VS Calais A/C

[ufo8mycow]

Have a 97 VS Calais, A/C works fine, gets down to the recommened temp. Can i make it any colder??? if i could make the thing make ice i would.

Oh BTW it has climate control.


Cheers.

[hako]

Air conditioners can only cool down to a certain temperature always above zero. If they go too cold they build up ice on the evaporator. Winter is just around the corner.

[Brett_jjj]

The AC system when working fine should be able to cool down the interior of the car to around 10-15 degrees cooler than the ambient (outside) temperature.

[ufo8mycow]

oh damm it...lol thanks anyways

[ParkwayDrv]

your climate control goes down to 16.0 thats pretty frosty, unless your a snowman?

[Brett_jjj]

your climate control goes down to 16.0 thats pretty frosty, unless your a snowman

If its 35-40 degrees outside,theres no way the AC system will cool down the inside to 16 degrees.

[moff_man]

if you press the blue cool button again you will get a C which means its just like normal a/c and will just keep getting cold,

i have had some a/c systems down to 1.0 deg c at the vent on flow through on speed 2 @ 50km/h

[hako]

if you press the blue cool button again you will get a C which means its just like normal a/c and will just keep getting cold,

i have had some a/c systems down to 1.0 deg c at the vent on flow through on speed 2 @ 50km/h

That's pretty efficient....best I've managed was +3.0 deg C but that was stationary on speed 2.

[jokerflingo]

if you press the blue cool button again you will get a C which means its just like normal a/c and will just keep getting cold,

i have had some a/c systems down to 1.0 deg c at the vent on flow through on speed 2 @ 50km/h

That's pretty efficient....best I've managed was +3.0 deg C but that was stationary on speed 2.

Its on

BTW, does it really matter what temperature it is? As long as its cold?

[Brett_jjj]

When my system was regassed it was showing 4 degrees at the AC vent outlet on the AC guys digital thermometer.Id like mine to go colder on very hot days too,I asked the AC guy
about it and he said the most they will cool down the whole car to is around 10-15 degrees below the ambient temp,as I mentioned before.

[moff_man]

i gas a/c systems an i can get them low, but this is stright after a long vacc and fresh gas, we get dry hot days here which is better than humid days due to the hunidity in the air.

i did my vl after a retro fit and used hi chill gas - which is crap mind you, and i got idling in the work shop below -1 deg c (yes thats a minus)

EDIT: it all depends on the ambent temp of the day, average 35 deg day here i can get them cold but about 35 they tend to struggle, as well as humid days

[hako]

Going back a few years, but at Charleville they used to put the vacuum pump on the unit overnight to suck the very last vestige of air out...then at 8am attach the R12 and feed it in till the vac pump connection felt cold, then stop. They'd also adust the thermo down that sat in the evaporator....this was all OK till you went to the coast and high humidities when the evap could not dump enough condensed moisture before freezing. (believe it or not but Kmart sold R12 refill kits)
Back a few years, Smiths put out an evaporative aircon using water to cool the car...OK in the west but dead loss on the coast.