First problem with the car: A/C

[67alecto]

On a roadtrip over the weekend, I experienced the "poor/intermittant" A/C that the TSB listed (24-004-05). All of a sudden the a/c stopped blowing cold air. Luckily, it was still fairly early in the day and had just reached 80 degrees.

I had it on manual cold air, not recirculated, and the fan on "Lo". I tried all sorts of things to wake it up - turned it off, blasted the heat for a few minutes, varied the temperature, auto settings, etc.

We stopped for lunch, and an hour later, when we came out, it was working fine.

I'm taking it in this afternoon for an oil change and the TSB.

[BrilliantBlackHemi]

When it does this, you must turn off the car all the way, then restart. Sometimes you gotta reboot things to get them out of endless loops, which is probably something that only occurs under very specific conditions. My car has done this once in 18K miles and 14 months.

[67alecto]

When it does this, you must turn off the car all the way, then restart. Sometimes you gotta reboot things to get them out of endless loops, which is probably something that only occurs under very specific conditions. My car has done this once in 18K miles and 14 months.

I remembered reading this when it happened to other people. I'm one of those drivers "we're not stopping unless it's time to stop" (i.e. food, gas, lodging), so I just drove for another hour until it was lunch time.

I knew that if I could shut the car off, it was supposed to reset. I also remembered someone suggesting the heat/setting/etc changes as a suggestion to get it unstuck.

[Dilliam]

You could have it a lot worse. My car does not want to start half the time. See thread titled Hard Starting and ESP

[GoofyGuy]

hell mines going in for the third time for a/c problems I have only had it 3 weeks.

[bigjim]

I remembered reading this when it happened to other people. I'm one of those drivers "we're not stopping unless it's time to stop" (i.e. food, gas, lodging), so I just drove for another hour until it was lunch time.

I knew that if I could shut the car off, it was supposed to reset. I also remembered someone suggesting the heat/setting/etc changes as a suggestion to get it unstuck.

I did find a rolling reset. Turn the key to start, all the sub-systems reboot. It does not try to run the starter. Stay in drive, cruise off or foot ready to take over as that reboots too, as does the sound system. I had my in-labor daughter-in-law on the way to the hospital at 100+ on 87 south getting a 200 mile trip done in a hurry. I didn't want to stop every 25 minutes when it started happening on my Magnum. Since the TSB it has not happened.