Air Con Failure

[_Tone_]

Hi Guys

I am gonna speak with the dealer about this but two days ago my aircon wouldnt blow cool air. I meant to call the dealer but didnt get around to it, but today got in and the aircon button wouldnt go out. I tried all the tricks like pressing screen demister because that always puts on the aircon but nowt seemed to work!

So the 'econ' button is permanently lit - anyone know what is wrong with it?

This is the 2nd fault in as many weeks - my previous A3 had two new air con compressors in its 2 year life with us so there you go!

After 18 months of troublefree driving in the Porker this is not good and to be honest I am not too happy about it. Sometimes wonder if one fault leads to another....

Cheers

Tone

[kite]

Econ light staying on is nomally a sign of low gas.
I would get a regas and check for leaks.

[_Tone_]

How long does the gas last - the car was a Sep 07 so not a year old - all my previous VAG cars never lost gas?

Thanks

Tone

[kite]

As its still under warrenty get it into the dealers.
I've never had low gas problem,I run the aircon all the time and regass after 2 yrs, just a topup mind.

[PetrolDave]

Originally Posted by kite

I've never had low gas problem,I run the aircon all the time.

Same here.

[_Tone_]

Well I got the car back after it staying in overnight at the audi centre - got the call to pick it up at 12.14. 12.30 was in the dealer getting the keys - 3 mins later back in because the air con was still blowing hot air.

An hour later I'm told there is a leak in the system - they have chucked some dye in it and that I am to drive it aroud and retur the car on Tuesday!
I expain that I gotta go to York tuesday and Liverpool Wednesday! So I can bring it in on thursday - but I wont have any cool air con for the next few days because the gas will leak out by tomorrow!

Unfortunately they didnt have a spare car for me and I am loathed to drive the porker to York and Liverpool!

I know these things are mechanical but I've only had the car 7 weeks and its been in 3 times now - and I am already getting fed up! Is it me or do we all feel like this when the old motor is misbehaving?

So I am driving home and I've not got more then a mile and this two tone bleep kicks off inside the cabin - its bleeping like mad - a sound I have not heard from the car ever before - I get home and find out why its bleeping - then the dealer confirms my findings -

POP QUIZ - what do you think caused the car to bleep!?

At least my old cruise is working a treat!!

Cheers

Tone

[kite]

And dealers wonder why customers get upset.
To tell you your car is ready with the fault still there is cr#p service.
I bet they did a regass and didn't check for leaks until you took the car back, I would
expect a leak check to be done during the regass.
The machine we use holds the system in vacuum to check for leaks before regassing.

[PetrolDave]

Originally Posted by _Tone_

Well I got the car back after it staying in overnight at the audi centre - got the call to pick it up at 12.14. 12.30 was in the dealer getting the keys - 3 mins later back in because the air con was still blowing hot air.

An hour later I'm told there is a leak in the system - they have chucked some dye in it and that I am to drive it aroud and retur the car on Tuesday!
I expain that I gotta go to York tuesday and Liverpool Wednesday! So I can bring it in on thursday - but I wont have any cool air con for the next few days because the gas will leak out by tomorrow!

Unfortunately they didnt have a spare car for me and I am loathed to drive the porker to York and Liverpool!

I know these things are mechanical but I've only had the car 7 weeks and its been in 3 times now - and I am already getting fed up! Is it me or do we all feel like this when the old motor is misbehaving?

So I am driving home and I've not got more then a mile and this two tone bleep kicks off inside the cabin - its bleeping like mad - a sound I have not heard from the car ever before - I get home and find out why its bleeping - then the dealer confirms my findings -

POP QUIZ - what do you think caused the car to bleep!?

At least my old cruise is working a treat!!

Cheers

Tone

Name and shame the dealer - they don't have a clue how to fix problems or treat customers.

Beeping - anything showing on the DIS?

Must be getting close to the point where you reject the car as "not fit for purpose", might be worth investigating/taking advice?

[_Tone_]

They left the VAG Com device in the port!

When I got home I went to pop the bonnet and saw a blue light flashing as well as that stupid bleeping!

I was tempted to sell the fooking thing and claim my own compensation!

I have had the car two months now - do you really think its worth a "return" for the two faults? Usually Northampton Audi are quite good but it seems they lost the plot - it was so quiet there as well! I said to one of the service advisors - how quiet it was but I guess lots of people on holidays (god I wish I was!).

As of today I still have some gas in the system so my trip to York tomorrow may not be so bad.

Apart from this issue I must say I like the car! Just need some privacy glass and rear parking sensors fitted and it would be great!

Cheers

Tone

[PetrolDave]

Originally Posted by _Tone_

They left the VAG Com device in the port!

That's not a VAG-COM device, first VAG-COM is a lead and some SW on a PC (no silly thing with blue lights that beeps), and second dealers don't use VAG-COM (it's not an Audi piece of SW, it's written by a company called Ross Tech in the US) they use a thing called a VAS 5051/5052.

It sounds like the dealer left the adapter that they use to stop faulty radios blowing up their VAS in your car.