! My A/C blows white steam/vapor, HELP !

It's absolutely nothing to worry about. Just as in certain temperature/humidity conditions your fridge or freezer will emit steam when you open it, so it is with your car's A/C. You don't need to fix anything or change anything you're doing/not doing, just keep driving.

DS

What you're describing is the evaporator leaking refrigerant, something the 1st generation LH is known for. My 97 LHS started doing the same thing and it took about 3 weeks before enough refrigerant leaked out for the AC to blow warm. It cost me $3 for a seal when I had Chrysler fix it but that was only because it's a known problem and they covered it under a "secret" warranty.

Bob

It could also be water vapor. I don't know where the New Yorker was being driven, but it if was in a warm and humid locale, then it could be plain old water vapor. All of my cars have done this when the conditions were right.

Matt

Perfectly normal. The humidity and temp lined up just right to cause this.

Steve B.

Pfft. It is not. If there were a leak large enough to cause visible vapor, there would've been additional symptoms, odors, etc.

Correlation does not imply causality.

DS

Stats 101 from any basic text book. An excellent reminder :-)

My gut is refrigerant. This is exactly what happened to my 97 voyager just before I replaced the evaporator both times (Yes twice!).

Paul

Bob wrote:

"When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars . . . . "

Dan

Aquarius - whooo-whooo, Aquarious - dah dah dah dah - sympathy and understanding... and a bunch of other new age horse hockey... 8^)

Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")