MKIV_TDI
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- Joined
- Apr 8, 2012
- Location
- CT
- TDI
- 2002 Jetta TDI, 2002 Golf TDI, '89 Audi 200 Wagon Quattro 2.5 AEL TDI
My poor aunt just bought a 'new to her' 2002 NB with 160k miles and just as she was pulling into my driveway to show me her new car, the serpentine belt snapped!
In fact, she almost hit my mailbox because she lost power steering!
After a quick peek underneath, I looked at all the pulleys. Long story short, the AC pulley was totally seized. It took two hands and a tremendous amount of force to make it spin.
I removed the AC unit and it was some Chinese knockoff POS that the previous owner installed, and I was fortunate enough to have a genuine known working one one in my garage off of an engine with 100K miles.
After sending her to a garage to swap her condensers and refill, there's still no COLD air. Just barely "cool".
Then I came across this thread and I did the "AC On + Fan On + Ignition" test, and neither of the radiator fans are spinning.
I'm going to try and follow these steps to try and pinpoint her issue.
The fuses on top of the battery look great. No sign of damage/corrosion/melting. Her fuse #15 (red 10a) was burnt.
I'm going away this weekend, so hopefully it doesn't make anything worse till I can take it all apart...
Following up! So I cleaned both fans, and all speeds are up and running.
But still, there's got to be something with the compressor itself?
I can put my hand on the AC pipe and it's not cold.
My '03 TDI's pipe is ICE COLD to the touch after about 20 seconds of running, by comparison.
Not sure where to go from here...