[rider60]

my replies are in bold in the following quote.

Originally Posted by gotzuk

hi rider60,

i don't think there is anything wrong with your air conditioning system. on the contrary it is performing as it should. your first issue was with the windows
frosting on the outside. to understand that phenomena think of a chilled beer being poured in a glass. the glass frosts on the outside, right? why? because the chilled beer inside the glass makes its temperature drop and this causes condensation on the glass. same thing happened in your car. the insides were chilled and the warm, humid weather outside caused condensation on the glass surface due the temperature difference. condensation happens all the time when you run the air conditioner. every air conditioning unit has a water outlet pipe to dispose of all the condensation caused due to the contact between air and the chilled cooling coil. start your air conditioner and look below the car, you will see a steady flow of water droplets.

okay this theory is just fine i agree with, it was not only from the outside also inside that this mist formed up remember this never happened for the first 40k kms of the car.

as for the mist blowing from the a/c vents, same reason holds true. ever been to a cold hill station, when you blow air from your mouth and if its really cold then it will give you the same effect. reason? warm, moist air from your body comes in contact with the cold and dry outside air and cools downs. this causes the water vapor content to convert into miniature droplets of water which we see as mist. same thing happened in your car. when you opened the door to get out of the car, the warm, moist air entered your cabin and that came in contact with the cold air from the a/c vents to give the mist effect. had you closed the doors and kept the a/c running, it would have disappeared in less than a minute.

now as a result of this mist the effect explained above took place, what i really want to know is why the hell is the water dripping from the blowers, why is the mist being spit like crazy, only after the last A/C service. like i said above i have been using the same settings for the past 2.5 years and have done 40k kms and this never surfaced before, i have traveled in all kinds of weather and never did this happen once, why now why now, did the guy mess up something while servicing?


thats what i strongly suspect atleast from my point of view? i mean did they remove any packings they are not suppose to, or the has the thermostat become weak or this happens as the A/C and car start aging?

the thing driving me nuts is after the service the ac is suppose to perform to its best and not cause problems like this that didnot exist before, and even after two days at two different HASS they failed to give me a proper technical explanation that is they could not diagnose the problem atleast according to me they couldnt, because this never happened for the first 40k kms, and neither i nor did they notice this in any of the new cars. and just said this is the weather, and it happens at times. which is too hard for me to digest. hope its clear now.

i don't know if have helped you understand or confused you even more, but be assured that your air conditioning system is not at fault,
its just mother nature with her bag of tricks..

cheers