'02 A6 AC stopped working

If your AC has a display, you will be able to pull the fault codes from it by pressing a combination of buttons. Unfortunately, I don't know what these will be for your model but a search on the internet might help you.

Good luck

Ian

Try pulling out and putting in the relais which is in the fuse box as well. It helped when mine went dead in Italy last month.

Ronald

First check that the AC compressor belt hasn't snapped - it'll be down the front of the engine.

Second engage the AC & then feel the AC lines - (usually aluminim looking things routed around the side of the engine bay) one should go cold pretty quickly & you should see condensation. If it does go cold then the AC is working & try changing your cabin pollen filter - that worked for me on an A4 a couple of months ago when we thought the AC had died.

If the line doesn't go cold then either the compressor/compressor clutch has packed in or you have a big leak & have lost all your AC fluid (in which case don't drive the thing too far). The fluid also acts as a lubricant & without it the compressor will sieze if it hasn't already.

rgds

Iain

Iain, If the AC system lost pressure, the low pressure switch would cut the power to the magnetic clutch and the pulley would just freewheel - part of recharging a system when it is under vacuum is bridging the low pressure switch to get the compressor to run. Jone, Chances are, if you turn the system full cold and you don't hear the occasional click of the clutch engaging on the compressor, and with the engine off you can turn the compressor by hand (you can do it so long as the clutch isn't welded to the pulley) will indicate that the AC has probably lost enough pressure to activate the LP switch. If you can find the location of the switch - it's a wired pressure transducer teed into an AC line - and bypass it (for a short time to avoid burnout) to make the clutch engage and run the system, then the system has lost some pressure. Cheers! Steve Sears

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I found these codes but they are for '90 model and may not be the same for my car.

Jone

Thanks, Ill give it a try tomorrow. I also noticed today that the electric radiator fan is running even though the car is cold. It should not do that should it? If some faulty sensor tells the computer the engine is hot, could it turn of the AC in an effort to keep the engine cold?

Jone

The fan will run all the time the AC on ( * )display is shown on the panel.. On our 97' model the fan ran although the LP switch had detected low pressure and disengaged the compressor (clutch open). So your problem most likely is a normal loss of refrigeration gas. Most workshops will fill up the system for less than 2' NKR.. The prosedure takes about an hour as it involves complete drainage, vacumtest and refill..

The vacumtest however will not always detect small leakages. So if you loose gas within a few weeks a check using tracing liquid and ultraviolet light will be necessary. Got this for free, as I filled twice in a month.. had to change one line due to pittings under a plastic shrink fit hose at a suspension point..

regards ottar t

Jone Tytlandsvik wrote: .

These codes seems to be the correct ones for my '96 A4 but not for my '02 A6.

Jone

On newer cars it's not a switch but some kind of pressure transducer. So you have to find out what resistance that will make the clutch engage. But my car is at the Audi garage now. Hope they can figure out what's wrong.

Jone