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Old 08 July 2013, 12:00 PM
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Hi,

been using the aircon a little more with the nice weather and noticed something I would like to know if its normal or not.
I have been using the aircon a little over the winter to keep the system going, but dont know about previous owners. Iv had the car for about 18 months.

When aircon is ON, I can feel the clutch engaging and disengaging many times by the car loosing/regaining power. like when the AC clutch disengages, its like I prodded the gas pedal a little.

Now I understand this maybe normal.. but the AC engages and disengaged about every 3-4 seconds.
is this normal?? or does it need a re-gas or is there possibly a fault??

thank you
Old 08 July 2013, 08:57 PM
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Doesn't sound right to me. In colder weather mine engages/disengages every minute or so. In the hot weather it doesn't switch off at all. When the charge got low (I had a crack in the condenser) it wouldn't switch off at all as in hot weather. The difference here was no cold air in the cabin.
Old 08 July 2013, 09:32 PM
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Your gas is low, mine was doing the same. So I topped it up with some gas I get from halfords on Friday. Now it's perfect.

Had the Same problem with my last car which was a fiesta st.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/s...egoryId_165632
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