerant fumes
- Non-functioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Nissan Almera
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Nissan Almera 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 functions:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure problem: 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 Nissan Almera THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to notice the most important triggers of a Nissan Almera air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the different solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is complicated, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not constantly the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. Nevertheless, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before performing any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Nissan Almera, don’t hesitate to look at our dedicated 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 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 Nissan Almera costs about 500 euros with labor.
If you wish more guides on the Nissan Almera, go to our Nissan Almera category.
