Chicken Patty
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 26, 2007
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Miami,
Florida
Recently I had a refrigerant leak on my car. The shop I took it to diagnosed it was the Compressor. So compressor was replaced along with the dryer and the a/c was kicking cold! However two days later it stopped working. I took it back, refrigerant was lost again this time one of the lines was leaking, you can see the UV reactive refrigerant they used by where it was leaking. So today I went to pick it up and it was cooling perfectly fine again. half way home the car starts to feel like it gains power, then loses power and so on. Felt like if the compressor was kicking in and out. To confirm that the a/c starts to blow slightly warmer.
So now at this point I have observed that the a/c only cools correctly and the car drives fine for the first part of my drive. once it has been a few minutes it starts to do the same. I'm assuming something is causing the the high pressure side to be too high thus causing the compressor to act like it does? If that was the case, what can it be? Condenser? I do have a FMIC, but for about two years already, the a/c just started giving these issues about a month or two ago at the most. Any idea guys? Thanks.
So now at this point I have observed that the a/c only cools correctly and the car drives fine for the first part of my drive. once it has been a few minutes it starts to do the same. I'm assuming something is causing the the high pressure side to be too high thus causing the compressor to act like it does? If that was the case, what can it be? Condenser? I do have a FMIC, but for about two years already, the a/c just started giving these issues about a month or two ago at the most. Any idea guys? Thanks.