Danny and Stephanie's Life » cars http://www.dannyandstephanie.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 What happens if you breath Freon??? http://www.dannyandstephanie.com/what-happens-if-you-breath-freon/ http://www.dannyandstephanie.com/what-happens-if-you-breath-freon/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:52:22 +0000 Stephanie http://www.dannyandstephanie.com/?p=58 The air conditioner in my car broke the other day.  It would work for a few minutes, then really hot air would pour out for 10 minutes or so, then it would work again, then it wouldn’t work for 20 minutes…very annoying!  Especially since it has been over 100 degrees this week and I have been driving all over the bay area doing errands.  So I figured I would take it in to the dealership in a couple weeks when things settled down a little bit and I had less to do.

 

 Then this morning plumes of what looked like smoke started coming out of the AC vents into the car!

 

Needless to say, I turned off all the air, AC and normal vent included.  Which made it REALLY hot!  I called the dealership and was able to drop it off this morning.  Which is great, but I was kind of bummed because it is no longer under warranty and I was hoping to wait until my new job started because I knew it wasn’t going to be cheap.

 

 Turns out, some regulator piece in the engine shorted out.  This caused pressure to build up, which blew the compressor, which in turn destroyed the entire AC system…which caused FREON to come pouring out of the vents!!!  Yeah…I knew it was some kind of chemical fume and not smoke lol.  Needless to say, it is NOT a cheap repair.

 

 BUT!!!  That one regulator piece has an 8 year warrenty on it, and because that was the source of the compressor and AC failure the whole repair is FREE!

 

 Man, I love when things work out like that! It totally made my day (and my check book!) happy!

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