Why would you need to use Air-Con for heat? Surely you just use the heater/blower? Or am I just being stupid?!

Just so that you can run it, also some cars have it set on as standard, remember someone moaning about it as they kept forgetting to turn it off and it was running their MPG

if the pump doesnt click it is more than likely to be lack of gas, they have pressure sensors in them so when there is no pressure it wont give a feed to the clutch to engage it the click noise you here, an easy way to find out if you have gas is take a torx scredriver ( best as it is a flat end) find the filling caps take one off then inside its a trye valve, poke the screw driver in and give it a light tap, this will let a little bit of gas out, it wont hurt your hand etc, but it will be very cold, if it isnt cold then you only have air inside. which means you need a regas.

hope this helps!

Ah right.

ok, well i am not sure if this is it, but i turned my car off at work today and listened to the engine and after a few seconds it makes a click noise as if something has turned off. is this the air con? I have it booked in for a regas saturday anyway now, and also a before warranty expires check. Good service that i thought from Benfield just seeing if anything needs doing in warranty before it expires.

No thats something else, can't remember what it is now, minds gone blank

injectors?

well all done now and my air con as cold as you like shame its cold outside now haha. Got to go back in couple of weeks to see if there are any leaks. They are going to replace my dodgy cd player too in warranty - they best not give me the new MP3 one instead. I want my 6CD changer still.

Guys, just spoke to Ford and seems air con recharges are covered under warranty until the first service, not after.


On this note I will be looking to recharge it myself. Anybody tell me how to do it? I have recharged other vehicles before, but I need to locate the high pressure nozzle on the Fiesta. I believe the low pressure nozzle is just on top of the front grill, but where is the high pressure side?

Thanks.

one is on top of the grill like you said and the other is underneath the drivers headlamp on the reciever

Just an update on this, after they put the dye in, it turns out i need a new condensor, so they will be doing that under warranty and giving me my £55 back. Woop woop.

Sooner the better hey, roasting hot 2day, well it is in Kent anyway