steelcity_ballin wrote:Because my less than 3 year old Mazda's AC just blows hot air now for reason unknown.
Are you still in your 3/36 bumper-to-bumper warranty window?
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steelcity_ballin wrote:Because my less than 3 year old Mazda's AC just blows hot air now for reason unknown.
setaG_lliB wrote:I find anything cooler than 75-76 °F (24 °C) inside to be too cold when it's a sweltering 98 °F (37 °C) with a 79 °F (26 °C) dew point outside.It managed to bring the inside temperature from 28 °C (82½ °F) down to 20 °C (68 °F) in around 40 minutes. Outside, it was a blistering 33 °C (91½ °F)!
CScottG wrote:The issue here is that the efficiency of a heat pump (or an air conditioner or any other refrigeration cycle) depends on the difference in temperatures (and therefore refrigerant boiling and condensing pressures) between the evaporator and the condenser. If the indoor and outdoor temperatures are close together, they can be very efficient. The further apart the temperatures get, the more energy the unit consumes for every BTU or calorie (units of heat energy) pumped from the cold side to the hot side.Note that as a "heat-pump" any heating that your unit will provide for you in the winter is subject to failure at freezing conditions (in point of fact though, it's not much more efficient on the heat-side than any other source of heating).
ludi wrote:steelcity_ballin wrote:Because my less than 3 year old Mazda's AC just blows hot air now for reason unknown.
Are you still in your 3/36 bumper-to-bumper warranty window?
Captain Ned wrote:Any south-facing windows?
steelcity_ballin wrote:3 years yes, but just eclipsed 42K miles so ultimately no. I'm really hoping it's just a freon recharge - though I really doubt it is unless it somehow all leaked. In the near 9 years I owned my **** old cobalt, I never had to do anything with it. It just ran until it didn't. Maybe I was lucky, but having already replaced the ignition coil in a 2016 car bought brand new, I'm more than annoyed.
steelcity_ballin wrote:For the interested, my car has a condenser pinhole leak. They refilled it but it'll cost me 900 for the part, plus labor to repair it. My trade in value is above what I owe on it, highly considering getting rid of it. Mazda has really left a bad taste in my mouth. My first, and likely last. A 2.5 year old car that is well taken car of it should not have the problems I've had thus far. Perhaps symptomatic of the planned obsolescence or throw-away culture we live in. Frustrating to be sure.
just brew it! wrote:If this is a pattern with them, then Mazda is going down. Maybe they're having a temporary "Toyota moment" (the dip in quality Toyota experienced about a decade ago as they were chasing volume over quality) and can recover.