A/C issues

[Fastazzevo]

I had my a/c drained and recharged (retrofitted) at a shop and it works kind of. It used to not get cold. Now it gets cold, but somtimes will stop and blow out hot air. Much more noticeable when I come up to a light and sit there or in stop and go traffic.

I'm not an A/C guru, but have read up on some things.

Do you think its leaking or the compressor just going bad? Or anything else?

 

[95blackGsTurbo]

Here are a few quick references you can try and get back. Feel the lines, the line from the compressor to the condensor infront of the radiator should be hot with the A/C on. The line from the condensor to the metering device should be warm but not hot. The line from the meter device to the evaporator should be cold. It should be the one that is coldest and sweating. The line from the evaporator back to the compressor should be cool but not frozen like the other line. Let me know if any of those are off. Also check your condensor to see if a bunch of fins are bent or anything. Sounds like my car but I have a 3" FMIC and my A/C sucks at idle but once air gets to it, it's fine. Sounds like a condensor problem though. If your line from the evaporator to the compressor is warm then that is your problem.

 

[Fastazzevo]

Here are a few quick references you can try and get back. Feel the lines, the line from the compressor to the condensor infront of the radiator should be hot with the A/C on. The line from the condensor to the metering device should be warm but not hot. The line from the meter device to the evaporator should be cold. It should be the one that is coldest and sweating. The line from the evaporator back to the compressor should be cool but not frozen like the other line. Let me know if any of those are off. Also check your condensor to see if a bunch of fins are bent or anything. Sounds like my car but I have a 3" FMIC and my A/C sucks at idle but once air gets to it, it's fine. Sounds like a condensor problem though. If your line from the evaporator to the compressor is warm then that is your problem.

Ok, thanks. I will check that hose,

That is the big hose on the drivers side. I will also check the fins, but I don't it is damaged. This car is pretty immaculate besides this AC issue. If it is warm, could it possibly be a leak and not the compressor itself?

Thanks for the info.

 

[95blackGsTurbo]

It could be due to a leak but it wouldn't get cold again when you started moving though. You can spray all your hoses down with soapy water with the A/C on kinda like a boost leak test to see if you can see any bubbles. When they charged your A/C, any good shop, would have put dye in the system. Call the shop and see if they did as well. The line you are looking for goes from the compressor to the evap. It's the thing that looks like a heater core and it bolted on the other side of the firewall by the battery, feel that line anywhere from there to the compressor. It's behind the motor.

 

[Fastazzevo]

yeah they put the dye in there. I remember him telling me that. I'll take it too him and have him put on his cool lil shades.

Thanks,