[flo]

....I know Iknow.......I should have remembered to do this regularily-

But....

I guiltily remembered I hadn't run my air conditioning for weeks.....and weeks....and turned it on for a quick blast on the way home from Tescos: only for a few minutes!

When I turned the engine off it sounded like someone had installed a coffee percolator in the dashboard.
Have I knackered it ?
It was freshly charged and serviced last summer and always was a bit noisy anyway.

Should have been more mindful of the advice to run it occaisionally even in this perishing weather.

Perhaps it will 'settle down' with use; or am I being uncharacteristically optimistic?

shameful regards

flo

[PG12]

My FRP sounds does that as well - dunno what it is - seems to come from under the bonner O/S near the windscreen....

[pumapilot]

Turn the air-con off just before you get home, to give it time to shut down properly.

[Midnight Blue]

Oooooophs .......................... didn't realise you were supposed to switch it on regularly

[pumapilot]

Oooooophs .......................... didn't realise you were supposed to switch it on regularly.

It stops the joints drying out and then leaking, great for demisting side windows on a frosty morning too.

[Midnight Blue]

It stops the joints drying out and then leaking, great for demisting side windows on a frosty morning too.

Better start giving myself an icy blast then (very this weather )

[DJdi]

You don't need to have the air-con on cold to use during the winter.

30 mins a month is what is recommended in the manual.

[Nicola]

Something else on my to do list

[cgandps]

I haven't had mine on since the summer

[spenspuma]

You havent got a Teasmaid set up in your glovebox have you


After reading it in a magazine, i now test my Aircon every month thru winter for 30 minutes......it seems to be holding up fine at the minute...need to get it serviced soon tho i think...cos i bet it hasnt been done yet and the car is now 4 years old.

[Big Boy Al]

i dont get the whole hot air con thing.

i thought air con was meant to be too make the temperature colder????


allthough it does work really quickly at demisting the side windows

[PG12]

Slightly off topic

Does anybody have problems when switching off their aircon

I'll have mine on for 30 mins - turn the aircon button off but keep the fans blowing - suddenly all the windows mist up - this happens in both the cold and warm weather

I have the open the windows/keep the fans blowing until the moist air has been driven out of the car

I know it's not a temperture difference inside/outside the car because I can keep my fan heater on full blast in cold weather and this doesn't happen

[Big Boy Al]

yeah happens to me mate not sure why though??

[PG12]

Poor aircon IMO...

This post has been edited by PG12: 20 March 2006 - 11:08 AM

[Big Boy Al]

Mickey Mouse aircon IMO...

could be but it happens in my brothers clio and my works mondeo too.

must be something to do with the air con air that its cleaner or something.

strange one.

[Midnight Blue]

Tested mine yesterday and it's OK. I've never had air con on for 30 minutes - just switch it on and off as I need ... is that bad practise?

You have to switch it off in our Focus if you need to accelerate/overtake as the engine loses power big time with the air con running. Never had that problem with the Puma.

[Nicola]

Tested mine yesterday and it's OK. I've never had air con on for 30 minutes - just switch it on and off as I need ... is that bad practise?

You have to switch it off in our Focus if you need to accelerate/overtake as the engine loses power big time with the air con running. Never had that problem with the Puma.

I'm eactly the same. I never use the air con because i get so scared it will guzzle all my petrol! EEK!