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 vehicles is becoming an almost obligatory feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Toyota Highlander 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 Toyota Highlander from cooling down, and at last, we’ll check out the solutions available to you to handle this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Toyota Highlander NO LONGER COLD?
We will start our guidebook with the signs of illness that can justified that the air conditioning of your Toyota Highlander is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Toyota Highlander air con
One of the fairly known clues that can warn 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 faulty air conditioning system, it can be permanent or just present when you turn on your air conditioning. To locate a solution to this failure, we recommend you to go through our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Toyota Highlander.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Toyota Highlander
One of the other indicators that can inform 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 indicate a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite tricky to spot 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 motives for 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 Toyota Highlander
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Toyota Highlander 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 functions:
- 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 FIX THE AIR CONDITIONING ON MY Toyota Highlander THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to discover the main causes of a Toyota Highlander 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 elaborate, and that wanting to carry out repairs yourself is not always the best idea, assuming 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 performing any major fix, clean the air conditioning of your Toyota Highlander, don’t hesitate to check out our focused on 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 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 Toyota Highlander costs about 500 euros with labor.
If you need more guides on the Toyota Highlander, go to our Toyota Highlander category.
