Whether you want to cool down in the summer, or help you clear the fog from your windshield in the winter, air conditioning in cars has become an almost mandatory feature recently. But what if the air conditioning in an Volkswagen Golf 5 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 Volkswagen Golf 5 from cooling down, and at last, we’ll look at the solutions available to you to handle this problem.
WHY IS THE AIR CONDITIONING IN MY Volkswagen Golf 5 NO LONGER COLD?
We will begin our guidebook with the signs of illness that can justified that the air conditioning of your Volkswagen Golf 5 is no longer cooling.
BAD AIR CONDITIONING SMELL in my Volkswagen Golf 5 air con
One of the fairly basic 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 motor vehicle, and yes, a bad smell can be a warning of a faulty air conditioning system, it can be lasting or only present when you turn on your air conditioning. To find a solution to this malfunction, we advise you to read our guidebook dedicated to bad air conditioning odors on Volkswagen Golf 5.
AIR CONDITIONING NOISE ON Volkswagen Golf 5
One of the other symptoms that can notify 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 suspicious noise). This noise could reveal a faulty air conditioning clutch or a faulty customer compressor.
LOSS OF PRESSURE IN THE AIR CONDITIONING CIRCUIT
Quite hard to notice without elaborate mechanical knowledge, a loss of pressure in your car’s air conditioning system can end result in your air conditioning no longer producing cold. There are several possible motives for this loss of pressure, and these are listed down below:
- Leakage of refrigerant fumes
- nonfunctioning air conditioning compressor
AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T WORK AT ALL on my Volkswagen Golf 5
At last, it’s possible that the air conditioning in your Volkswagen Golf 5 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 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 Volkswagen Golf 5 THAT IS NO LONGER COOLING?
Now that we have been able to notice the most important triggers of a Volkswagen Golf 5 air conditioning system that no longer cools down, we are going to present you the different 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. However, 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 Volkswagen Golf 5, don’t hesitate to look at 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.
Replacing 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.
Replacing the air conditioning gas compressor on Volkswagen Golf 5 costs about 500 euros with labor.
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