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 is now an almost required feature nowadays. But what if the air conditioning in an Peugeot 207 isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely 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 Peugeot 207 from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to deal with this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Peugeot 207 NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guide with the signs of illness that can justified that the air conditioning of your Peugeot 207 is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Peugeot 207 air con
One of the fairly general clues 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 car, 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 remedy to this failure, we suggest you to read our guide dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Peugeot 207.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Peugeot 207
One of the other symptoms that can warn you to a failing 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 show a defective air conditioning clutch or a defective customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite tricky to notice without elaborate 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 causes for this loss of pressure, and these are listed below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Peugeot 207
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Peugeot 207 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 concern: This will bring about the device to trip.
- Faulty sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Peugeot 207 THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to see the most important motives of a Peugeot 207 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 carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming 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 Peugeot 207, don’t think twice to check out our focused upon 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, 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 Peugeot 207 costs about 500 euros with labor.
If you want more guides on the Peugeot 207, go to our Peugeot 207 category.
