If you have an older car, you’re bound to have some component of your vehicle’s air conditioner system serviced or replaced.
Having the knowledge of how your vehicle’s a/c system works will help you understand what’s going on next time your car is getting a Santa Fe auto air conditioning repair or an El Paso auto air conditioning repair.
To understand your car’s a/c system, you first need to know the parts:
- Compressor – This part takes the refrigerant gas (like Freon or R-143a) and pressurizes it
- Condenser – This part takes hot refrigerant gas and condenses it into a liquid
- Evaporator – This part removes heat from the inside of your vehicle and cools it with the liquid refrigerant
These three parts work in tandem to ensure your vehicle stays cool while you’re driving. When the refrigerant gas is pressurized, its temperature rises from absorbing the heat around it. To cool the gas, it is run through the condenser to liquefy the gas into a cool liquid that your evaporator mixes with air and blows through your vehicle’s vents.
The refrigerant gas used in your vehicle’s cooling system has changed over the years. Mechanics today use R-143a, which is a more environmentally friendly coolant than its predecessor Freon, which was found to be harmful to the ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Common fixes to air conditioner problems involve recharging your vehicle’s refrigerant or replacing one of the three parts mentioned above.
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