Thread: Family on summer holiday / hot weather / aircon stopped working

Greetings Rovers;

I'm currently on holidays up north with the family and we are experiencing temperatures above 35 degrees almost every day. The aircon was freezing cold on Sunday and Monday and then on Tuesday morning I could hear an odd noise (a bit like a loud diesel clatter) and the aircon's ability to cool the car started to reduce. After 2 hours later it was blowing hot air.

At 35 degrees our groceries almost melted on the hour's drive from the nearest supermarket. Anyway I digress.

Does anyone have good knowledge of how the FL2 aircon system works? I'm wondering if there is anything I can check in case it's something simple?

The nearest town has a Holden, Ford and Mitsubishi dealer who do mechanical repairs but I doubt they can fix Land Rover air conditioning.

Thanks,
Tweaksta

Originally Posted by Tweaksta

Greetings Rovers;

I'm currently on holidays up north with the family and we are experiencing temperatures above 35 degrees almost every day. The aircon was freezing cold on Sunday and Monday and then on Tuesday morning I could hear an odd noise (a bit like a loud diesel clatter) and the aircon's ability to cool the car started to reduce. After 2 hours later it was blowing hot air.

At 35 degrees our groceries almost melted on the hour's drive from the nearest supermarket. Anyway I digress.

Does anyone have good knowledge of how the FL2 aircon system works? I'm wondering if there is anything I can check in case it's something simple?

The nearest town has a Holden, Ford and Mitsubishi dealer who do mechanical repairs but I doubt they can fix Land Rover air conditioning.

Thanks,
Tweaksta

On ours the compressor is quite noisy, it also has had a leak in the system somewhere, I don't know if it's common though.

Whilst noisy it still works ok, but I'd say if we were clever we would replace the compressor before it eats itself.

You could probably check fairly easily if the
Clutch is working, other than that it needs to go to a tech.

At least they look fairly easy to work on.