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 becoming an almost required feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Ram P/U isn’t cold anymore? This is precisely the question we will try to answer on this page. First, we’ll look at the various problems that can prevent the air conditioning in your Ram P/U from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to deal with this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Ram P/U NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Ram P/U is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Ram P/U air con
One of the fairly known indications 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 lasting or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To discover a remedy to this malfunction, we advise you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Ram P/U.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Ram P/U
One of the other indicators that can alert you to a not working 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 hard to identify without complex 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 some possible motives 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 Ram P/U
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Ram P/U is no longer cold just because your air conditioning system is no longer functioning. 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.
- Defective sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I RESOLVE THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Ram P/U THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been capable to see the most important motives of a Ram P/U air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the various solutions available to you . First of all, you should know that an air conditioning system is complicated, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, presuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Nevertheless, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before undertaking any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Ram P/U, don’t hesitate to look at our focused upon article on this subject.
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: 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.
Changing the air conditioning gas compressor on Ram P/U costs about 500 euros with labor.
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