If you want to cool down in summer time, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in vehicles is now an almost obligatory feature lately. But what if the air conditioning in an Subaru Crosstrek 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 Subaru Crosstrek from cooling down, and finally, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to handle this issue.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Subaru Crosstrek NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the symptoms that can justified that the air conditioning of your Subaru Crosstrek is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Subaru Crosstrek air con
One of the fairly general signs that can alert 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 faulty air conditioning system, it can be lasting or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To find a solution to this failure, we suggest you to browse our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Subaru Crosstrek.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Subaru Crosstrek
One of the other indicators that can warn you to a not working 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 suspect noise). This noise could show a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Actually quite tricky to spot without advanced mechanical knowledge, 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 below:
- Leakage of refrigerant gases
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Subaru Crosstrek
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Subaru Crosstrek 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 functions:
- Compressor pulley HS: The compressor will be out of power and the circuit will be stopped.
- Overpressure problem: This will cause the device to trip.
- Faulty sensor: As with overpressure, the air-conditioning system will switch to safe mode.
HOW DO I CORRECT THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Subaru Crosstrek THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to discover the most important motives of a Subaru Crosstrek 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 constantly the best idea, assuming that you are sure of the origin of the breakdown. Even so, here are the most important possible repairs and an estimate of their cost.
First step, before undertaking any major repair, clean the air conditioning of your Subaru Crosstrek, don’t think twice to look at our focused upon content page 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 Subaru Crosstrek costs about 500 euros with labor.
To find more tips on the Subaru Crosstrek, take a look at the Subaru Crosstrek category.
