CoolCar Air Conditioning Centres Look at the Whole Vehicle
Friday 29 July 2016, 12:38PM
By Media PA
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Catherine Tocker and Rodney Smith, from CoolCar Air Conditioning Centres, say the best way to deal with vehicle air conditioning issues is to take a holistic approach. This means taking into consideration the entire vehicle, which is full of working parts which often interconnect.
CoolCar Air Conditioning has centres in Hamilton and five areas of Auckland. They have a solid, long-standing reputation as vehicle air conditioning experts and three centres have won the MTA People’s Choice Awards in the three years the completion ran in the Auckland and Waikato.
Rodney Smith has been in the air conditioning business since the 1980s and knows the effects a dodgy air conditioning system can have on the rest of the car.
As an example of what can go wrong, Rodney recounts a recent incident of a vehicle which was brought into him at CoolCar with an air conditioning problem.
“The mechanic had overtightened the belt and the air-con pulley collapsed,” he says.
Rodney says the customer came in to CoolCar because they had heard a noise coming from their air conditioning unit.
“If they’d ignored that noise they’d have found themselves with no power steering, no alternator and no water pumping through the engine cooling system as well as no air-conditioning.”
“It’s dreadful if you’re driving down the road and all of a sudden the power steering cuts out. If you’re not ready for it, you’re off the road. When it’s a single belt system like this one sometimes the car won’t drive at all and you find yourself stuck where you are”.
“It was just a little noise and it’s turned into a thousand dollar headache for them.”
Catherine has another story:
“We had an Audi A4 in here one time,” she says, “and its air conditioning had stopped working. We found the reason the air-con had stopped was because the engine management computer turned it off as there was a vacuum leak to the brakes.
“The car uses vacuum to move the hot/cold flaps to blend the air to the desired temperature and vacuum assisted braking. The computer knew it didn’t have enough vacuum to do everything so it disabled the air conditioning to give as much vacuum to the brakes as possible. This car also had the typical air-conditioning leak we find in this model, a leaking evaporator under the dash.”
That’s why, say Rodney and Catherine, when you bring your car to a CoolCar Air Conditioning Centre, you’ll be in the hands of experts who know how the entire car works and can diagnose, repair and get to the heart of the problem.
Contact CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres Ltd:
399 Te Rapa Road, Te Rapa, Hamilton, 3200
PO Box 27145, Garnett Ave, Hamilton, 3257
Phone: 0508 266 5227
E-Mail: cath@coolcar.co.nz
Web: www.coolcar.co.nz
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