If you want to cool down in the summer months, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars is now an almost mandatory feature nowadays. But what if the air conditioning in an Opel Vectra 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 Opel Vectra from cooling down, and finally, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to handle this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Opel Vectra NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Opel Vectra is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Opel Vectra air con
One of the fairly general clues that can inform you to the fact that your air conditioning is not functioning 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 only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a remedy to this failure, we advise you to read our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Opel Vectra.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Opel Vectra
One of the other indications that can inform you to a malfunctioning 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 show a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite difficult 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 making cold. There are several possible causes for 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 Opel Vectra
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Opel Vectra 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 bring about 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 Opel Vectra THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to notice the main motives of a Opel Vectra air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to show you the different solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is complex, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not always the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Even so, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before carrying out any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Opel Vectra, don’t hesitate 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.
Changing 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: depending 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.
Changing the air conditioning gas compressor on Opel Vectra costs about 500 euros with labor.
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