Flashing Climate control?

[mpm1987]

Help!!

When I started up my car earlier, I looked down to the Climate control, to see all the digits on the display flashing, after about 10 seconds or so, they went back to normal,

Anybody know what this means??

Thanks,

Matt

 

[Nath.]

The gas pressure is low by the sounds of it

I think kwik Fit offer a money back garentee with work that they do on AC systems, might be worth a visit unless it's still under warrenty

 

[kriso]

Low gas or other climate control fault. I had this and had a perssure switch replaced under warranty.

 

[lc4geoff]

Help!!

When I started up my car earlier, I looked down to the Climate control, to see all the digits on the display flashing, after about 10 seconds or so, they went back to normal,

Anybody know what this means??

Thanks,

Matt

Mine is doing this, I assumed it was going through some sort of self- check process, guess i'll have to ring the stealers to-morrow then!!

 

[spyke85]

Mine is also doing this, was regassed back in March and a UV dye put in. No leaks have been detected and was throwing up a fault about the pressure switch. It's no longer under warranty though, so what sort of cost could it be to sort this? Might try and put in a good will claim as it's only 2 months out of warranty.

 

[mpm1987]

hmmm, its stopped doing it now, seems strange, may get it into the dealer to have a look at it

 

[kriso]

It will probably do it intermittently. Don't let the dealer fob you off. Mine told me it was normal when I first took it in. But I knew there was a fault as my previous car didn't do it and Vag-Com told me there was a fault!

 

[mpm1987]

what came up on vag com dude??

 

[kriso]

1 Fault Found:
00792 - A/C Pressure Switch (F129)

 

[mpm1987]

hmmmm, looks like a trip to the stealers soon then

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Mine went through a stage of doing it nearly everytime i turned the ignition on. I started to use the air con more and move the direction of the air more and it seems to have stopped it. I havent had it happen for AGES now (but it did happen ONCE last week - but that's the first time in literally months. An improvement on everytime i turned the ignition on.)

Try moving the air flow more and just "using" the climate control more. Not just letting it do all the work. IF that makes sense.

 

[mpm1987]

phoned up seat, booked it in, couldnt see me till the 9th of June though!!

The fans intermitantly work now aswell! grrrr

 

[mpm1987]

its going in tomorrow, they better not fob me off!!

 

[ubiquitous]

Any result on this? What was the cost? Mine's doing the same, I'm hoping it just needs regassing.

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Any result on this? What was the cost? Mine's doing the same, I'm hoping it just needs regassing.

Yep - found out what was causing mine last week. Slight leak in the air con system. Lift your bonnet and there will be air con charging points at the front left of the bay. Basically one of the nuts on the top there wasn't done up tight. Stopped doing it since. But it feels like it needs re-gassing now to make up for the lost air con gas it's lost over time.

 

[RUM4MO]

Yep - found out what was causing mine last week. Slight leak in the air con system. Lift your bonnet and there will be air con charging points at the front left of the bay. Basically one of the nuts on the top there wasn't done up tight. Stopped doing it since. But it feels like it needs re-gassing now to make up for the lost air con gas it's lost over time.

Hum these "nuts" are only meant to be dust covers - the valve assemblies below them should hold the pressure - if your getting it recharged I'd get them to recover the charge and pressure check the system using nitrogen and not just vac it to leak check it - that way these port(s) should leak and get replaced the when the system is recharged it should hold its charge for a lot longer.