Whether you want to cool down in the summer, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars is becoming an almost required feature nowadays. But what if the air conditioning in an Nissan Maxima isn’t cold anymore? This is exactly the question we will try to answer on this page. First, we’ll look at the various complications that can prevent the air conditioning in your Nissan Maxima from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to fix this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Nissan Maxima NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can explain that the air conditioning of your Nissan Maxima is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Nissan Maxima air con
One of the fairly general signs 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 permanent or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a remedy to this failure, we recommend you to browse our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Nissan Maxima.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Nissan Maxima
One of the other signs that can alert 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 check for any suspicious noise). This noise could signify 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 knowledge, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer producing cold. There are some possible motives to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant fumes
- Non-functioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Nissan Maxima
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Nissan Maxima 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 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 RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Nissan Maxima THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to notice the main motives of a Nissan Maxima 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 sophisticated, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not always the best idea, supposing that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Nevertheless, 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 Nissan Maxima, don’t think twice to check out our focused on 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 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 Nissan Maxima costs about 500 euros with labor.
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