Aircon problem?

Hi all.

The ac compressor on 2002 e46 has now started to growl on starting, atherwise it works well with plenty of cold air. On recycling the growl always starts again for about 5 secs and then stops. Car now 130 000 km.and this problem just started during last 5 000 km.

Apart from the short noise on the compressors starting there is no other indication of any problem.

Motorplan finished!, any ideas?

Peter

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Peter D
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I have a similar problem with the compressor on my E39. On mine though it's more of a light rattle. I think it's the clutch rather than the compressor itself. It can't be heard inside the car so I think I'll leave it, and think about fixing it if it gets worse. As the a/c is still working well, I'd suspect your growl is coming from the clutch as well. Mike.

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Mike G

I had similar on my E38 for about a year then in September the clutch unit disintegrated - cost 650GB pounds to fix If you can get a new compressor on eBay go for it or see if the clutch is available as a spare part.

I used Serk in the UK as they were 300 gb pounds cheaper than BMW

Sir Hugh of Bognor

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