A/C questions

[joshjwc9]

Ok, on my way home from Ft. Myers, about a 3 hour drive, I use the ac until my nuts are frozen which then I turn it off.

The entire trip is highway and im crusing at about 80 the whole way.

I get hot about 30 minutes after I turn off the ac and go to turn it on and it blows outside air, not heat or ac, on me. I'm like WTF?

So, I drive like that til the off ramp and turn it on again and it works perfectly..

So what is the deal? At a certain speed the ac idler clutch thing wont engage?

The a/c has worked perfectly in the two other trips I have made today after I got home.

Plus I got 24mpg at in between 80 and 90 on the interstate!

 

[urban96]

so no air was blowing out at all? odd...

did you try it on all the speed settings?

 

[Rougestang]

Hey I live in Holiday too.... anyways, I had a similar problem, but all I had to do was recharge my A/C for it to work. Since, it worked again, that can't be it, maybe becasue your engine was hot. I know that if i turn my A/C on within a couple of min. of turning the car on, it gets cold quick.... however, if its hot in the engine bay, it takes quite a bit longer to cool down.

 

[joshjwc9]

so no air was blowing out at all? odd...

did you try it on all the speed settings?

I did it on all speed settings on max and norm a/c.

It has worked since then when I was running errands the rest of today...its not the charge, but is there a restricion on the speed your car is going (RPM) and turning on the a/c or not?

 

[joshjwc9]

Hey I live in Holiday too.... anyways, I had a similar problem, but all I had to do was recharge my A/C for it to work. Since, it worked again, that can't be it, maybe becasue your engine was hot. I know that if i turn my A/C on within a couple of min. of turning the car on, it gets cold quick.... however, if its hot in the engine bay, it takes quite a bit longer to cool down.

Same here, it will take awhile but i prolly drove an hour with the a/c on norm and high speed with the same temp air as outside blowing thru the vents.

Running to dinner it was ice cold, IDK what it could be..

See you around!

 

[blackink00]

could be a CCRM going bad. the really could be engaging sometimes and sometimes not.

 

[Rougestang]

well you know me when you see it, I'm the ONLY black mustang GT with hood pins(hood almost flew off on me so I had to install them) a .357 Mag Smith and Wesson front license plate, and it say "Pacifica" right under the GT logo on the back of the trunk.... I almost forgot.. I have a really really loud exhaust too.