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Honda Accord aircon woes

Hi,

I have a Honda Accord 2.0 SE, 2001 model. My wife was driving the M25 today and the car started making a noise, which to cut a long story short, stopped when she switched the aircon off. (Which makes her a lot more mechanical than me!) With the aircon switched off the car runs as normal and she got home safely.

If the engine is idling and I switch the aircon on the engine starts to struggle, revs drop and become erratic, and an electrical smell can be clearly detected outside the car. As soon as I switch the aircon off the engine returns to normal.

A quick Google suggests the aircon compressor has failed. Does this sound right?

If so, questions:

- Is it better to get this sort of job done at my friendly local garage, where I have it serviced etc. who are quite good, but obviously not aircon or Honda specialists, at a Honda dealer, or at some sort of specialist aircon place, if such a thing exists?

- Is it going to break the bank, given that the car is probably only worth £4-5k (2001 model / 90k miles)?

All suggestions / advice welcome, though I fear a big bill!

TIA,

Pete

Reply to
Peter Boulton
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yes or you've got no gas in it and it's fried the pump you might have also need to check the ac system itself as if one of the pressure switches hasn't noticed the gas has run out you'll only have the same problem again with a new compressor

they aren't difficult to fix and any garage worth it's money will get you back on the road within a day or so

Reply to
dojj

Check out the Whatcar readers review section for the Honda CR-V diesel - same engine - and I think you will find people with the same problems?

Reply to
John Smith

Hmm.. couldn't see too much adverse there, assuming I found the right page:

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I should have mentioned, too, that my Accord is petrol, not diesel.

Pete

Reply to
Peter Boulton

That they're all equally clueless and think that A/C doesn't ever need checking?

Reply to
Conor

Hi Conor,

I expect you're right. I just assumed my friendly local garage will do what's necessary. Given the Honda's great build quality / reliability I can only assume they haven't? Do you think 90k miles / 5 years is too short a life for aircon?

Cheers,

Pete

Reply to
Peter Boulton

If it's never been topped up or checked then that's not bad.

Reply to
Duncan Wood

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