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Offline n13cah

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Aircon
« on: April 24, 2009, 10:58:20 am »
Aircon stopped blowing cold air on Wednesday.
Just had a call from dealers and the clutch in the compressor has failed.

Not bad for 8 months old!
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 11:48:30 am »
Exactly the same happened to me on wednesday as well - very spooky
Car booked in the VW when I am back from a business trip in a few weeks
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 12:42:59 pm »
Strange both being Pirelli's!
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2009, 01:15:29 pm »
Quote from: n13cah on April 24, 2009, 12:42:59 pm
Strange both being Pirelli's!
Maybe a bad batch of compressors...
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2009, 03:43:34 pm »
this has happened to me! only i dont fink it worked in 1st place. (only had 8 weeks) rang dealer (not 1 i bought from) n they wanna charge me £100 for a re-gas & £55ph labour!!! yeah right!  its still under warrenty but said aircon isnt covered!!! 
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2009, 03:59:38 pm »
Just collected car and seems it is a know problem, not just on Golfs.
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2009, 01:30:15 pm »
if the name of the aircon is zexel or valeo they WILL stop functioning. Be sure the replacement is from Sanden. VW are aware of the first two makes being bad pumps
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2009, 01:39:09 pm »
Quote from: danishmkvgti on April 25, 2009, 01:30:15 pm
if the name of the aircon is zexel or valeo they WILL stop functioning. Be sure the replacement is from Sanden. VW are aware of the first two makes being bad pumps
Is this something I could check by peering in the engine bay?
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2009, 07:49:12 pm »
You made me go and look  :laugh:

Not easy, but i have a spare zexel, which i took a couple of pictures of. Look at how the wheel looks at the side pointing away from the pump itself, it's all black, then look at the wheel in the picture from the engine bay, there's a shiny spring on the side of the sanden pump, amazingly i succeded it focusing on the right part in my first shot.
I hope this helps you. My zexel pump went after 140.000km, no warrenty left.

Zexel


Zexel


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Re: Aircon
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2009, 08:17:15 pm »
Just had a look. If I looked in the right place, there's no metal spring.
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2009, 08:20:41 pm »
VW should/might change if you still have warrenty, they have a tbe on it
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2009, 08:30:02 pm »
whats 'tbe'?
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2009, 08:33:27 pm »
Quote from: stealthwolf on April 25, 2009, 08:30:02 pm
whats 'tbe'?

I think he meant TSB (technical service bulletin)
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2009, 08:41:21 pm »
VW should issue a recall and free replacement on these substandard air con units...
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Re: Aircon
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2009, 08:50:01 pm »
Apparently it's not the compressor that goes bad but the enagement switch! Unfortunately the switch is integrated into the compressor so instead of a cheap fix (replacement of the switch), you have to change the whole compressor.
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