Air-Con Service-Service your cars AIR-CON the weathers getting hotter ?

29th November 2024/in Air-conditioning in Halifax/by Eric Roberts

Air-Con Service Summer may be here at last.

Our weather here in the UK is forecast to get get hotter this Summer. The weather companies including the BBC have said that a high pressure system is due to start building.

Although motorists are feeling the pinch.With the economy and the price of fuel. It could be a nightmare stuck in your car with the kids screaming in the back.Just because they are too hot.

We all know the feeling. Especially on roads like the A14 and M11, busy holiday destinations. Where there are always traffic jams whatever time of day. You can be guaranteed of getting caught up in a huge snarl up.

If this happens and the temperature reaches 30 degrees. Thus, you will definitely need your cars Air-Con working. Also now is time to have your Air-Con serviced.

It is no good leaving it until you are on your journey.

If you are driving on the Continent and your AC fails. It could cost you up to 10 times the price as it does here in the UK. In France.

A friend of mine , (who lives there). Always waits until he visits the UK to have his Air-Con Service. Also buys tyres and batteries, because of the price difference.Especially, between here and the other European countries.

Just out of interest.The first air con- system for a car was invented back in 1939 by Packard, in America and was the first to be fitted in the factory in 1940. The first refrigerant originally used was highly damaging to the atmosphere, and a safer gas was later used in the 1960s.

Air-Con Service

Here at Pellonautocentre in Halifax GB. We have many customers that have an annual Air-Con service. This ensures that their car performs properly all the year round.It ensures that their system works without a hitch.

This will clean out all the dirt and germs that have built up in the course of time. It will also recharge the gas as necessary. The other option would be to leave yours on until there is a drop in the temperature and performance.

This way will leave a risk of leaving yours on until there is a problem, the problem may arise with the result in a bigger repair and service bill.

Either way, in between summers, you do still need to think about your air conditioning system, we recommend that you leave yours on all through the autumn and winter, this stops the gas pressure from falling.

Most of the public do not know

that you should leave the Air-Con on all year round, but I do understand that the cars now coming out with smaller and greener engines will use more fuel with the Air-Con Service in cooler weather.

Any bad smells coming from your air- con system should be checked at your nearest Autocentre for a Car Service, if you do not know of one in your area look online for your nearest Unipart Car Care Centre, where you will get free advice on what to do with your car Air-Con System.

In the Halifax area of West Yorkshire, you can have your Air-Con Service done by experts, and should be looking to pay around £45 for a complete Air-Con service.

Pellon Tyre and Auto-centre offer car and van servicing and repairs to all makes of vehicles. Selling tyres online from our website www.pellontyres.co.uk . Using the tyre selector and choosing your tyre size. Consequently, we offer courtesy cars to local motorists. So, who need to go to work and leave their car with us for work doing. We are also an official MOT testing station.

Air Conditioning Problems: For this VW Golf ?

28th November 2024/1 Comment/in Air-conditioning in Halifax/by Eric Roberts

Air Conditioning Problems

As I have said many times, this is the time of year that we can be busy rectifying air conditioning problems on our customer’s cars. This year, we are enjoying a nice, warm, sunny summer. So, many of the new model cars have been fitted with air conditioning as standard.

Of course, then, the need for the air conditioner to work and cool the car interior has never been more important. Many of our customers also travel to continental Europe for their holidays. So a good cold-air conditioning system is imperative for a good and comfortable journey.

There are many reasons why your car’s air conditioning can fail you.

By and large, the most common is that the customer switches it off in the winter. Importantly, when summer comes, expect their air conditioning to work normally. But in over half the cases, their system will need a re-gas.

After the re-gas, other problems occur. The main problem is that if the air conditioning system is not used, then the system does not get lubricated. Consequently, this will dry out, causing common problems such as failed “O” rings and rubber hoses due to the drying-out process.

Sometimes we may get a customer who says that the car is blowing cool air into the cab but not cold air. This is usually when the air conditioning is set to high with the fans on high, but the car is still only blowing in cool air. We have all been there; you just can’t get the car cold enough?

What we do in this case is first check that the cooling fans are running

On the refrigerator condenser (the thing that looks like a radiator, usually at the front of the car’s engine), when the air conditioning system is switched on,. Naturally, checking out the condenser for any debris, such as dead leaves, dust, or insects, that may be clogging the condenser up, you would be surprised at what we find clogging the air conditioning condenser unit up?

We also check out the pollen filter, or cabin filter, Air Conditioning Problems

as it is sometimes known; if it is clogged up, we will replace it. We then check the pressures of the air con system to see if they confirm what they should be set at in the user’s manual. The condenser is a very important part of the air conditioning system.

It works the opposite way to the radiator (evaporator); it sits at the front of the car, and air is blown over the condenser, but the air soaks up the heat and then cools the refrigerant inside the air conditioning system. All this is done under high pressure; the air carries the heat out of your car, and the refrigerant converts it back to a liquid.

The liquid is then sent back to the evaporator (a low-pressure area), and the system moving from a high-pressure area to a low-pressure area forces the refrigerant temperature to perform a rapid drop, and the cycle starts all over again, supercooling the cab of your vehicle.

VW Golf had- Air Conditioning Problems

On a day last week, we had a car presented to us with this exact Air Conditioning Problems. We carry out all repairs and other work on car air conditioning systems here at Pellon Autocentre in Halifax, UK. Subsequently, the air coming out of the cab cool but not super cool. The car was a 2010 VW Golf (only 4 years old). The

The customer left the car with us, and we proceeded to connect up our air conditioning machine and re-gas the car’s cooling system. The problem was spotted right away because the car started to leak liquid from the condenser at the front of the car.

After an examination of the condenser, we found out that the car had recently had a minor bump at the front end, which consequently damaged the air conditioning condenser. In earlier times, this is what happened to car radiators; nowadays, this is where the air conditioner condenser sits, and it takes the brunt of any damage from stones or small accidents.

However, this was one of our easier jobs to do, and we replaced the condenser with a new one, re-gassed the system, and the customer and his VW Golf went on their way, with a nice cold cabin in their car.

Car Air conditioning air-con

27th November 2024/in Air-conditioning in Halifax/by Eric Roberts

Car Air conditioning brings many problems for their drivers

Car Air conditioning

Here in Halifax in the UK, we are experiencing a particularly warm and pleasant summer. We are at the moment in the middle of the main holiday season and trade can be a little hit and

miss. Many of our customers have had their cars serviced in preparation for their summer holidays, so the servicing side of the business can be a little slower this time of year.

However, one of the things that have kept us going in this hot summer is the number of cars with Car Air conditioning systems that break or have never worked for years.

The hot weather makes them dig deep into their pockets and have the air con Operating Systems serviced or repaired. The cars that come to my garage with problems are usually older cars and some come to us complaining that they are having strong smells coming from inside the car.

This is due to the Car Air conditioning system not been used often

with a build-up of nasty’s in the evaporator located just behind the dashboard, this consists of molds, fungi and bacteria, that can cause some drivers to feel ill. This problem can be remedied by using an anti-bacterial spray which should get your car back to smelling fresh again.

Unfortunately, the Car Air conditioning system in cars are not covered by warranty and the system will need servicing from time to time when the gas starts to deplete and the air con system stops working properly, leaving the driver hot and sweaty.

For some reason motorists in the UK, where we have four seasons a year switch off their air con systems in the winter time. I do not think they know that you can run the air con and the car heater at the same time and also the smaller cars with the lower engine capacities will use much more fuel and so they switch the air con off.

Car Air conditioning system can dry out if not used

This result is that the system will dry out and start to damage some of the internal parts. Including small “O”, rings that act as seals within the air con system.

These are normally lubricated by the “PAG OIL” that circulates within the system when the air con is in use. The consequences of this are the refrigerant gas that is confined to the system . So,will leak out through the broken “O” ring. Causing it not to work.

To find where the leak is we have to re-gas the system . So,and try to find the leak with a special chemical .That we use to show us where the leak is and then repairing the fault.

In fact, this was the case just the other day. A customer called into to see us with a problem with his Car Air conditioning. In fact, it was not working at all.

The car was an older Volvo V40 and the customer always switched the air con off in winter. The car was five-year-old and so we started the process of re-gassing the system. So, in order that we could find out what the problem was.

Indeed, we used our special leak-detecting tool.

Finding out the place where the gas had leaked more or less straight away. The problem was due to his air con system drying out. Breaking one of the “O” ring seals.

This is a common thing with most cars. If the engines do not run then the hoses and other rubber parts will dry out and perish, because of no lubrication exactly the same as the air con system, the “PAG OIL” circulates in the system and oil all the parts when the system is running.

The particular “O” ring was located in the high-pressure pipe part of the condenser which had to be removed and a new one fitted. Here at Pellon Autocentre can repair most models of cars air con and heater systems in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire.

Many other things can go wrong with air con

but I will cover those when and if they happen in other blogs.

The new “O” ring was fitted and the driver drove away much happier with his nice cool Volvo.

Pellon Tyre and Auto-centre offer car and van servicing and repairs to all makes and models of vehicles. Significantly, we also sell tyres online from our website www.pellontyres.co.uk . Finally, by using the tyre selector and choosing your tyre size.

Air-conditioning in Halifax

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