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 lately. But what if the air conditioning in an Porsche Macan 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 Porsche Macan from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to fix this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Porsche Macan NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guide with the symptoms that can explain that the air conditioning of your Porsche Macan is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Porsche Macan air con
One of the fairly common 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 car, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a defective air conditioning system, it can be permanent or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To find a solution to this malfunction, we recommend you to read our guide dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Porsche Macan.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Porsche Macan
One of the other signs that can warn 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 verify 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 difficult to identify without elaborate mechanical knowledge, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer making cold. There are several possible motives to do this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- Non-functioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Porsche Macan
Finally, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Porsche Macan 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 works:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure problem: This will trigger 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 Porsche Macan THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to discover the main motives of a Porsche Macan air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the various solutions available to you . To begin with, you should know that an air conditioning system is complicated, and that wanting to perform repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming that you are sure of the source of the breakdown. Even so, here are the main possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before executing any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Porsche Macan, don’t think twice to look at our focused on content 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: 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.
Replacing the air conditioning gas compressor on Porsche Macan costs about 500 euros with labor.
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