Air conditioning

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The bloke that I bought the car from had no idea why it didn't work, and neither do I. I'm not bothered enough by it to pay someone to have a look at it but it would be nice to know why it doesn't work..

The bible has little in it other than telling you to take it to a specialist so I've been doing a bit of browsing on Range Rover forums and it all seems to be there and plugged in. The microswitch clicks but nothing happens, no relays clicking and the clutch doesn't engage..

Anyone got any pointers on the usual failures, is there a random fuse somewhere that I don't know about. I think that I have all of the right relays although I have seen a couple with jumped pins in the empty socket to power the fans, anything stand out to anyone?



I'm going to have a play with a multimeter and see if anything stands out but can't find any wiring schematics so it's all going to be guesswork. One of the many things that I'm wondering is whether having no gas in the system stops it from engaging the clutch as I have no idea if it's empty or not, I'd rather check all of the wiring etc before throwing £50 of gas at it

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Yeah that's what I was thinking, I'm fairly certain that it's not up to pressure but don't see much point in putting gas in it if that's not the problem. All of the pipes look ok and the condenser has a few stone chips in it but nothing that looks too bad, been thinking about running a live from the battery to the compressor to see if I can get the clutch to engage..

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Cool, any idea where it is and if there's a way to bypass it? I take it that this is it, can't remember seeing it anywhere..

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Cool, any idea where it is and if there's a way to bypass it? I take it that this is it, can't remember seeing it anywhere..

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Just found out that kwik fit are doing a free pressure test before they fill it up with gas, might try and find one on my way home from work this week