Thread: Baked the wife today in the 130

Ours seems to work quite well, although when on my own I rarely use it.
It does seem to be working pretty much all the time when its on, Im not sure if its supposed to slow down/speed up when its on (like our D1,D2 did) but I'm guessing whilst there's cool air blowing, SWMBO is happy enough.
Of course this gets totally stuffed up when I have a smoke and wind the window down,,

By most accounts its pretty decent.

Parents 110 puma certainly works perfectly well. Managed to keep cool in 40 degrees towing a camper trailer for 650km.

My 2010 Puma air-con is fine. Any outside temp and plenty of cold air. SWMBO's main complaint is the location of the vents so she ends up with a cold shoulder on one side and hot on the other. Also, you need to have it on face and foot level or the heat from the trans tunnel cooks your shins, or at least the one closest to the heat - so some heat shielding wouldn't go astray. But no complaints over the temp of the air - you seem to have a problem but it should be able to be rectified - is it under warranty?

Thanks for the replies, not under warranty unfortunately as it ticked over 120,000km today. I'll be putting it into the dealer for service (first service since buying it) to make sure all recalls are completed etc, so will get them to fix the aircon as well. Glad to hear they work when they're working, didn't seem right. Got to get rid of the heat from underneath though, will be looking for that heat shield stuff next week.

The heat from the exhaust and transmission can be excessive but the A/C works almost too well in our 2008 Defender. Done almost 80,000 and in 2009 it was up to 47C outside on part our trip across the top of WA and we were nice and cool.

Just wish those two rectangular vents were adjustable like the round ones.

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I find with mine (2012 130) the aircon is brilliant, on a 30 deg day I have it on "1" with the dial a couple of clicks towards the heat or it gets too cold. I went to a fire with it on the Sunday before Christmas (41 deg.) and it was beautifully cold on the way down there. I have found on occasion that if it's not on recycle on the hot days it can come through a bit warm at first but it still cools off after awhile.

What might be the problem with the original poster's aircon?

I've read dozens of puma aircon threads, both before and after buying our 110, and i think that rather a yes/no answer to the 'is it working correctly' question there are shades of grey. General consensus seems to be vaguely disappointing, but correct/comfortable temp is a subjective question.

I dont need blisteringly cold air like some, and on up to 30deg days find that the temp inside is fine, but on 40deg days and after a longer drive i find it pretty incredible that the air coming out from the vents is not colder than it is? I mean, put your hand up against the vent, before the air has had a chance to be warmed by the heat from the tunnel... its just not that cold.

Mine still has a year of warranty left... and like the OP, what should i be asking LR to check for? Or should I just accept that the system is a bit crap and LR will tell me that nothing is wrong?